fiddown

There are a couple of related photos for Mr Hamilton of Piltown House. They ring a bell but I can't remember where ...

POOLEWP 0137 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589973
POOLEWP 0137a - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000589974

i'd say they are nice people, they have a DOG

beachcomber australia I hope you're imagining that bell! We live in dread of The Déjà Vus™️ here at Library Towers...

[Aside] DannyM8 I just found Miss Robertson, of Annefield House, Piltown, who has three dogs and looks delightfully batty! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000594116

Google maps is unaware of Piltown House

A Belfast reg? seems unlikely

Tourin Demesne, Drumroe, as per the census

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Mind you, the photo doesn't seem to match the map. No, this isn't Tourin House.

Suck Diesel Reg number is more likely to be CI which would have been Queens County then now Co Laois. Will come back later with make of car.

There's a few more gigantic tanks at the end of it now: goo.gl/maps/3o8Aedy94ZnzSkp47

25" says the toll is at the other end from my streetview link, but in the megazoom, I think I can see the gable and chimney of the house at the end facing this way. Maybe it also includes the island, thus: goo.gl/maps/WTfvKk5ZEda8dXxW9 Hard to tell with the foreshortening.

Close-up of the gates and toll collector - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000577057 who may be Mr John Brown, who hired Mr Poole to photo him in 1931 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000696462 ?? Not the only toll bridge: via Mr French / Lawrence at Athlunkard - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000297881 And via Mr Poole with pigs and policemen - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590759

At the NIAH: of additional importance for the historic associations with the Malcomson family of nearby Portlaw who, being major shareholders in the railway companies in Ireland, financed much of the construction as a means of connecting the model industrial village in County Waterford with the station recently established in Fiddown From a random road trivia page: The present concrete bridge was opened in 1983 and replaced a toll wooden bridge built in the 1850s to link the railway station at Fiddown with Portlaw. As it was provided for the benefit of the railway, the bridge became property of the rail infrastructure operator, CIÉ. After the station closed but the bridge became important to the community, CIÉ continued to maintain it with a 1p toll charged. They saw this operation as a nuisance and were eventually able to pass responsibility to the local councils, meaning that toll charges ended in 1976. This was the last toll in operation in Ireland at the time.

beachcomber australia So the cottage at the end that looks like a tollhouse is in fact a tollhouse.

111 years? What a lovely shot of the old church. Chances are the church and the belfry have been replaced!!!!

It says on the gate that it's from 1860

We're also looking west (-ish), so this is the back of the church. The bellcote is on the front, along with some sort of facade.

Mary - this is a tough one!

DannyM8 If anyone can sort it the Lemur can!!!