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Labourers' Cottages

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 28 older comments, and then…
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Labourers' Cottages.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Bit of a seaside smell to this one.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Apologies, we had an issue with the sync on the description and labels this morning. With thanks to Sharon Corbet and Niall McAuley for establishing the catalogue references in the meantime, we've since updated the description....
  • guliolopez said:
    This was probably one of many labourers' cottages built under some of the turn of the century acts. I couldn't say where these are. Because the country is littered with them. The 1881/1882 acts provided for the building of a lot of these. Mainly to address a lot of the probems we've discussed in the recent "evictions" series. A series of acts were passed between the 1880s and the 1930s, specifically with the intent of improving living conditions for agricultural labourers - local authorities were therefore involved in locating and compulsorily purchasing sites, building cottages and housing people. Tens of thousands of simple labourers cottages of this type were built all over the country. About the only thing that looks different for these ones is the second/dormer story - most were very simple one-storey buildings to pretty much the same plan. And the (newly en-vogue) water butt. If someone recognised the plan/form of this house we might be able to narrow down a county (as many local authorities and poor law unions built from their own plans). But otherwise it might be needle in a countryside of haystacks... (See Land & Labour Association#Cottage ownership and Land Acts#Labourers Act 1906 - both Wikipedia).
  • O Mac said:
    guliolopez We have a variation on a theme in the Claddagh here in Galway. These are known locally as "exservicemens houses" built under the "Irish Land (Provision for Sailors and Soldiers) Act 1919"

Jacob's biscuit factory

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Archiseek article on the building.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    OSI Map showing "Biscuit factory".
  • Carol Maddock said:
    But the bigger mystery of how they ever got the figs into the Fig Rolls is solved here...
  • John Spooner said:
    Freeman's Journal of May 26 1883 reported a fire at Messrs Jacob's Biscuit Factory in Peter Street. The damage done was enormous", but could have been worse but for the actions of the night watchman, Patrick Mooney, and the Fire Brigade under the command of Captain Boyle and Lieutenant Boyle.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    There's a ground floor floorplan of the factory available and I think I can make out a "cutter room" towards the centre. (However, the floorplans date from 1956, so I presume there may have been a few changes made.)

Dolmen or portal tomb? As we are in Wales, perhaps cromlech is best

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    It may be in Wales.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Lots of trees in the background suggests East rather then West...
  • O Mac said:
    and each Midsummer's Eve, the capstone spins around three times and all the stones go to the nearby river to bathe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Lythans_burial_chamber
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Google Satellite view, of St. Lythan's (it's hidden behind a hedge in Streetview).
  • Niall McAuley said:
    It looks as if Sharon has it!