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The ship, the Luimneach, was sunk by gunfire from a U-boat in 1940. All of the crew members survived, 15 making their way home via Spain and 3 being imprisoned as POWs in France. www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?12944

According to this set of articles on the Limerick Steamship Co., the Luimneach was previously the Fairfield that had been sunk at Zeebrugge in WWI and later raised. It had been built in 1915, in Tyne, and was in service at the LSS Co. from 1922-1940.

Also according to that article, if it is 1931 then, the ship's captain would have been Captain W. McNamee, who retired in August 1932.

Geohive 6" Cassini map.

Possibly ordered by Walter J. Farrell, master mariner and harbourmaster of Waterford port. Here he is in 1911 living in Sion Row, but in a house larger than anything standing now, I think. Possibly in one of these mostly demolished houses (Streetview).

Assuming we have the same ship, it has an interesting story... "Ambria was a cargo ship that was built in 1922 by Deutsche Werft, Finkenwerder for German owners. She was sold in 1934 and renamed Gumbinnen. She was sunk by a British destroyer in 1941, raised and repaired." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ambria

11 December 1926 was a Saturday ...

Presumably that 'thing' is for putting water in locomotives, going by the dribbles. But why is it furry ?

beachcomber australia That is an interesting finish on the pump, it looks somewhere between barnacles and bearskin!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Donkey ? From the same day, this building site for Siemens-Schuckert, which might have something to do with something - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000594017

There's a few more gigantic tanks at the end of it now: goo.gl/maps/3o8Aedy94ZnzSkp47

25" says the toll is at the other end from my streetview link, but in the megazoom, I think I can see the gable and chimney of the house at the end facing this way. Maybe it also includes the island, thus: goo.gl/maps/WTfvKk5ZEda8dXxW9 Hard to tell with the foreshortening.

Close-up of the gates and toll collector - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000577057 who may be Mr John Brown, who hired Mr Poole to photo him in 1931 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000696462 ?? Not the only toll bridge: via Mr French / Lawrence at Athlunkard - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000297881 And via Mr Poole with pigs and policemen - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590759

At the NIAH: of additional importance for the historic associations with the Malcomson family of nearby Portlaw who, being major shareholders in the railway companies in Ireland, financed much of the construction as a means of connecting the model industrial village in County Waterford with the station recently established in Fiddown From a random road trivia page: The present concrete bridge was opened in 1983 and replaced a toll wooden bridge built in the 1850s to link the railway station at Fiddown with Portlaw. As it was provided for the benefit of the railway, the bridge became property of the rail infrastructure operator, CIÉ. After the station closed but the bridge became important to the community, CIÉ continued to maintain it with a 1p toll charged. They saw this operation as a nuisance and were eventually able to pass responsibility to the local councils, meaning that toll charges ended in 1976. This was the last toll in operation in Ireland at the time.

beachcomber australia So the cottage at the end that looks like a tollhouse is in fact a tollhouse.