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SS Granuaile--between 1895-1915 was operated by the Congested Districts Board

In a letter to "Granny" published on The Childrens's Page of Weekly Irish Times on Saturday 30 June 1906, 14-year-old Mary Howe of Caherciveen writes of her family's outing to Valencia;

A regatta is held every year in Valencia Harbour. There is always a great gathering of people and excitement at it. I, with the rest of our family, go to it every year and you may be quite sure that we come home pleased with our day’s outing. We had the pleasure of seeing the Secretary for Ireland at Reenard Point the other evening. He came in the steamer Granuaile. A large number of the townspeople came down and told him their wants. He came up from the point that evening in his motor car, and passed through the town.

For her letter Mary won one of the 3 "Granny's Hampers" awarded that week for the best letters.

Mr French was upstairs in the Royal Valentia Hotel - see streetview - www.google.com.au/maps/@51.9262146,-10.2876545,3a,75y,80.... Not sure if these are earlier or later - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041644 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320504 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333259

Amazing number (31) of "Valentia Hotel" photos inside and outside in the NLI catalogue - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=valentia+hotel&am...

There seems to have been an inclination at one time for using T for the town/port and C for the island.

After the crew had been rescued by the Tenedos they were transferred to a local motor boat and landed at Valentia, Valencia Island.

(Shields Daily News - Saturday 22 July 1939)

Rev G L Swain. M.A, to the Rectory of Valentia, Valencia Island

(Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 18 August 1906)

FLOWER SHOW AT VALENTIA: The first Flower Show ever held in Valencia Island ...

(Kerry Evening Post. - Saturday 27 August 1892) Presumably the writers assume that because there are 2 spellings, each must refer to a different entity. But mostly they are randomly interchangeable

RECREATION HALL FOR VALENTIA ISLAND. Last week a large and representative meeting of the people of Valencia Island

(Kerry Evening Post. - Wednesday 11 April 1906)

The location for this Church is a little off - it's not in Chapeltown (where there is a Catholic Church) but is in fact the Church of Ireland Church of St John the Baptist, Kniightstown, Valentia. maps.google.com/maps?q=Valentia,+Ireland&hl=en&ll... The building in the background is the parsonage.

The Church dates from 1860, and the Parsonage (same as a Glebe house, right?) from 1873.

This is a feast for the eyes with all that is going on here! The sorting by the men and women closest to the camera, under the eye of the overseer, is clearly dried fish. The barrels are so numerous it has to have been a large fishing port. Off in the distance a hulk seems to be beached on the far shore of the river/inlet! Terrific image.

Valentia according to this photo. "Barrels of pickled mackerel at the Slate Yard, Knightsown, awaiting shipment to the United States at the turn of the century". is the description underneath.

Swordscookie Dried or smoked?

See this General view of the harbour at Knight's town, i can't see where this fits at all.

Niall McAuley Looking at the map, (maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,442629,577319,12,9), you can't get the googlemobile into the right spot. It's the other side of the Royal Pier Bar. (Also, it's not like you not to be reaching straight for the 25" - was it broken earlier?)