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Ooo! Mr French / Lawrence went there too. Spot the Differences!
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000335870

Edit - And another, Royal plate with flags and a Dog - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000325792

Mr French / Lawrence went to the Rectory / Parsonage to take this reverse-ish view (see comments from nine years(!) ago) -

The bearded man looks like Edward Nangle, but he left Achill in 1852 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Nangle (warning - not a happy story)

The church is called St. Thomas's, the dia puts it at 1852, nearly 20 years later than the 'colony' nearby.

Niall McAuley Yes. Wiki has 1855 for the church opening ...
St. Thomas Church
In 1848, a site was obtained for a new church in Dugort. The church was eventually erected with the aid of funds from a widow in Cheltenham, England who had donated a sum of £2,400. On 18 March 1855, St. Thomas Church was opened for divine service by Bishop Plunkett.[9] The service was attended by 500 people including one convert of 107 years of age who walked five miles to attend.
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Nangle#St._Thomas_Church

Looks like a Back-end-of-a-bus view - goo.gl/maps/t4VcLivGeg9BxybD9

There's a good café about 6 doors up. I always stop there when I'm in Swinford.

The nearest Mellets are in 1911 in Foxford

Also, Gnomes of Zurich is a bit of a stretch, surely? He might just as easily be a Bermuda Triangle or a Servant of Cthulhu.

Interestingly, Market street has moved from being this street when this photo was taken, to being now what was then chapel street. The Pawnbrokers on market street (i.e. possibly the one in this image) in 1901 were David and George Meade. Edit: In 1911, all the bankers lived on Main Street, which according to the OSI was not in fact a thing. So perhaps market street in the census is where market street is today, and not the street shown above.

High St.

horse poop and barefoot child. mix of slate and thatch too. the town awaits drains and utility poles. can't see a dog. The image doesn't sell the dreams of a rural/small market town idyll

Foxglove Seeing an old Dog around here is a thing of the past!

Remarkably unchanged over the years, most of the buildings still stand. Hard to believe that a small street designed for the horse and cart a century ago today serves as part of the N84 Galway/Castlebar main road with all its heavy traffic. The modern street view looks a lot cleaner than the rather squalid looking street of the photo, despite modern pollution.

Beautiful Photo and Album.