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Hmmm ... a Google image search found this from the NLI catalogue - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000736409

Still there.
Dropped pin
maps.app.goo.gl/NYo6xTvL54noKXQu7

From the Irish Cement website: Since commencing operations at Drogheda and Limerick in 1938

Today's photo is several months (or years?) before the March 1956 one that Google found above. See the gardens in the houses bottom left, etc.

I like the puffer train at left.

The factory and Cement Company's Siding are marked on the 1930s 6"OSI map, as well as an Aerial Ropeway to quarries some 3km away.

The ropeway seems to have survived until the 70s, the siding is gone, too.

I see the pylons for the ropeway in todays pic, but they are all gone in Streetview.

I am sure there is a dog in there somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't find it!

Bits are still there - Google Satellite not yet 3D - www.google.com/maps/@54.2684187,-8.4647982,97a,35y,22.25h...

Streetview of the entrance - maps.app.goo.gl/3y4rY1XFkBn8XUv88

Michael Collins was there, Account in Michael Collins' hand of his capture and detention in Sligo Gaol.

It held few prisoners by that time and was closed the following year
“The Gaol’s ‘panopticon’ or ‘all-seeing’ design centred around the Governor’s House, from which the cell block could be observed at all times. Both prisoner and guard were underconstant surveillance. The internal design was intended to allow for air circulation around
the buildings and its inmates, in order to avoid the spread of disease and sickness. There was separate accommodation for men, women, criminals, lunatics and children.

www.sligogaol.ie/general

Suck Diesel hanging took place up to 1903.
Public hangings outside the main gate and private hangings in the treadmill yard on the left.
Many earlier guests ‘emigrated’ to Oz

fabulous green house and kitchen garden!!

Archiseek has a brief history, but won't let me copy'n'paste ...
www.archiseek.com/1870-an-grianan-newtown-house-termonfec...

GoogleMapsSatellite (not 3D) - maps.app.goo.gl/UaXEeBsnakqYsuJk6

Admiring the huge greenhouses which seems to have gone.

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Archiseek (via Windows Snipping Tool) -

"Originally built in the 1780s by the McClintock family and called Newtown House. In 1852 it was sold to a Drogheda merchant and shipbuilder called Ralph Smyth who extended it around 1870. It was redesigned with two elevations of similar architectural merit, both with fine dressed limestone porticos giving it an overall Italianate appearance. The house as it survives today is Smith's work, but a portion of the McClintock building survives at the east end of the south front.

In the early 1920's it was bought by Helen Lentaigne, who allowed the newly constituted Irish Countrywomen's Association to use Newtown House as a venue for one of the first ICA Summer Schools during the 1930's. In July 1945 Mrs Lentaigne sold Newtown House to the Irish Tourist
Board, who renovated the premises and opened the house as Tearman Hotel.

The seeds of An Grianan, were sown in 1952, when Muriel Gahan of the ICA proposed the idea for a residential college for social and educational purposes to Dr Morris, of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of America, through a chance introduction. It was purchased and entrusted for the benefit of the people of Ireland. In October 1954 it was officially opened by the then President of Ireland Sean T O'Kelly."

25" OS - Newtown House

[ Admires Dún Laoghaire Micheál's Snipping Tool ! ]