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The castle-like building is the RIC Barracks. That’s the old train line from Cahirsiveen to Valentia Harbour which operated 1893 to 1960. The left bank is known as “over the water” to the people of Cahirsiveen.

Streetview, not a very close one, but the bridges and turrety building are still there. The railway is not. The turrety yoke is the RIC barracks of 1875.

Mr Valentine ❤ visited too; Spot The Differences ...

From - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046259

The box girder bridge is from 1893.

Looks like all the principal features except the railway station have survived: both bridges and the barracks are extant

Approx Streetview: goo.gl/maps/FvNHvNsYmbtLeGyv9

Link to Megazoom not working for me - maybe this will be of use: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000299670

Mr French / Lawrence caught an earlier train !! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317655

None of the commecial signs - Gilbey's, Murphy's, Fry's Chocolate give any clear indications for dating.

Okay - I think a fair case could be made for a post-1901 dating. Dromdaleague (sic) & Dromdaleague Town are both found in the Bredagh Electoral District in the 1901 and 1911 Censuses respectively. Have a look at the first page of the building returns for each census - 1901: www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000587781/ 1911: www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002012724/ Now, Samuel Kingston's pub is found at House 7 in both returns, so I'm confident that we're dealing with roughly the same part of town. However, in 1901, there's no trace of (Richard) Kingston's Hotel with 21 windows in front. Indeed, having searched the other pages of the 1901 census's building return, I can't find trace of any hotel of that size in Drimoleague. So I suspect that the hotel was built post-1901.

A wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh The birds sang in the wet trees And I listened to them it was a hundred years from now And I was dead and someone else was listening to them. But I was glad I had recorded for him The melancholy.

31 August 1959 was a Monday . . .

The 1925 concrete roundhouse has survived. In 2008 via tarboat And earlier, in 1954 via Ernies Railway Archive

GoogleGlimpse - goo.gl/maps/1PQ91Gr7UTjJ8PBT7

In 1852 it was foreseen that the junction at Clones would enable not great things in stimulating trade and industry not only in the areas crossed by the lines and the regions linked by the lines but also bring great prosperity to Belfast (and everyone would live happily ever after). At any rate, that was the opinion of Belfast News-Letter onWednesday 15 December 1852

That these designs will be realised we have not the slightest doubt when we consider what sort of link "The Belfast and West of Ireland Junction Railway" will really form in the great iron net-work of the North. At Clones, it will catch the traffic brought down by the Derry and Enniskillen line in one direction, and by the Sligo and Enniskillen extension in another. At the same point it will receive nutrition from another great " feeder," which will undoubtedly be in operation before long - we allude to the branch of the Great Midland from Mullingar to Cavan, and thence extended to Clones ; whilst along its entire length it will collect the traffic now in a state of rapid development throughout that considerable and fertile district which trends South-west from Armagh. To this hitherto unopened, or very imperfectly opened, region, it will impart a stimulus to manufacture and agriculture which will speedily enable it to rival the most favoured portions of the North-east; and whilst the line will have this beneficial effect on the country it traverses, it will throw the whole industrial result into Belfast, and thus materially add to the opulence, influence, and greatness of the Northern capital.