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There's that condensed script titling again ... Previously (10 years ago!) -

"... Although the 4th Earl built a smaller 3 ft equatorial in 1876, the six-foot telescope remained in use until about 1890. After his death in 1908, the telescope was partly dismantled, and in 1914, one of the mirrors with its mirror box was transferred to the Science Museum in London. The walls remained. The tube, second mirror box, and universal joint survived. ... From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_of_Parsonstown Also - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_mount

There is another haystack to the left (like aliens!) seen in the wider angle Cabinet photo - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338518 Edit - and there are a couple of neighbouring Cabinet plates of the Leviathan, all likely to be the same day as today's photo, and noticeably without Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338516 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338517

“Lord Rosse's 3-foot telescope, at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland. This telescope was constructed in 1839 by the Irish astronomer William Parsons (1800-1867), later the 3rd Earl of Rosse. Pioneering research carried out with this telescope includes the 4th Earl's measurements of the temperature of the Moon in 1868. The more famous telescope is the 6-foot Leviathan of Birr, used to observe nebulae (later called galaxies). The 3-foot telescope was originally operated using an altazimuth mount. In the 1870s it was mounted equatorially. The basket at left was used to raise the observer to the top of the telescope and make observations by looking down the telescope's framework barrel at the mirror.” The Science Photo Library www.sciencephoto.com/media/321431/view/lord-rosse-s-3-foo... So if anybody knows which type of mount it was in the photo would date it pre or post 1870

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via John C McConnell "A early photo of the "first" 3-foot telescope at Birr Castle. Notice the Herschel type mounting on a turntable. ..." -

Looks like the village pump has pumped off, commemorated by a white dot roundabout and a metal cover over the plumbing - Streetview - maps.app.goo.gl/xEEj7YP9W4xucTRc7

Reverse view in 1911 via Mr Eason. NB cross pieces on the telegraph poles, hinting that today's photo might be earlier than 1911 -

Looks like the pump (or something) was still there in 1955, when Monkey swung by - See megazoom - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000733704

Via Trove from 1912 ...

WANTED - A WIFE. Much amusement was created at the Mountmellick Board of Guardians by a labourer named O'Neill applying for a wife. "She need not," he wrote, "be handsome, but homely and hard-working, as beauty is only skin deep, and anyone so gifted, especially one of the female class, spends too much time at the looking glass during the day and neglects her household duties. She must he a good plain cook. With a Mountmellick labourer's wage it is very little she will have to do in the pastry line, which make those tight-laced, hobble-skirted ladies of the present day suffer so much from indigestion and corns. I would like her to be a good singer - or able to play some musical instrument — a mouth-organ or a melodian." The chairman said the lad who wrote that letter needed little assistance in selecting a wife.

See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175231371

William Scully, Draper, Farmer and Canal Agent.. www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Queen_s_Co_/Mou...

I see births of John in 1911, Mary in 1914 and Margaret in 1916, parents William and Margaret née McEvoy.

William is a Rate Collector.

All identified! Thanks Niall McAuley.

But bet there's more to be discovered?

Living at 54 Coote Street in the 1911 census, 2 doors from a convent, 5 front windows.

Niall McAuley Knew it! 😀

9 August 1917 was a Thursday ...