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Google Streetview and OS 25" links.

Buaidh agus Treise chum Connortha na Gaeilge something-or-other? Victory and Strength to who exactly?

In the 1901 census, we have Mary Sheehan of the Drapery on the left of shot. She's still there in 1911.

I'm not to surprised that this image drew little reaction when it was last posted as in my view it is possibly the work of a photographer in training or an amateur, as it contains many basic flaws in its composition. The goat has it's back to the camera, other than the scaffolding which Puck is standing on there is little foreground detail other than two children shading their eyes from a very bright sun which is lighting the left hand side of the street while the right hand side is partly in shade and a market stall obscures a lot of the detail in the lower left hand side while the banners going to the tower should be read from the other side. Shooting from the other side of the tower would have made a much better picture and a more experienced photographer would have waited until the sun was at a different angle and taken the shot from further down the street. An Ideal location would have been placing the camera on a window sill on one of the buildings further down the street. Why a window sill? plate cameras of the type used at this time were heavy bulky and usually mounted on a wooden tripod, film speeds were slow and even in bright sunlight as in this image shutter speeds could be down to about 1/10 (one tenth) of a second which would make it impossible to hand hold the camera also focusing and viewing was done on the back of the camera (no viewfinder) under a black cloth. This shot would be the type of test that an apprentice would be sent out to photograph to see what they would return with, so as their employer could evaluate their camera craft. On reflection, I think what we are looking at here is an apprentice's work piece, simular to furniture makers apprentices making miniature pieces, FYI I have worked as a photographer for 25 years mostly shooting B&W, still shooting but in a non professional capacity.

Further down on the left, Daniel Hayes, baker. Still listed as a baker in 1911, although he's 76 by then, Holy crap! In 1911 his wife Ellen is shown as having 15 children born, 4 living! She would have been born in 1841, and married in 1863 aged 22.

It's a bit more colourful these days: maps.google.ie/?ll=52.138756,-8.27543&spn=0.008745,0....

derangedlemur It certainly is - looks gorgeous!

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,581152,598449,7,9

David Hayes, Merchant: 58 in 1901. It's hard to gauge his age from this picture though.

William Eager - 46, Thomas Mannix - 58, John Quinlan - 24. They're all shopkeepery sort of ages. I'd say this is quite close to the turn of the century. Quinlan can't have been in business much before this (Unless he inherited the business from another J, I suppose - his mother's still on the premises as head of family).

Previously:

It was taken before 1908 ...see date on building www.google.ie/maps/@52.1381891,-8.2752926,3a,53.4y,102.73...

I think it is before the 1899 provincial Bank, too, now the AIB.

I think this image pre-dates the L_ROY_00062 image posted by Sharon Corbet - Note the differences in the facade of the large 12-bay block at the top of the square. In this image, the facade is fairly plain and the two bays at either end have old 6-over-6 Georgian sashes. In L_ROY_00062, the windows are all updated to one-pane-per sash, plaster hood mouldings have been placed over the windows in the central 4 bays and the 4 bays on the right, and a balustrade has been installed on top of the building at the right - that's still there (see Streetview provided by O Mac). Mannix's shop in the older image is replaced by O'Brien's in L_ROY_00062.

On the far side of the square at right, we see Mannix and Smith, in Sharon's shot above we saw O'Brien and Eager. I think this one is earlier...