fermoy

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).

Precious

Look at the quality of the image! 101 years old and the clarity is outstanding!

The apple of lots of peoples eyes I suspect. Great shot and tremendous clarity.

Brian Mulligan You just can't beat the old glass plates!

Swordscookie And he had an equally cute little sister!

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...