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Safe harbour at last.

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  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    I'll admit that I'm coming up blank for the moment. (Though I'm sure it will turn out to be somewhere completely obvious!)
  • DannyM8 said:
    Sharon Corbet Has everyone gone on holiday today?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Shadows, are we looking North East? Rapids/waterfall in the river which flows South into the harbour. Huge convent or maybe a barracks on the hill. Could it be Ballyshannon? I believe it is, the "convent" is the old workhouse. General View, Ballyshannon from the Eblana collection. We are looking a bit South of East
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Niall McAuley is amazing! And so is Flickr! This via Aidan Devlin about the Mall pier / jetty / quay, centre frame - " ... This jetty was also the site where many thousands of passengers and emigrants who left Ireland during the nineteenth-century (particularly during the years of the Great Famine c. 1845 - 1851 and in the decades afterwards) on their way to North America etc. The port/harbour at Ballyshannon was hindered by the presence of a dangerous sandbar in the estuary, which meant that the larger ships could not come into the port but had to move the goods/passengers to and from smaller boats to reach the shore (goods were also regularly unloaded at Killybegs - then a subsidiary port of Ballyshannon and later transported to Ballyshannon by smaller vessels). This quay was apparently constructed or remodelled for a Dr. Sheil prior to 1836 and was later purchased from the Sheil family by the Ballyshannon Harbour Commissioners (for £137-10-00) in 1888. Works were carried out on the harbour by Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850), a Scottish engineer, in 1835 – 6. The harbour/quay appears to have declined in importance by the end of the nineteenth-century. ..." Edit - above quote originally from www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/40852...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Reverse-ish view with dating information -

Large cannon at Battery Rogers [sic], Alexanderia [sic], Va.

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  • No lo digo. said:
    The short little description is really rather interesting.

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