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Eee! There be double at t' mill !

Drogheda?

Niall McAuley I think you're right. Note gas works above and on map. geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9...

Niall McAuley Looks a match to the map. Gas works and two chimneys and St Marys mill in the foreground and St Peters C of I in the distance. At a guess taken from railway embankment by the station hence the fence line with sleepers. Edit or maybe the viaduct?

Siena Convent (see note) - the NIAH say the "Convent chapel added to west by G. C. Ashlin, dated 1876." I think it is there; so after 1876? See - www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13619...

P.S. Fógra: Our curator of photographs here at the National Library, Elizabeth Kirwan, is looking for some help. She hopes to identify the women in this Liberty Hall photograph, and to establish the date it was taken. It's been languishing rather unloved here for almost 13 years. So it'd be great if some of ye could help us revisit it, once you've finished with today's photograph, of course!

The fourth son, Vincent James O'Connell, was an architect ... Architect and engineer, of Earl Street, Dundalk, active from the first decade of the twentienth century until 1950 or later. Vincent O' Connell, fourth son of Henry O'Connell, grocer, of Dundalk, and his wife, Mary, was born in Co. Louth in 1882 or 1883. He became a pupil in the office of of HAGUE & amp; MCNAMARA in Dublin(1) before setting up in practice in Earl Street, Dundalk, in 1906 or earlier. He was appointed engineer to the Newry Port and Harbour Trust in 1910 in succession to JAMES BARTON (2) and had opened a branch office in Newry by the autumn of 1911.(3) He married after 1911, when, according to the 1911 census, he was still living as a bachelor with his parents in Earl Street, Dundalk. By 1944 he had taken a son into partnership, practising as V.J. O'Connell & Son. ... See - www.dia.ie/architects/view/4107/O%27CONNELL-VINCENTJAMES

Still writ large in Earl Street (but not matching the photo) ... H. O'CONNELL & Co. WHOLESALE TEA WAREHOUSE. HAM & BACON STORE see - maps.app.goo.gl/BrRxhQrFBjJwKVKK7

Building is now occupied by the Dundalk Leader. maps.app.goo.gl/qQc3PKQvNxnCijf97

Suck Diesel Any info on that IWWU photo you have, will be very gratefully received. But could you comment under that photo, rather than here, so all the information stays together?

We're right at the junction with Shop St. to the left, St. Mary's Bridge to the right. Google Streetview shows the quayside quite changed, but the roofline to the left is still similar. The GeoHive OS 25" shows the Hotel to the left, survey date June 1907.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I'd agree that it is the "Kyne" and the next one down has three letters visible "S or GIF?". What a beauty of a shot, for those of us who know the place it has changed very little but look at those ships??? Fantastic detail and imagery. They are all moored about 10 to 15 feet from the quay wall, obviously because the bottom sloped up rapidly, and there is a plank across that considerable gap. Talk about walking the plank. You will also note that each ship has a dinghy beside the gangway for the less than nimble to come and go? Look at the length of that roofers ladder on the left? Imagine carrying that around on your shoulder or on your bicycle as they used to do? Brilliant shot Carol, well done. Did you take it yourself?

The symmetrey in this photo is spectacular. That wall would not have been very conducive to cargo handling. I wonder if that was a holding area for the ships between voyages?

Micheál Cattigan Thats a good point given the distance they are from the wall as well. There is also a lack of space for manoeuvreing drays etc. on the quayside. You can see another ship in the background either getting ready to dock or to leave and judging by the tiny bow wave the tide is flowing so it may be leaving. It is possible that there was a small jetty or dock over on the Scotch Hall side where actual unloading was done, unless of course these were passenger ships taking emigrants to far away places? The 1860's were a time of mass emigration from Ireland and all of the ports were handling such ships.

The chap nearest the camera is wearing a bowler hat but they were invented in 1844 so that is no help to us date wise!