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Fantastic capture……………………..

Stupenda!

Very rare

Wonderful image!

over/under.

John is using the calm fine conditions to hang shirts out on the washing line. I remember this fort from a visit many years ago. very casual leg over for the cox in the gondola ...

the NLI sleuths must be doing Xmas shopping, hopefully this pretty scene of Limerick won't go into the "less than five comments" folder !

Hello, Morning Mary! If you're still taking questions although it's afternoon, I'm intrigued by the Ganlow. Is that a local name for it?

Carol Maddock I was rushing out to a doctors appointment and did not get a chance to look things up until now! I never saw the name written until today and though all the boat users I know called it a "ganlow" apparently the correct spelling is "Gandalow" There were two boats peculiar to the Limerick waters, the Gandalow and the "Angling Cot". The latter was a narrow flat bottomed boat with a sharp end at bow and stern or even front and back which was mainly used in the calmer waters of the Abbey River and above the tide level. The Ganlow (Gandalow) was a much stronger flat bottomed clinker built wooden boat always with a bottom covered in black pitch. When I was a lass there was always several of them on the beach in front of the Strand Barracks below the Curragower. The fishermen lived mainly in nearby Thomondgate which is on the Clare (near) side of the bridge in today's image. They used nets for their fishing and they would go down river on the ebb tide and return on the flowing tide with their catch. As often as not there was a lot of rowing done and it was a really hard grind. I found this in the stream one of our occasional contributors

The first of the islands to be electrified, in 1957 acccording to Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranmore This cable must be for telephone, not power Who's the guy with both cine and a twin lens?

Suck Diesel Similar to this Rollie? (in another Tynan Donegal shot)

I wonder if that is Denis Tynan, and his wife took the picture?

Suck Diesel They had a telephone cable from 1938 according to a report in the Dail on the Post & Telegraphs from 1939. A new telephone cable has also been laid between Arranmore Island and the mainland at Burtonport (Co. Donegal) in substitution of the wireless telegraph service previously operative which was in need of renewal. A public call office on the island will be opened shortly. So this is either actually from 1957, or it is a replacement telephone/power cable.

Make that 1956 for the electrification according to the ESB. It looks like there was an interesting article about the laying of that cable in the August 1956 edition of the REO (Rural Electrification Office) Report, but I can't locate a copy.