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Taken in 1907

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Hooray for Megazoom again !

Yizzir eyes are better than mine if yiz are reading those posters! Excursion Dublin Exhibition From Newcastle West ... TICKETS

On the same day: We almost give boots away!

over/under.

John is using the calm fine conditions to hang shirts out on the washing line. I remember this fort from a visit many years ago. very casual leg over for the cox in the gondola ...

the NLI sleuths must be doing Xmas shopping, hopefully this pretty scene of Limerick won't go into the "less than five comments" folder !

Hello, Morning Mary! If you're still taking questions although it's afternoon, I'm intrigued by the Ganlow. Is that a local name for it?

Carol Maddock I was rushing out to a doctors appointment and did not get a chance to look things up until now! I never saw the name written until today and though all the boat users I know called it a "ganlow" apparently the correct spelling is "Gandalow" There were two boats peculiar to the Limerick waters, the Gandalow and the "Angling Cot". The latter was a narrow flat bottomed boat with a sharp end at bow and stern or even front and back which was mainly used in the calmer waters of the Abbey River and above the tide level. The Ganlow (Gandalow) was a much stronger flat bottomed clinker built wooden boat always with a bottom covered in black pitch. When I was a lass there was always several of them on the beach in front of the Strand Barracks below the Curragower. The fishermen lived mainly in nearby Thomondgate which is on the Clare (near) side of the bridge in today's image. They used nets for their fishing and they would go down river on the ebb tide and return on the flowing tide with their catch. As often as not there was a lot of rowing done and it was a really hard grind. I found this in the stream one of our occasional contributors

I'm getting in early on this one as I am oh so familiar with the scene. I thought I would be buried just a short distance to the left of this church but 50 years in Dublin have changed that! The church and area were badly dilapidated and vandalised but recent work has been done to correct that and the cemetery has been rejuvenated (?), renovated, restored and researched. There is now an excellent website detailing those who have been interred here including both sides of my family. See mountsaintlawrence.limerick.ie/

Swordscookie You can take the man out of Limerick, but not the Limerick out of the man!! beachcomber australia We need a Limerick about Limerick!!

Congratulation for your beautiful Album

Déja vu for the 2nd day running, it's like ... déja vu or something.

Creating a limerick a day Should help keep dementia away Finding words that will rhyme And sound right each time Can be… What’d I say?