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Earl Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 17 older comments, and then…
• B-59 said:

  Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/MhywBh5gmWr

• Foxglove said:

  oh my first thought was "BOLIVIA" !! :-) the original source of the potato mmmmm

• Swordscookie said:

  Foxglove Me too! I notice the boy with the white collar on the right is carrying a basket similar to the one my Dad used when he was working on the the railway. He would carry his lunch and necessities in it with his "journals" where he noted the accounts of the times and places he would go to!

• B-59 said:

  Now Pearse Street According to mullingarhistory.wordpress.com/mullingar-town-council-blogs/, Earl Street appears to have been named in honour of the new Landlord of Mullingar, Colonel Greville, who had purchased the town in 1858. In 1920-21, streets were re-named after patriot dead and other suitable figures.

• Niall McAuley said:

  We see the gable of #18 at right, built in 1870. If it was built, we would see the bay window of 20-22, built around 1890.