monkstown

Is that man sitting on a suitcase, having missed the boat? If you view the largest size, there's some writing on the lifering (is that the proper term), that seems to end in "HAL". So, sould be Youghal. Maybe I'm imagining it.

That is a fabulous image. Looks like grass growing up through the boards, which would suggest that its not used a lot? Wherever it is, I love it.

That's a very distinctive church steeple, but I don't recognize it.

Warren Fleury on Broadsheet.ie says it's "Looking across at Monkstown, Co. Cork from Verlome Dockyard, Carrigaloe." A quick look on Google Street View shows up the distinctive steeple, so I'd say Warren has the right of it.

Yes, here's a photo of the Sacred Heart church behind that row of seafront buildings in panoramio.

The chains are still there as is the famine pot(?) but the small statue is gone and the lovely lamp replaced by a palm tree. www.google.es/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x486708991a2e07bf:...

The DIA dates the church to 1866, the tower and spire to 1882.

It is before the Tram arrived

This one in the archive has tram wires, and the creeper has grown across the main door. Clearly later. There is a pole for the tram wires in this little roundabout. The later shot has cobbled roads.

Nelson's Pillar and Kingstown Opened August 1885,

I came across this one recently while looking for something else. Now, if only I could remember where or what...

It's a "Machicolation" rather than majiculation, if anyone else was trying to find out what it was... (Google was no help on this one.)

One of the Cork or Limerick ones, I think...

Monkstown Castle, Cork.

OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,576534,566274,12,9