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I think more than one family here. 2 plunger butter churns.

There's a companion photo with more unfortunate folk - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000227350 No luck searching for a run-down Big House near Castlebar, with a semi-circular driveway and a lodge house on the left. Anybody ?

I wonder could this have been taken at the entrance to Elmhall Belcarra, Castlebar in 1886. The gate lodge on left could be the house that's now restored as the Elmhall eviction house.. maps.app.goo.gl/paRFnh6YzMWA4H7FA In 1886 the Connaught Telegraph documented an eviction which took place at Elm Hall, Belcarra, near Castlebar, where the Walshe family was evicted by the landlord's agents, Gardiner, Pringle and Cuffe. On Saturday last, the savage crew, composed of Gardiner, Pringle, Cuffe and 50 or 60 policemen with three or four officers and a paid magistrate attended at Tully and Elmhall and succeeded in evicting two wretched families. There is nothing remarkable to be noted in the proceeding of the day further than we mentioned last week - that John Garvey and James Walshe were turned adrift and that the heartless wretch Gardiner assisted her bastard relation in removing the furniture from the cabin.

O Mac There are some Wynne photos here of the Walshe eviction, and it doesn't seem to be the gate lodge here.

O Mac Sharon Corbet The gate and semi-circular wall were to the east, according to the old geohive maps. Wall and iron gates (not the same ones) still visible here - goo.gl/maps/L9LZb4GZkBsk7tCa8

Glendarary House near Achill Sound: landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-sho... 6" Cassini Map: bit.ly/3mhg9Ql

William Pike of Glendarary, J.P. Barrister-at-Law, died in 1881 and was succeeded by his son, Richard James Pike. Major Richard James Pike of Glendarary died 29/11/1891 and was succeeded by his son, Richard Nicholson Pike. (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1898, pages 367-8): babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897986&vie...

"The only resident landlord on the island, Mr. William Pike ...", from a very disturbing contemporary Freeman's article about famine on Achill Island in 1880 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133486960?searchTerm=p...

Funnily enough, the only person with the surname Pike who was enumerated in Mayo in the 1901 census was a German-born Church of Ireland jeweller by the name of Eanos Pike who was living as a lodger with the McNamara family in a three-roomed thatched house at Slievemore on Achill Island, not to far away from Glendarary!

Looking at the housing and building returns on the 1901 and 1911 censuses, I can't find a house to match Glendarary - there are six pages of records from the townland of Sraheens, but nothing of this size - could the house have been uninhabited as early as 1900?

Ivy's (or more properly Mrs Creeper's ?) hotel was larger when viewed from the right - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000336124 Can't find it on google maps - HELP !

Per the 25", this is as close as I can get - the Hotel was in the trees, the hillside is to our right. The 1930s Cassini map does not mark it as a Hotel, it marks a Doolough House. There are no houses at all on the 1830s 6".

Much less Ivy Creeper on another different visit - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316495

Are we sure this is Co. Galway, not one of the several other lakes of the same name?

It is in Mayo.