dairy

Pretty young - a yearling or first calf heifer

This also reminds me of being at home. Where I am from there are a lot of cows. People raise cows. What is interesting about this picture is that by just looking at it you don't know this picture was taken in the 1940's like the other pictures do. If you weren't told then you probably wouldn't know.

Beef cattle are fleshed out better - this breed is a milk cow, which tend to look thinner and boney. The pasture looks to be under continuous grazing, not uncommon for the 1940's - you can tell by how cropped most of the pasture looks, with a clump of weeds they won't touch is much higher. Guernsey are known for being very docile and easy to raise.

Baker's Lane/Road.......It's unrecognizable today. The only building I can see that still exists is that two story house with the three windows over a window.(dispensary on Osi ) Street view OSI (1903)

Here is a 1907 Guy's, it lists 3 dairies in Charleville, none of them called Meadowvale.

It's also marked as the 'Maypole Dairy' on the 1903 map.

Further down that page, we see Butter Exporters including Maypole Dairy Company, the name for this building on the OSI 25"

Meadowvale is in the 1910 Guys!

I'm interested by the 'T. Clarke' name over the shop - is it Tom Clarke of Rising fame or just a coincidence? It's interested to see so many well-dressed women standing around, so I suspect that's some sort of after-event. My mother is from Bray and she tells me that Kevin Barry's mother lived there and when she was a child she would see her walking around the town, and people were always doffing their hats to her and she was considered a tragic figure. I think that might have been as last as the 1960s. Had he lived Kevin Barry would undoubtedly have reached a ripe old age, although he might have not been very well known. He died very young.

My grandfather used to sing this after a few glasses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysH86MMwPs8&list=RDysH86MMwPs8

I think the big door at right may be Monk's bakery on Church Street/North king Street?

Patrick Monk’s Bakery at 79-80 Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street, Dublin,

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