driedfish

Buildings by sea. Men and women, fish, barrels, pile of salt. Smoking of salting of fish.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 13 older comments, and then…
• Swordscookie said:

  This is a feast for the eyes with all that is going on here! The sorting by the men and women closest to the camera, under the eye of the overseer, is clearly dried fish. The barrels are so numerous it has to have been a large fishing port. Off in the distance a hulk seems to be beached on the far shore of the river/inlet! Terrific image.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Valentia according to this photo. "Barrels of pickled mackerel at the Slate Yard, Knightsown, awaiting shipment to the United States at the turn of the century". is the description underneath.

• DannyM8 said:

  Swordscookie Dried or smoked?

• Niall McAuley said:

  See this General view of the harbour at Knight's town, i can't see where this fits at all.

• derangedlemur said:

  Niall McAuley Looking at the map, (maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,442629,577319,12,9), you can't get the googlemobile into the right spot. It's the other side of the Royal Pier Bar. (Also, it's not like you not to be reaching straight for the 25" - was it broken earlier?)