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I'm afraid I'm no help here, I've scanned the crowd looking for similar shawls but few tartan and no faces that seem to resemble the other ladies. There is a brief reference to the market in the Galway Advertiser as in www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/35364 but not sure if it was the same photograph as that does not come up.

nice shot

If you went there today (especially as the schools are off) you'd probably find some kids drinking flagons and being sick.

I love the little group on the right! Such great details!! (but no bicycles! :( )

Swordscookie No help?! That's a brilliant link! If it wasn't this photo that the Galway Advertiser was describing, then it was one that's almost the same...

I think Mr O'Dea was on the bridge ... Bridgeview - goo.gl/maps/b8Bry4Z5oZYMkx1r8

28 September 1971 was a Tuesday ...

re. water levels - "September [1971] was dry, warm and sunny and although drying conditions were rather poor at times because of fog and heavy dew, it was, by and large, a good month for the harvesting of grain crops. Rainfall was well below normal everywhere and in most places was less than 50% of the September average. In parts of Kerry it was the driest September over 40 years and in north Donegal where the rainfall was only 2% of normal, it was the driest September since 1933 ... etc" From - edepositireland.ie/bitstream/handle/2262/71030/Agromet%20... via www.met.ie/education/publications/agrometeorological-bull...

beachcomber australia The Salmon Weir bridge, near the Cathedral.

Sometimes Flickr is amazing! In 2011 with a rainbow, via Kevin