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Well, unless they spelt themselves differently, they weren't there in 1901. The only rural Conaghers are in Ballyshiel, Co. Down. It's not close enough to the border that you'd mistake it for Antrim.

There's no end of McKinleys, mind you.

derangedlemur Another version of this photograph gives "Conagher's farm, Co. Antrim Home of the McKinley's". Did they just rent from Conagher? There's a Conagher Bridge in Dervock...

There's several Ulster buildings of american significance preserved at Cultra but not this one. www.nmni.com/uafp/Collections/Buildings/Ulster-Buildings

There is an exterior in the archive, described as Conagher's Farm, Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim

Mountain Stage was also the name of a station on the Farranfore to Valentia railway so I'd assume we're somewhere near there. The photo looks very staged. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,462748,589090,11,9

Well, there's a plausible collection of scruffy hovels here, just north of where Glenbeigh station was: www.google.ie/maps/@52.0602417,-9.942601,3a,75y,23.47h,61... maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,466829,591597,11,9

There's plenty of similar wreckage round Mountain Stage station as well, of course. You can't get streetview into it, though.

Not even a solitary window...

The "Similar items" in the NLI catalogue imply that Mr French visited after the railway line and station were opened in 1893. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farranfore_to_Valencia_Harbour_Railway ) I strained my eyes trying to find this hovel via megazoom™ on Mr French's views of the area, with no luck - see catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318921 & catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318911 Psst! @ National Library of Ireland on The Commons This one of a wonderful bridge "In Hillsborough Demesne" has crept into the wrong place ! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000332016