stmichaels

First! (I have nothing sensible to say).

Apparently the chancel of St. Macartin's was enlarged in 1889. I can't tell from the photos if that's happened already in the older one though.

St. Michaels:" Largely built between 1870-75 to just above the belfry – the spire was added more recently. The interior is large and gloomy..."

derangedlemur Which/where is St. Michael's?

The barn on the right. "more recently", incidentally seems to mean mid '90s, so it's not in the other picture either.

Looks to me like this was taken from my old school, Portora?

Nick Stewart I think so, from the angle.

Walter was a real gentleman. Yep, that is taken from Portora and there in the lower foreground is the open air swimming pool, scene of manys a freezing cold swimming experience.

Paul Thanks for all your notes on the photo - have added them into our tags. Did you know Walter Brady then? I didn't know he had died... Here are all of Walter's photos (not yet digitised) that we have from the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I went to school with his son, David. So I did not really know him that well, just as a really friendly Dad of my friend. I remember seeing some of his photos years ago and would be keen to see more. As far as I recall he was a great man for the slides and had hundreds, if not thousands.

This looks familiar. Either I've been there or we had it before.

Is it the other side of the Loreto Convent?

It certainly looks like it, and it doesn't appear to be any of the other big houses byside the Boyne or the BlackWater out as far as Trim, Kells or Slane. I'm assuming the slope on the garden means it's beside a river - where else would you put a mansion?

Sharon Corbet I think you're right. A banded slate roof is mentiond in NIAH description. www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

The Angels Dormitory (NB windows) -