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... also a beautiful gothic window

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O Mac The exact spot the nephews are standing on the street is in this streetview

The 25" does not capture this kink in the shopfronts.

Here they are in the 1911 census, except there are 3 sisters named Julia, Hannah and Norah.

Thomas Philips' 1685 map of Cork:

Within the City Walls (The Core Spine)The Main Spine (North & South Main Street): The central vertical street running straight through the heart of the walled oval, connecting the north and south sides of the river.Christ Church (Holy Trinity): Located off the main street inside the southern portion of the walls, noted as a principal medieval parish church.St. Peter’s Church: Situated toward the northern portion within the walls.The Central Bridge / Drawbridges: Splitting the central town into two distinct marshy sections.The Gates: North Gate Bridge and South Gate Bridge, controlling access into the fortified center from the suburbs.Outside the City Walls (Suburbs & Religious Houses)St. Fin Barre's Cathedral (St. Barry's): The large labeled church visible on the elevated ground to the south-west (left side of the map).Elizabeth Fort: The star-shaped, bastioned fort visible just north of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, overlooking the south channel approach.St. Francis Abbey: Labeled in the northern suburb across the river channel (top-right area).The Dominican Abbey / Abbey Isle: Located near Crosses Green on the south-west channels.

North is to the right. GoogleMapsSatellite, showing most of the buildings on the old map - www.google.com

[Aside] 1685 was an important year for music. Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti were all born in 1685. www.bachsocietybrasil.com

Wikipedia has an older 1545 map showing how soggy it was ...
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cork

Edit - that Wiki page also has a 1714 map which marks the 'rectangular green area' as "Bowling Green".

What a beautiful map.

Better known as Crookhaven Lighthouse www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20914...

... Towards the west end of the peninsula is a terrace of houses built in 1907 as a coastguard station, now converted to private holiday accommodation; this replaced an earlier range of buildings erected in the early 19th century, when Crookhaven was a centre both for legitimate coastal shipping and for smuggling activity. ...

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Island_(Ireland)

I think it is Mary Poppins on the rocks; she breezed in with a change of the wind.

via Ken Dowdall The scaffolding surrounds a light keepers house, built 1896 www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20914...

... Every year keepers had to paint the lantern inside and out, the gallery, gates, iron fences, gutters and downpipes, oil tanks and flagstaffs. The annual whitewashing, cleaning out of “ashpits, cesspools, etc” was to be carried out as soon as possible after the 1st of April. The cottage also had to be maintained in ship-shape condition as unannounced inspections were regular as well as the annual Commissioners’ inspection. The keepers were provided with an allowance of eight tons of Scotch coal or seven tons of English coal every year. The keeper here could have expected to earn 3 shillings per day in 1905. ... From - crookhavenlighthouse.ie/about-crookhaven-lighthouse/

I'd be thinking the the lady should be destined for the Royal College of Surgeons, either to repair her bones or to put her under Bergin's microscope to see if she's been photoshopped! Although not clear to us there may be path which runs down the left of picture and even to the rocks below. In all events any woman living here would surely be confident of her way around.