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Probably were under instruction to keep still for a minute or so.

Now those two ladies look suspiciously like mother and daughter, so could this be the propietor's family posing for an all-important publicity post-card? Sunday clothes, mother to anwer to if they don't get it right..... it's no wonder the poor things look wooden. And, Oh I do hope father didn't step on his nice new billy-cock hat when he got up!

Well, I guess Michiel2005 is right, posing for a while didn't exactly make for spontaneous snapshots, but maybe you're right too Jack Falstaff. Maybe they weren't resting tourists! And thanks for billycock! Didn't know that was what these hats were called. Apparently also bombín in Spanish speaking parts...

You're welcome, Carol. It was also known as a Derby in the USA, but more generally in the UK (when Jack was a lad, which is a long time ago) as a Bowler (after the name of the original makers) and,much more rarely if memory serves, as a Coke Hat (because it was created in the mid-nineteenth century for Edward Coke, brother of the Earl of Leicester).

Charming scene would be great foe a publicity shot.

This shot really caught my fancy with the curved descent to road level and then running beside the road, it is just so Irish, I love it!

Called a tramway, I believe, when running beside a road. Great shot from the days of the long togs. Keep up the good work.

Paddywhack56 Looks like a tram on the map, anyway. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,601977,809277,7,9

Streetview, I think. OSI 25" Map showing the level crossing.

Sharon Corbet Hi Sharon, yes, that's the streetview I was going to post!

The engine appears to say 6T on it.

Thank you!

Is this the same engine? I'm not trainspotty enough to work it out -

OSI map centered on the photographers approximate position. note crane and SP. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,605395,790263,7,9

Very evocative photo with the winter sun.
No.6T was one of the ex Tralee & Dingle Railway locomotives, transferred firstly to the West Clare section after closure of the Tralee system in 1952, and finally moving to the Cavan & Leitrim in 1957 to deal with the increasing coal traffic from the Arigna mines. Its sister locomotive 5T is currently in a dismantled state in Tralee.