mitchelstown

I see a dog beside a shop on the left.

wide, generous pavement with pavers, sets and stone herbs. I think I can see the dog, is it curled/ sitting by the shop door ( I am using a small screen today). Children are shod

shop, "best prices for hides and skins" ,another trade that disappeared off the high street?

Can anyone identify which street?

See previous dating comments etc on this rectangular image of the square - The hideous telegraph/telephone poles in all these Eason street and crossroad photos keep catching my attention. Was he on a commission to record them c. 1915 ?

The 60 large bedrooms, not to mention the 20 smaller ones would also have required an army of servants. The gallery was 100 feet in lenght. The castle was occupied, looted and burnt in 1922 by the IRA. Never rebuilt, its stones later sold and used in building a Cistercian Abbey. WIKI

25" map. Flipping to Aerial view shows a big Dairygold factory there now.

Exterior view:


Lots of history of the destruction of the house at that photo.

Lots of information and links when we visited the outside previously - Ed. SNAP! @ Niall McAuley

Beachcomber guessed (very roughly) that exterior was maybe 1900ish last time.

A mainly useless digression: In the catalogue, after the sequence of castle shots, there is L_ROY_01079 tagged 1880-1900, of Mitchelstown Square. While there is no guarantee that this is the same time as the castle shot, I tried to date it anyway.

I see a shop way off in the background looks like Delaney, a butcher. No, the 1893 Guys says Delarue, Victualller, a better fit.

But then, squinting carefully, I see bushes in the windows of the house beyond Delarue, significant because of this:


which we dated earlier at June 1887!

Streetview

www.thememorytrail.com/content/some-things-see-mitchelsto... indicates that the statue of John Mandeville in New Square was erected in 1906. (S. also www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...)

The statue was unveiled on 9/9/1906 (to be slightly more exact!) - more information here - jskean.incolor.com/Mandeville.htm

Is that a drone above the power pole or maybe a distant helicopter, or maybe a near dragonfly?

Ryans, Whelan and Fitzgerald are all there in the 1911 census.