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Ordnance Survey 6" and 25" maps show a ferry running across the lake from the mouth of the river just downstream from Virginia: 25" map: arcg.is/qL58D0 Lots of info in a Facebook post here: www.facebook.com/Muntcomm/posts/information-on-the-lough-...

I see the Landing Stage on the 25", but can't get there with streetview. Here is a Bing aerial view. The 25" marks the ferry route, North-South across Lough Ramor. Streetview not great from the Southern side either. There's feck all on the southern shore, I can't imagine this was a commercial ferry, maybe for tourists?

Some history and a map of Lough Ramor ferry. www.facebook.com/Muntcomm/posts/information-on-the-lough-... It also includes names of ferrymen.

arcg.is/nmCXv on the 25"

From a random cached Facebook page (large grain of salt needed): However, in the 1821 Census, Michael Flinn from Coronagh, Munterconnaught was listed as the “ferryman of Lough Ramor”.​ ... We do know that when the land on which the town of Virginia is built was assigned to Captain John Ridgeway as part of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century, there were conditions attached to the grant for the founding of a town, to include a school, a church, a market-place, and in addition, the establishment of a ferry service. The ferry service would connect Munterconnaught to Virginia.​ It was proposed that the town of Virginia be built at Ballaghanea but it was decided that it should be built at the narrowest point of the lake and therefore the shortest way to cross by boat. The ferry was an important amenity for the people of Munterconnaught for shopping or socialising in the local town of Virginia. It was a thriving ferry service where farmers took their goods to the market in Virginia and returned home with their groceries. On the Virginia side, the locals could enjoy the woods on the southern side of the lake by making the short boat trip there. The round trip was 2d. Two cottages, one on each side of Lough Ramor, were built around the middle of the 19th century. The cottage on the Munterconnaught side was for a gamekeeper while the Gate lodge along the Virginia lake shore and close to the ferry landing area was for a boatman or ferryman that operated the service. Many ferrymen names are remembered like an Englishman called Stephens, John Sweeney from Cork; a local man named Preston; John O’Boyle from Donegal, Peter Carrol and Jack Delaney from Mountnugent. The last man to operate the ferry crossing was a man called Matt Donohoe from Belturbet. According to Cavan County Council archives, a notice on the 21 May 1940 was made to the fact that Lord Headfort had sold Virginia lodge and demesne and had no further use for the Lough Ramor Ferry. However, he would not like to discontinue the Ferry without giving interested parties an opportunity to form a committee to operate it. The ferry service came to an end in the late 1950s. The road leading to Lough Ramor on the southern side is still known as the Boat Road.

cool picture Via Dawn Woodhouse's contacts' uploads on Fluidr

Who was capturing and who was captured in this photo?

Excellent shot once again NLI. As you said they do look relaxed though the future of the prisoner might be rather uncertain. He is a fine looking young man and there is almost a sense of relief in his expression. Patrick the men in uniform are Free State or Pro-treaty soldiers and the young prisoner is a Republican rebel or anti-treaty soldier. Both were probably on the same side some months earlier fighting against the British and now they were killing each other with equal ferocity in their disagreement as to how the war should have ended. The prisoner is one of the lucky ones because as usual in civil wars mercy was not always shown by either side.

Swordscookie Excellently put!

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus_III,_Duke_of_Brunswick I think this is him. Seems there is a long line of Ernest Augusts. Including a grandson still around today. Ernest Augustus (Ernest Augustus Christian George; German: Ernst August Christian Georg; 17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953), reigning Duke of Brunswick (2 November 1913 – 8 November 1918), was a grandson of George V, whom the Prussians deposed in 1866. The last reigning monarch of the House of Hanover, Ernest Augustus was a direct descendant of Henry the Lion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Viktoria_Luise_of_Prussia Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick (Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte; German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and the seventh child of William II, German Emperor and Empress Augusta Victoria – at the time of her death, she was their last surviving child. Princess Victoria Louise is the maternal grandmother of Queen Sophie of Spain and the former King Constantine II of the Hellenes.

Ernst August and Victoria Louise were married. Prince Oskar is her brother.

Caption on photo reads: "Prince Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick, and his bride Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, and Prince Oskar" Princess Victoria Louise and Prince Ernst August were married in Berlin in May 1913; King George V and Tsar Nicholas both attended the wedding, one of the last big "family" affairs of European royalty before WWI.

this picture, or one very similar, has appeared on Flickr-LoC before, here is the link:' www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3379421524/

Forget the historical relevance -- look at her fabulous outfit! And is that a purse she's carrying?