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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

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A year ago, 90 degrees away -

An increase of 3ft on yesterday's 17ft fall Newry Telegraph - Thursday 04 November

ACCIDENT AT KING JOHN'S CASTLE CARLINGFORD.—On Monday evening a venturesome young sailor, from a vessel at present lying in Carlingford Harbour, was clambering through the picturesque ruins of King John's Castle when he missed his footing. and fell from a height of twenty feet. Fortunately, he escaped with his life, but his right arm was fractured, and he sustained other injuries.

“Carlingford Castle's west wing was built in the late 12th century by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It acquired the name "King John's Castle" after King John, Lord of Ireland, supposedly stayed there for three days in 1210, during his second expedition, when he invaded Ulster to apprehend Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_John%27s_Castle_(Carlingford)

John Spooner There is a "venturesome young sailor" on the bowsprit. Looks like he is up to mischief.

'PEEL'

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good to see it without modern artefacts!

beachcomber australia Peel port is 50 nautical miles from Carlingford.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! With modern artefacts in 2018, via RoystonVasey