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“Sadly for Patrick his disposition brought him the wrong kind of attention and ended being brought into the circus business and dragged and paraded all around Europe branded as the world tallest man. One has to feel great sympathy for the poor fellow to be so unfairly extorted due to just being different. He finally passed away after catching typhoid and died in Marseilles. He was however brought home and laid to rest in Kilbroney Graveyard.”

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His gravestone

This rang a bell. The giant's graveyard is visible in the rear left of the bleaching green photo, see comments from 12 years ago -

Perhaps not as tall as advertised

“Although it was claimed he was 8 Feet and 1 inch!
The famous German physician Dr Rudolph Virchow known as the “Father of Pathology” measured Patrick in 1860 sadly three months before he died.
He recorded his height at 7 feet 2.4 inches and weight at 24 stone”

www.visitwarrenpoint.com/patrick-murphy-the-irish-giant/

The Zoll was a Prussian unit of length pre 1872, the English ‘inch’ wasn’t in use in Germany.
However, the Zoll was practically the same length as an inch

beachcomber australia You must have a giant brain to remember that from 12 years ago!

I took this photo last week from the same place

Did you roll the stone away Sean!! Ghee, I wonder how long that 'Big Stone' as we call it has been there?. Went up to it about 14/15 years ago. Some hike up! Lovely set of old shots though.

Rostrevor is also the site of an ancient SSSI woodland. Very much a gem of Ireland's natural world.

Thanks for spotting the lost punctuation. Woodside might be the name of a hotel in Rostrevor, so going with a comma for now. Hopefully we'll hear more soon about the buildings in the scene.

The hotel is (was) the Great Northern Hotel - Woodside is correct however it refers to an area slightly further back in the picture. The building itself was destroyed in a fire bomb attack in the late 1970's and was never rebuilt. The site is now a car showroom. There are many photographs of the area and some of them along with a photo of a tiny fragment of the old horse drawn tram rails remains and can be seen here: www.oldwarrenpointforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&...

Brian McCalmont, Thank you for the further information on this image! Your link was helpful, as it led me to search in the National Library of Ireland's digital photographs. There is a photograph similar to this view in the National Library of Ireland's collections , and it is identified: Woodside, Rostrevor, Down, so it seems we can safely stay with our current identification. Thanks again for the comment.

2008 view from Google Street View:
maps.google.com/maps?q=Rostrevor,+United+Kingdom&hl=e...

The hotel was the Mourne Hotel in the 1890-1900 timeframe of this Photochrom.
Here's a view from past the hotel, looking towards where the Photochrom was taken, showing the tram line in use.
www.oldwarrenpointforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&amp...