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Hi Carol. I'll write up a para. Likely on the Bridge Street pic. When do you need it by? Will I just shoot it over to you as a FlickrMail?

Count me in......

Nice one Carol.

Thanks very much - delighted here at Library Towers! Some sent in already on Flickr Mail. If I could have them by Monday 14th, that'd be absolutely brilliant. Just Flickr Mail me... Which one are you doing, ClickKen04?

This one gave me goosebumps. The depth of field and lighting really gives the image a three-dimensional quality. You can just imagine the noise of all those children!!

Built by local builder Patrick Costen, the building closed in 1967 and was eventually demolished to make way for ESB offices.
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Opened on the afternoon of 4th December 1907. "The distribution of prizes and medals for proficiency in religious knowledge took place simultaneously." (Waterford Chronicle Wednesday, 4 December 1907). The article refers to the new Mason and Lady Lane Amalgamated National School.

Suck Diesel Thank you for that. Some of these men may well have worked on the school...

John Spooner Not Incorporated?

6 June 1910 was a Monday ...

Mr Poole was upstairs at the City Hall (?) - maps.app.goo.gl
(I looked back through 'See More Dates' and there is no sign of the two lady photobombers)

SpOoKy! - the house on the left has vanished and the white house has acquired extra windows. Streetview - www.google.com.au/maps/@52.1667501,-10.4053686,3a,75y,214...

St Vincent's Catholic Church is c. 1865, and "Freestanding cut-stone Celtic Cross style grave marker, c. 1900, to north-west of site." via - www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&... So after 1900?

The triple lancet chancel windows now have recent stained glass - via Places Around Ireland www.flickr.com/photos/placesaroundireland/36542127566/ Flickr is sometimes amazing!

Interesting history of Halloween - it seems we can blame the Celts! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween#History

This is a scene I'm familiar with - I used to be based in the adjacent parish of Dingle. A distant cousin of mine was curate in Ballyferriter in the 1880s and was very involved in Land League activities in the area. I've asked a friend in Ballyferriter to have a look at the Celtic Cross for me to see if we can narrow down the date. (Not sure if/when he'll get back to me!) The church is dedicated to St Vincent de Paul because of the work of priests from the Vincentian Order who began a Mission in West Kerry in 1840s to counteract the activity of the Anglican Rev. Geyer who was even sucessful in converting Fr Denis Layne Brasbie (Curate in Ballyferriter) to Anglicanism. The work of the Vincentians was largely sucessful in reversing what was then known as 'souperism'. The house (now vanished) built on to the church was the presbytery where the clergy and their staff lived, In 1901 that was Fr John O'Leary PP, his curate Fr Patrick O'Regan, their cook/domestic Mary Ashe and general domestic Patrick Connor. To the best of my knowledge, the presbytery survived into the 1980s or 1990s and was known as having quite poor living conditions. It was replaced by a free-standing presbytery the driveway of which can be seen by rotating the Streetview.