thebighouse

2 photos tagged thebighouse, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos taken?

1880

1905

100% of these photos are geotagged.

Tags that often appear on the same photos:

Photos tagged thebighouse:

Loading photos…

Enable JavaScript to browse these photos, or see them on flickr.com.

The last upload was October 2020.

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos:

14 older comments, and then…
Rory Sherlock said:
Glendarary House near Achill Sound: landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-sho... 6" Cassini Map: bit.ly/3mhg9Ql
Rory Sherlock said:
William Pike of Glendarary, J.P. Barrister-at-Law, died in 1881 and was succeeded by his son, Richard James Pike. Major Richard James Pike of Glendarary died 29/11/1891 and was succeeded by his son, Richard Nicholson Pike. (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1898, pages 367-8): babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897986&vie...
beachcomber australia said:
"The only resident landlord on the island, Mr. William Pike ...", from a very disturbing contemporary Freeman's article about famine on Achill Island in 1880 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133486960?searchTerm=p...
Rory Sherlock said:
Funnily enough, the only person with the surname Pike who was enumerated in Mayo in the 1901 census was a German-born Church of Ireland jeweller by the name of Eanos Pike who was living as a lodger with the McNamara family in a three-roomed thatched house at Slievemore on Achill Island, not to far away from Glendarary!
Rory Sherlock said:
Looking at the housing and building returns on the 1901 and 1911 censuses, I can't find a house to match Glendarary - there are six pages of records from the townland of Sraheens, but nothing of this size - could the house have been uninhabited as early as 1900?

9 older comments, and then…
José Miguel LLop Sanchez said:
fantastic shot
Aleksandr Sukhov said:
Да!
Marta said:
Billiant shot!!!!!
Spidra Webster said:
Utterly bizarre that their actual hair is powdered. Even in the heyday of powdering, it was wigs they were using it on, was it not?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Spidra Webster Apparently not! It was their own hair that was powdered...