valentia

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Oh goody, your'e back! I wasn't worried; just missing you ... :- )

There is a dog on the wall!

DannyM8 is ALWAYS amazing! Streetview - goo.gl/maps/ZzqvjgexCJc63xfs5

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Looking at the shadow under the donkey and cart I would think it is midday or early afternoon. But clock says different. Not off to the bog but to the meadow as there is a wood tine hay rake on top of the creels of the cart. Young lad with hand on coping of wall seems to be in uniform and cap (Post&Telegraph). Is that his bike leaning against the inside of the wall? Other young man leaning on wall has his arm around a strainer wire from a telegraph pole just out of shot. No shadow from wires in shot or insulators to be seen on house opposite. Time on clock I shall leave to beachcomber. Looking at pier we are not on high water yet or tide is o the ebb. Also of note is demasted vessel moored offshore.

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?)

Valentia Island is in the background and a bridge was opened between Portmagee and Valentia in 1971. Valentia in the title seems a little misleading. Everybody knows each other in both places; but one wouldn't want to persuade them that they are one and the same.

Mossy Carey One certainly would not! Title changed now, and I'll try to remember to change it in our catalogue too. Again, that was from the original Lawrence information.