sails

I'll admit that I'm coming up blank for the moment. (Though I'm sure it will turn out to be somewhere completely obvious!)

Sharon Corbet Has everyone gone on holiday today?

Shadows, are we looking North East? Rapids/waterfall in the river which flows South into the harbour. Huge convent or maybe a barracks on the hill. Could it be Ballyshannon? I believe it is, the "convent" is the old workhouse. General View, Ballyshannon from the Eblana collection. We are looking a bit South of East

Niall McAuley is amazing! And so is Flickr! This via Aidan Devlin about the Mall pier / jetty / quay, centre frame - " ... This jetty was also the site where many thousands of passengers and emigrants who left Ireland during the nineteenth-century (particularly during the years of the Great Famine c. 1845 - 1851 and in the decades afterwards) on their way to North America etc. The port/harbour at Ballyshannon was hindered by the presence of a dangerous sandbar in the estuary, which meant that the larger ships could not come into the port but had to move the goods/passengers to and from smaller boats to reach the shore (goods were also regularly unloaded at Killybegs - then a subsidiary port of Ballyshannon and later transported to Ballyshannon by smaller vessels). This quay was apparently constructed or remodelled for a Dr. Sheil prior to 1836 and was later purchased from the Sheil family by the Ballyshannon Harbour Commissioners (for £137-10-00) in 1888. Works were carried out on the harbour by Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850), a Scottish engineer, in 1835 – 6. The harbour/quay appears to have declined in importance by the end of the nineteenth-century. ..." Edit - above quote originally from www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/40852...

Reverse-ish view with dating information -

Beautiful

grace!

Only a handful of Torres Strait luggers remain From 1863 to the 1980s hundreds of pearling vessels worked the East and West coasts of Queensland, Torres Strait, and for some years in the Aru Islands of Indonesia. Of these, we believe that there are only 14 identified Torres Strait pearling luggers, 1 former pearl shell carrier, and 2 formers Torres Strait missionary vessels remaining. Recent losses include the 112-year-old Lugger GRAFTON A49 - the wreck of her hull removed from Port Douglas in February 2019 and FLORIA whose end is imminent. TORRES PEARL Formerly named SEDNEY, the Torres Pearl is currently located in Tasmania in private ownership. She has an aft-wheelhouse and those lugger lines. Source: pearlingluggers.com.au/last-of-the-luggers