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Labourers' Cottages.

Bit of a seaside smell to this one.

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....

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).

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"

Distillery Street is still there!

Niall McAuley Adding "loosely" onto Distillery Street, thank you!

That's the huge brick chimney at right, I think we are looking South.

I wouldn't rule out south but the shadows look more as if we're looking east.

Distillery street seems to be named for the Royal Irish Distillery (judging by the map), which according to the internet included the Dunville brand.

No brake cables - they're all rod-actuated.

From a Google Book source..."Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure: Ireland As It Really Was" "John O Neill's bicycle factory in Dublin was started in 1894 originally assembling the bicycles but not manufacturing all the parts ( Weekly Irish Times April 5th 1913)" I don't have access to the newpaper archives to look that up!

O Mac Thank you! I'm off to check now...

John O'Neill in Wolseley Street, 1901: census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Merchants_Qu... Occupation: Cycle Factor From the looks of the OS 25", he did not live at the factory.

John O'Neill was from Carlow. In the 1901 census, in Carlow, I see: ONeill James Accomodation Road Carlow 17 M Cycle Fitter ONeill Edward Accomodation Road Carlow 15 M Cycle Fitter census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year...