lisdoonvarna

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Modern building, possibly an hotel with "Butler" shop attached (is Lisdoonvarna)

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • O Mac said:
    Lisdoonvarna..Thomond House .....edit. Eagle Hotel Streetview "In 1870, one thousand five hundred people visited the Spas. In the same year, on a site close to the Gowlaun Spring, then the principal well, a first-class hotel, The Eagle, later to become the famous Thomond, was opened". ------"In 1906, the Eagle Hotel was re-opened as the Thomond"--- A Handbook to Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity:
  • pellethepoet said:
    Robert French photo without the local colour - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000323192
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There's a great big eagle perched on the porch (thanks megazoom). In the French photo too.
  • O Mac said:
    beachcomber australia I'd be nearly sure that this is that same eagle It's up the road at the entrance to Eagle Lodge which was once the hotel owners house.
  • Andy Brill said:
    This photo could possibly have been taken before gas lighting was available in the area. The French photo has a gas light over the portal. When was gas (gasworks) available in the area?

The Twin Wells

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Dave Colthorpe said:
    Love it :)
  • Swordscookie said:
    Did you ever notice how those who worked in the open have very dark features in these old photographs? I am sure that it is because they are so weatherbeaten but they almost look black in some of them. Interesting shot of the group and the situation.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie All in the days before SPF 20!
  • Frank Lea-Ellis said:
    The old lady looks a lot like Ed Sullivan or Ed Sullivan looked like her.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Frank Lea-Ellis Had to Google Ed Sullivan, but I think I see what you mean!

Temprance Bar!

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