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Islands in the mist from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2025
Keeping watch so the fairies stay on their side of the bridge from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded August 2025
Reflections on times past from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2025
One man and an island from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2023
Telephone, Television but all preceded by Telegraph Towers from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded October 2023
Heights are in feet above sea level from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded October 2023
Man of Steel from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded July 2023
Oh to be in Kenmare now that summers here! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2023
Not a Yawl in sight! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2023
Still hanging in there? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2022
To the sea for a day out from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded July 2022
Amerikkay over the way from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2022
Parasols, bare feet and pinafores from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded April 2022
So good they named it twice! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2021
A dry stone wall to hold back the tide? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2021

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To the sea for a day out

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30 older comments, and then…
beachcomber australia said:
There is a reverse view which says it is . . . . . . .
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000298941
beachcomber australia said:
Front Strand View - goo.gl/maps/V9qgEPTc6D4pVRg67
beachcomber australia said:
Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2017 via John Finn
beachcomber australia said:
Yikes! Mr French / Lawrence was there also. Who was first? Spot the differences!
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316083
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000316085
Bernard Healy said:
I was curious about the ABC Tearooms. Not a branch of the British Aerated Bread Co. chain whose tea rooms were a major feature of many towns & cities from the late Victorian era through much of the 20th century, but rather a cafe owned by a Cork businessman Alfred Cole books.google.ie/books?id=zomQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&lpg=... and his family. Cole was in partnership with an Alcox & a Brown in a Cork grocery concern, thus the ABC Cafe, as we see in the French photo. In the O’Connor photo we see that it’s a tearoom - one has to suspect that the inspiration might come from the chain restaurant.

Telephone, Television but all preceded by Telegraph Towers

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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beachcomber australia said:
From the shadow in the satellite photo, still standing. I hoped for a googleball or two, but no - www.google.com/maps/place/Mutton+Island/@52.8113102,-9.53...
beachcomber australia said:

Click through for a more detailed phote and history here - kilkee.clareheritage.org/topics/military-trail/mutton-isl...
Suck Diesel said:
Some history www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/island-archive/archive/eu... “In the late 1700's a telegraph watchtower and keep were built there by the coastguard to keep vigil for a French invasion that never happened!”
John Spooner said:
Morning Chronicle - Saturday 17 August 1805:
We understand that the great chain of signal towers; or defensible. posts, building on the Coast of Ireland, under the inspection of Major-General PAYNE, are nearly finished, and that the following are already complete, viz. in the County Kerry, Bolus Head,' Brea Head, Great Blaskets, Sybil Head, Ballydavid head, and Kerry Head.---In the County Clare, Knocknagarroon, Hags Head, Baltard, and Cahircrohane, or Loops Head.-That on Mutton 'Island, situated also in the County Clare, between Hags 'Head and Baltard, building by -Mr. Maher, will be complete in a few days. Hags Head is occupied by a detachment under a Naval Officer. ' The Post on Hog Island, in the River Shannon, when built, will complete the' chain of defensible guard houses in Limerick District.
Do any of the other watchtowers mentioned still exist, I wonder?
John Spooner said:
A couple of decades later, Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier - Tuesday 08 August 1826
The signal tower, houses, and ground, occupied by the coast-guard on Mutton-Island, County Clare, are ordered to be let by the Commissioners of Customs.

Waiting for the Naval Brigade...

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Suck Diesel said:
Land? League House on right
Niall McAuley said:
Streetview of what is now O'Curry Street.
Niall McAuley said:
Fashions suggest after 1900 to me.
George FitzPatrick said:
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339328 Reverse view with donkey and little box cart. Same type of one above with rear door open side walls of box look thick. Insulated ? Pavement looks to be wet beside it. Delivering ice ? There is also a few posters in left hand window of the Clare Bar.
beachcomber australia said:
Why don't trees grow in Killkee?