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Unidentified = Eel Weir taken from Town Bridge in Athlone, Co. Westmeath

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Looks very familiar! (will think about the date).
  • DannyM8 said:
    Shannon I would think
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebee2012] Keep thinking - all suggestions welcome, though from the width I'm thinking the Shannon just like DannyM8.
  • Colin said:
    I was just going to say it is the Shannon, because those barges with the tall chimneys are Shannon barges, methinks. Could it be Foynes before development? Or is it one of the junctions between the Shannon and one of the canals?
  • In Memoriam said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebee2012] Maybe you are thinking of Westport Quay? I am not sure that it quite right for it but it is very similar.

We're in Mullingar, but not a heifer in sight?

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  • Fred Dean Snr. said:
    Fluid Beef , until 1889 it became Bovril.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Streetview - goo.gl/maps/6vV1GDizJj4E4ReN6 - it looks like all the buildings are still the same!
  • Foxglove said:
    man leans against wall outside cycle repair shop, another Flann O'Brien half truth. the butchers animal display is fabulous, I remember as a child making straw castles from the wood shaving on the floor, shouting up under the cattle and pig carcasses, pulling the ligaments on chicken feet to make the toes work ; Tescos is not such fun, aye we knew how to get around the boredom then 😉
  • Foxglove said:
    the road has covered/ culvert drains which finish and open on the right and left sides of the road into an open cobbled drain
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    I had a look at the 1901 census for Greville Street to find that ALL of the premises on both sides were owned by Lord Greville!!

Who pays the Ferryman?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Google van Tootle ?? - goo.gl/maps/ti0gV - the house with the white chimney behind and below. Best seen from the other side of the footbridge which was presumably built to replace the ferry.
  • DannyM8 said:
    It was December 1806 before the canal reached Mullingar..................Passengers travelling between Dublin and Mullingar in 1807 were charged 12/6d. for first class and 7/7d. for second class. The duration of the journey was twelve hours. Initially there were two sailings each day in each direction. www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography... I would have thought that twelve hours was a good deal.
  • John Spooner said:
    Nowhere near this end of the canal, but I liked this report in Freeman's Journal on August 18th 1843
    CAUTION TO BATHERS Between five and six o'clock yesterday evening, an hour in which the locality is much frequented by the public, two soldiers of the 72nd Highlanders proceeded to bathe in the Royal Canal, Blacquiere Bridge, Circular-road, to the great annoyance of numerous passengers. Mr. Falkner, of Mount Falkner, whose house is next to the place, promptly and most properly at once interfered, and gave the outragers of common decency in custody to the police.
    Thank goodness for Mr Falkner.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Greatdown Footbridge (no real info there, unfortunately).
  • Stuart said:
    Niall McAuley "1 mile and 4 furlongs long" - how quaint, should have said "1 and a half miles long" instead.