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Mick McQuaid's Cabin, Connemara, Co. Galway

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It's on "L[ake] Shindillagh" according to this - www.postcardsireland.com/postcard/through-green-hills-eri...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    via Irish Cottage Prints Irish Cottage Prints on Flickr "Mick McQuaid was a notorious poitín distiller of the last century. This cabin is typical of the poitín makers’ home. The cabin has no windows – this may be because it was originally built when there was a tax levied according to the number of windows in a house."
  • B-59 said:
    Aka Mick McQuaid’s Castle, L. Shindillagh "The caption refers to a contemporary cartoon character - Mick McQuaid - whose exploits featured in a popular periodical called the Shamrock, from the 1860s to the early twentieth century." www.omnia.ie/index.php?navigation_function=2&navigati...
  • B-59 said:
    "In the 1880's a popular magazine named 'The Shamrock' featured a serial written by a Colonel Lynam about imaginary conversations between an optimist, Mick McQuaid, and a pessimist, Terry Garrity. During these philosophical conversations, Mick often drew inspiration from a pipeful of Carroll's tobacco. Consequently, in 1889, the company launched one of its most successful tobaccos, Mick McQuaid." pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/pj-carroll-dundalk-ireland... (Seems to be an early case of product placement)
  • B-59 said:
    It's apparently here: goo.gl/maps/gKWjmtRNzRU2

Coastline, Railway line and curved lines in Recess

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 26 older comments, and then…
  • Domhnall Sioradáin said:
    The line opened on 1 July 1895 and was closed on 29 April 1935. It's not the sea, it's Glendollagh lough.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Previous visit with Mr Eason - hotel built 1898 -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I see construction in the background - is that the station going up? The station opened on 01.07.1896 1897 Nature:'The Recess hotel is now far advanced. The hotel in the Eason has a visible 1898 in the brickwork.
  • Samuel Collazo said:
    Excellent!!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    From wikipedia: The Railway built an hotel at the station at Recess.[7], with a one platform halt specifically for the hotel in 1902 some 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the main Recess station towards Maam Cross and Galway. So I think this is between the 1898 hotel opening and the 1902 Hotel platform. Definitely before this 1906 image at wikipedia

Down the old bog road

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...
  • John A. Coffey said:
    Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley John A. Coffey CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.
  • Robin Parkes said:
    It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.