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The Hill of the French from the Year of the French taken by French from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded February 2026
An ancient Abbey, abandoned and alone from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2026
Not My Hotel, I'm staying at the Moy! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded August 2025
Reflections on times past from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2025
Is it Derek on the derrick, or Windy Wendy on the windlass? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2023
Not a Banshee in sight from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2023
The Leaning Castle of Rosturk from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded February 2023
Ballinrobe rush hour... from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2023
All hands on deck at Achill Railway station. from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded September 2022
Achill tragedy remembered. from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded July 2021
The lady's name was Ivy from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2021
Louisburgh through the fields from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded October 2019
Lawn, Castlebar, Co. Mayo from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded August 2018
An hotel, omnibus, loiterers and ... a chicken! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2018
Culchies on track for... from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2018

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Ice House, Ballina, Co. Mayo

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

1 older comment, and then…
B-59 said:
Photo from 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/cianginty/2482397256/
beachcomber australia said:
A little history - " ... Over 100 years ago, this historic building was a busy centre of enterprise exporting 40,000 salmon to Scotland annually. Throughout those guaranteed (pre-global warming) freezing winter days farmers from all over the area would pack tons of snow onto their horses and carts and draw them down in convoy to the Ice House. The ice would then be pushed down through an opening in the ground floor to the basement – at river level – which was known as Iceland. The aperture has been maintained in the renovated building and now looks down into the atmospheric restaurant. Overlooking the River Moy and its meandering and breathtaking estuary, the Ice House was built almost a decade before the Great Famine, in 1836, as the home of the fishery managers. It was composed of the living quarters, an ice store, workshop and boathouse for the fishery boats. ... " From - www.mayonews.ie/archive/3-news-features/3241-ice-house
beachcomber australia said:
Exporting salmon to Scotland sounds a bit coals to Newcastle.
Niall McAuley said:
NIAH 6" link shows Salmon Fishery Ice Ho.
Niall McAuley said:
From the NIAH link, this is after 1868: A house reconstructed by Mary Anne Lowther Little (d. 1868) widely accepted as a particularly important component of the domestic built heritage of the outskirts of Ballina with the architectural value of the composition, one retaining the vaulted footings of a "Salmon Fishery Ice House" marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1838; published 1839), confirmed by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a somewhat featureless doorcase; the uniform or near-uniform proportions of the openings on each floor with those openings showing pretty cast-iron balconettes; and the miniature gablets embellishing a high pitched oversailing roofline.

The lady's name was Ivy

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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beachcomber australia said:
Ivy's (or more properly Mrs Creeper's ?) hotel was larger when viewed from the right - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000336124 Can't find it on google maps - HELP !
Niall McAuley said:
Per the 25", this is as close as I can get - the Hotel was in the trees, the hillside is to our right. The 1930s Cassini map does not mark it as a Hotel, it marks a Doolough House. There are no houses at all on the 1830s 6".
beachcomber australia said:
Much less Ivy Creeper on another different visit - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316495
Suck Diesel said:
Are we sure this is Co. Galway, not one of the several other lakes of the same name?
Niall McAuley said:
It is in Mayo.

Go west young man, go west!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

22 older comments, and then…
domenico milella said:
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
Niall McAuley said:
The OSI 25" map at GeoHive has the unusual annotation French landed here in 1798.
Niall McAuley said:
Streetview shows the coastguard cottages are still there, but a lot of work on piers and jetties has happened since todays image.
Niall McAuley said:
NIAH lets us down today.
derangedlemur said:
Niall McAuley It's wrong, well. He landed there between ca. 1865-1914.