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Down the old bog road

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...
  • John A. Coffey said:
    Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley John A. Coffey CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.
  • Robin Parkes said:
    It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.

Buildings on Peat Island

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looking NW up the Hawkesbury River towards Milson Island. After 1911. See comments www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/4752976909/ .
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    beachcomber australia Thanks, we've added a c.1911 date. For other Flickerites here is the Wikipedia link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat_Island about Peat Island that beachcomberaustralia found.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    More about Peat Island - scratchingsydneyssurface.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/5-march... , including details of a recent book. I wonder if that building is the 'sewing room' mentioned? " The smaller of the two islands, which was Peat Island (earlier known as Rabbit Island), was to be for women. In a major engineering work, the island was cleared of vegetation and levelled to bedrock. Two ward buildings, a kitchen and sewing room were erected between 1902 and 1904. "
  • Rabbitfoot said:
    This photo of Peat (Rabbit) Island was also taken in 1904.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Possibly Thursday 15 February 1906, as reported the next day in the SMH - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14742083

Footing the Turf

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 103 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    Mwahahahaaa! So, what've we got? Looking west or south-west. It's a turf bog. Village on a hill behind. Another village at the foot of the hill with what looks like a public toilet but is probably some sort of municipal building - a school maybe? I shall see what I can find.
  • Vab2009 said:
    derangedlemur lol! You can do it!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    In Google or Bing aerial views, the bogs appear bright orange or brown. To the East of Ballymena, the countryside gets too hilly. I fancy this bog to the West.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Niall McAuley That's roughly where I'm looking on the 6" as well.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    derangedlemurMwahahahaaa! Are you spoofing about "looking west or south-west"??