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Tall hats and tall columns at Bellamont Forest

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    I wonder if this is them ?

    " ... In 1875 the house was acquired by Edward Smith for a sum of £145,000. Smith had made a fortune from trading coal on the Newry to Liverpool route and married an Isabella Cullen of Liverpool. He later became High Sheriff of Cavan in 1878.
    Later his son Major Edward Patrick Dorman Smith became High Sheriff of Cavan in 1897 and 1898 after marrying Amy Patterson in 1894. ... ..."

    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamont_House

    Popcorn time - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFuJFo7sAE
  • beachcomber australia said:
    No! They are Cootes ! Image 2 has a 13 September 1870 date.
    (13 September 1870 was a Tuesday)
  • Mike Grimes said:
    beachcomber australia I wonder about the gentleman seated to the left of the door wearing the pale hat. Is it the same hat as the one that is hanging on the hatstand in the Wikipedia photo of the billiard room taken c1870?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Mike Grimes Likely! The billiard room is Image 10 in the album.

    Lord Belmont has the family sorted, but a bit vague around 1870 -
    lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2013/08/bellamo...

    Including the fabulous 1st Earl of Bellamont KB -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Google maps link

    NIAH link

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home!

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There's a hole in the roof, and the rain's coming through

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    the Catalogue says View of the house where Edgar Allen Poe grandparents lived, Toumeregan & Kildallon, Co. Cavan.

    Kildallan and Tomregan are both townlands in Cavan, but some distance (20km) apart.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Wikipedia Their grandfather, David Poe, had emigrated from County Cavan, Ireland, around 1750., references a book Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (1941):

    Dismissing as without foundation the mythical tales which connect Edgar Poe with noble families of Europe, it seems certain that his great-great-grandfather was David Poe, a tenant-farmer in Dring, in the parish of Kildallon and County Cavan, Ireland, who died in 1742. David's son, John Poe, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1749 or 1750,(29) having married Jane McBride, daughter, it is [page 14:] possible, though not certain, of a clergyman, Reverend Robert McBride, and sister of an admiral of the Blue, John McBride. After living for a time in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, John Poe moved to Baltimore, where he died in 1756.

    John's eldest son, David, had been born in Ireland in 1742 or 1743. He carried on his business of making spinning wheels and clock reels, on Market Street in Baltimore from 1775.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Dring townland is next to Kildallan, and I count maybe 10 possible houses on the 1830s 6", although that is 80 years after David Poe left.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Having eyeballed the Google aerial view of Dring, I do not think this ruin is still there. (Of course, it may never have been in the actual townland marked as Dring.)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    More Googling: "David Poe's will, dated August 25, 1742, described him as of 'Dring Parish of Kildallon, County Cavan, Farmer. In the old vestry book of Kildallon, he is mentioned as the overseer of roads in the parish. The ruin is of a substantial house, and Poe sounds like a Big Cheese, perhaps this is the building marked as Dring Ho. which was here: Streetview