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This one is especially for the doyen of Dog Lovers DannyM8! I'm not sure if there is too much searching to be done but the dog looks especially good!

Odd that it says Wexford. Tallow and Strancally are both in Waterford.

It looks like a gate lodge - there seems to be a road going up the hill past it.

There's a Hannah Beale as Housekeeper in "1 Strancally Demesne" in the 1911 Census. Edited to add: Actually 8, it's no.1 in 1901

It seems to be in Knockanore, according to the internet:

18 October 1930 was a Saturday ...

Probably the wedding of Oonah Perceval Maxwell of Moore Hill, Tallow and Kendal Chavasse of Castle Haven, Castletownshend, 18 Oct 1930: civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marri...

An Poc Ar Buile Looks like a good match.

There's a description of the wedding on p3 of the Dungarvan Observer of 25th October 1930. The bridesmaids were: Countess Thelma Metaxa Miss Diana Somerville (cousin of the bridegroom) Miss Julieth(sic) Wilberforce Miss Elizabeth Baker The trainbearer was Miss Susan Dobbs, "the little daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Dobbs, Cappoquin"

Oh, I assume the sole male presence is the Best Man, Mr, Brian Somerville, RIF Castletownshend (cousin of the bridegroom.) It also mentions that the bridesmaids and trainbearer "were wearing peach coloured chiffon frocks with short velvet coats of a slightly darker shade, and velvet hairbands of a similar tint. They carried bouquets of copper-coloured chrysanthemums."

Victorian Bling!

The skins are long gone and the species is endangered, they may have been good shots but were too bloodthirsty for my liking! The more you look at that image the more it looks way over the top, what a dreadful and overly ostentatious room!

I'm curious about the spurs and pipes above the mantle... guessing British Colonial objects?

Richard Eric Is that what they are, pipes - the two long things that make an inverted V? Couldn't work them out at all...

Swordscookie Indeed! But still interesting as a snapshot in time of a way of life...