Rockingham Golf House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
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Notes: | Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/51191932480/ Robert French was the chief photographer responsible for photographing three quarters of the Lawrence Collection. For more information, see the Dictionary of Irish Biography: http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a3369 Physical description: 1 negative : glass ; 22 x 17 cm Geographic Coverage: Boyle, County Roscommon, Province of Connacht, Ireland. Caption on glassplate reads: Golf House. Rockingham. 7333. W. L. more |
Clearly the golfer gave up trying to play his way out of that situation, and brought in the photographer to record the scene so he could shut the naysayers up in the bar in future!
The Golf House in Rockingham, Co. Roscommon looks very neat and tidy, apart from the clubs and balls on the floor, but would not accommodate much more than a foursome?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_07333
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Lawrence Royals, Robert French, William Lawrence, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Photographic Studio, Glass Negative, National Library of Ireland, Golf House, Rockingham, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Connacht, golf clubs, clock, 11:30, Roscommon, Connaught, Ireland, Golf, Toby Jug, Lawrence Photograph Collection
Comments
Foxglove
one bag of clubs was on the 13th for too long, it's 11:30 !
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
www.boyletoday.com/rockingham-golf-house/ suggests a fancy hilltop crenellated construction. Ah, that is a Lawrence shot, L_CAB_07850 in the archive.
Posted: 20.05.2021
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
🕦 Fore o'clock ?
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
Carty's Castle at the NIAH. This former hunting lodge and later golf house
Unnamed on the OSI 25" map
Posted: 20.05.2021
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
We were previously at Rockinham in 1903 (nearby catalogue number too) ... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/9522813480/]
Posted: 20.05.2021
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
And the doggies were 1903 too (in between the two catalogue numbers) ... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/12098668645/]
Posted: 20.05.2021
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Via Trove from 1904 -
Royal Residence In Ireland. A despatch from Boyle on Friday, May 20, says: Rockingham House, the country seat of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, has been inspected during the week by W. Foster, of Ashley House, London, who, it is understood, has been sent to Ireland to report on the most eligible place available as a Royal residence for the King or the Prince of Wales. He expressed himself as being better pleased with Rockingham than any other places he had visited. Rockingham was formerly the seat of Colonel King-Harman, M.P., and is situated on Lough Key, in one of the most beautiful localities in Ireland next to Killarney.From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111307239
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
Francis Lemann's
Original London
Captain Biscuits
Posted: 20.05.2021
Dún Laoghaire Micheál
An early Selfie? Is that the photographer's reflection on the teapot? (Someone in a waistcoat and white shirt facing away towards the camera)
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
The biscuit on Parry’s North Pole expedition came from Francis Lemann, a well-known bakery that supplied the Admiralty.
Posted: 20.05.2021
derangedlemur
I'd have gone with caramelised rather than captain.
Edit: No, the internet agrees that they are captain's biscuits.
Posted: 20.05.2021
derangedlemur
W.F. MEREDITH & SON ~ MEREDITH & DREW
William Meredith founded a bakery in 1830, with William Drew as his principal assistant. After a quarrel Drew set up a rival firm in High Street Shadwell: both prospered. In 1871 Henry Anthony Meredith left the partnership with William Frederick and George, then established at 58 Christian Street as steam biscuit makers. By 1890 these premises were inadequate, and the Shadwell firm too much for one man; so the founders' sons Frederick Meredith and Lear J. Drew put their quarrel aside and merged as Meredith & Drew (the agreement was endorsed in 1891, the order of their names decided by the toss of a coin). In 1892 they had an office at 181 Queen Victoria Street, and in 1896 they took on the business and premises of Francis Lemann at Field Place, St John's Street Clerkenwell and 28-29 St Swithuns Lane in the City, for £2500. They made crisps and biscuits, including one 'for cyclists' [right]. Goad's map of 1899 showed the Christian Street premises as stables, but with a series of bakers' ovens, across the road, between Christian and Brunswick Streets, in basements and under the street.
www.stgitehistory.org.uk/media/stjohnsparish.html
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
A click on the tag says this is the first image in the nli photostream tagged with "Toby Jug" !
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] The tins do seem to have those addresses, Field Place, St John's Street Clerkenwell and 28-29 St Swithuns Lane, but also a line below saying "Late of ..." some other address.
Posted: 20.05.2021
suckindeesel
NIAH entry www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/31906...
It seems to be all tea and biscuits, not like the modern 19th hole
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
The Rockingham estate was inherited by Edward Robert King-Harman (1838-1888) and then passed to his daughter, Lady Frances Isabella Anna King-Harman (died 8 October 1890).
In the Census of 1901, it is recorded as a 52-room house with 30 windows to the front, held by the Court of Chancery. Only the servants were recorded on the census return.
By the time of the Census of 1911, Rockingham House was the seat of Sir Thomas Stafford, Bart – the widowed husband of Frances King-Harman.
Posted: 20.05.2021
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Flickr is sometimes amazing! I can't find the tin, but - via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/16691383@N06/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/16691383@N06/8650532558/in/photostream/]
Posted: 20.05.2021
John Spooner
The golf house was featured in the property pages of the Irish Independent on Friday 10 September 1999. Guide price was £390,000. Among the snippets of information:
- it was the first 14-hole golf course in Ireland (yes 14 - golf is not my thing but I'd hazard a guess than anything other than 9 or 18 holes is a bit of a rarity anyway) - "Accommodation includes an entrance hall with a stone floor, L-shaped sitting room with cast-iron fireplace and shuttered windows to the front and rear looking over the lake. " - 3 bedrooms with views of the lake. One of these has a timber-panelled bath fittedBut the biggest selling point is surely this
- "the property has been featured in the Lawrence Collection of photographs in the National Library"
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
so the other address is Late of 2 Threadneedle Street
Posted: 20.05.2021
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91590691@N05] Even in supermegazoom, I don't see anything in the teapot. I see a strongly patterned china pot, with just a surface reflection of the light from a window.
Posted: 20.05.2021
Andy WXx2009
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Posted: 20.05.2021
nintytwo
I recall a book by Percy Blanford on 'Canoeing in Ireland' where he describes being in his canoe on Lough Key and was threatened by presumably the then owner of Rockingham with a shotgun for "trespassing on his lake" Ah the days of the gentry!
Posted: 21.05.2021