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Laying the foundations for a new pier. But where?

A marriage of the Eras in County Galway

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Still 'hitched' in 2014, via MikeofDorset

    Edit - photo used in the Wiki article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymore_Castle
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The NIAH says Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1810, facing north, having bowed entrance bay, two-bay side elevations, slightly recessed single-bay single-storey addition to east end, and multiple-bay two- and three-storey additions to rear elevation, built onto front of four-storey tower house of c.1585, and makes a passing reference to the "Seymour mausoleum" nearby.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    On the record for the Mausoleum, it says The family mausoleum of the Seymours, who acquired Ballymore Castle and its lands around 1700 and remained there until the early twentieth century, so the Seymours probably owned the castle at the time of this pic.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There seems to be several Ballymore Castles. I don't think this is today's Galway one -
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000622471 (1823)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Census for 1901 shows a house belonging to a WG Seymour in the townland, but it is vacant.

Down the old bog road

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  • 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.