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fabulous green house and kitchen garden!!

Archiseek has a brief history, but won't let me copy'n'paste ...
www.archiseek.com/1870-an-grianan-newtown-house-termonfec...

GoogleMapsSatellite (not 3D) - maps.app.goo.gl/UaXEeBsnakqYsuJk6

Admiring the huge greenhouses which seems to have gone.

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Archiseek (via Windows Snipping Tool) -

"Originally built in the 1780s by the McClintock family and called Newtown House. In 1852 it was sold to a Drogheda merchant and shipbuilder called Ralph Smyth who extended it around 1870. It was redesigned with two elevations of similar architectural merit, both with fine dressed limestone porticos giving it an overall Italianate appearance. The house as it survives today is Smith's work, but a portion of the McClintock building survives at the east end of the south front.

In the early 1920's it was bought by Helen Lentaigne, who allowed the newly constituted Irish Countrywomen's Association to use Newtown House as a venue for one of the first ICA Summer Schools during the 1930's. In July 1945 Mrs Lentaigne sold Newtown House to the Irish Tourist
Board, who renovated the premises and opened the house as Tearman Hotel.

The seeds of An Grianan, were sown in 1952, when Muriel Gahan of the ICA proposed the idea for a residential college for social and educational purposes to Dr Morris, of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of America, through a chance introduction. It was purchased and entrusted for the benefit of the people of Ireland. In October 1954 it was officially opened by the then President of Ireland Sean T O'Kelly."

25" OS - Newtown House

[ Admires Dún Laoghaire Micheál's Snipping Tool ! ]

P.S. Fógra: Our curator of photographs here at the National Library, Elizabeth Kirwan, is looking for some help. She hopes to identify the women in this Liberty Hall photograph, and to establish the date it was taken. It's been languishing rather unloved here for almost 13 years. So it'd be great if some of ye could help us revisit it, once you've finished with today's photograph, of course!

The fourth son, Vincent James O'Connell, was an architect ... Architect and engineer, of Earl Street, Dundalk, active from the first decade of the twentienth century until 1950 or later. Vincent O' Connell, fourth son of Henry O'Connell, grocer, of Dundalk, and his wife, Mary, was born in Co. Louth in 1882 or 1883. He became a pupil in the office of of HAGUE & amp; MCNAMARA in Dublin(1) before setting up in practice in Earl Street, Dundalk, in 1906 or earlier. He was appointed engineer to the Newry Port and Harbour Trust in 1910 in succession to JAMES BARTON (2) and had opened a branch office in Newry by the autumn of 1911.(3) He married after 1911, when, according to the 1911 census, he was still living as a bachelor with his parents in Earl Street, Dundalk. By 1944 he had taken a son into partnership, practising as V.J. O'Connell & Son. ... See - www.dia.ie/architects/view/4107/O%27CONNELL-VINCENTJAMES

Still writ large in Earl Street (but not matching the photo) ... H. O'CONNELL & Co. WHOLESALE TEA WAREHOUSE. HAM & BACON STORE see - maps.app.goo.gl/BrRxhQrFBjJwKVKK7

Building is now occupied by the Dundalk Leader. maps.app.goo.gl/qQc3PKQvNxnCijf97

Suck Diesel Any info on that IWWU photo you have, will be very gratefully received. But could you comment under that photo, rather than here, so all the information stays together?

Horse tramway beside road?

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East Coast Scotland.....20oC and rain !
Possibly still early in the day as there are more lookers than "dookers"

Foxglove Had to look up dookers. Tagging it now, as they'll be along later, I'm sure.

Suck Diesel Well spotted. And not in evidence in any other of our Warrenpoint photos on this channel.

Re. POV - Mr French / Lawrence was up in one of these - maps.app.goo.gl