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Down the old bog road

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 10 older comments, and then…
• Niall McAuley said:

  Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...

• John A. Coffey said:

  Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.

• CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:

  That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Niall McAuley John A. Coffey CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.

• Robin Parkes said:

  It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.