Glen Inagh, Recess, Co. Galway
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[between ca. 1865-1914].
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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/52340446038 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 ; 31 x 25 cm Geographic Coverage: Recess, County Galway, Province of Connacht, Ireland. more |
By now you may be looking for a wee recess rather than another visit to Recess in County Galway but this beautiful Imperial Plate just could not be passed. The view of the Bens with Lough Inagh and the lounger on the rock are so good we just couldn't pass them by!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_1364
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Robert French, William Lawrence, Lawrence Collection, Lawrence Photographic Studio, Glass Negative, National Library of Ireland, Lough Inagh, Recess, Co. Galway, Connacht, The twelve Bens, Humanity Dick, Sea Trout, Salmon, Brown Trout, Angling, Gillies, Lough Inagh Lodge, Lawrence Photograph Collection
Comments
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
It is difficult to get a 'now' photo of this view because the Lough Inagh Lodge has expanded and planted a garden and many trees. Closest I can find is this from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/55972209@N06/] in 2008 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/55972209@N06/5184373755/]
Google satellite 3D - www.google.com/maps/place/Lough+Inagh+Lodge/@53.5228846,-...
Posted: 07.09.2022
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
That boat moored by the road; it must have been a very high tide!
Posted: 07.09.2022
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
"Lough Inagh Lodge was built on the shores of Lough Inagh in the 1880. It was part of the Martin Estate (Richard “Humanity Dick” Martin of Ballynahinch Castle) as one of its fishing lodges. It was later purchased by Richard Berridge, a London brewer who used the building as a fishing lodge in the 1880’s. It passed through the hands of the Tennent family, and then to Carroll Industries until 1989 it was redeveloped by the O’Connor family back to its’ former glory into a modern bespoke boutique lodge."
From - www.loughinaghlodgehotel.ie/en/history-hotel/
Ed. Includes cropped Lawrence photos
Posted: 07.09.2022
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
I have stayed there a few times, a very nice experience.
Posted: 07.09.2022
John Spooner
A quick scan of newspapers of the 1880s gives the impression that Richard Berridge's main occupation when visiting his Irish estate was not fishing but evicting tenants (albeit through his agent and agent's clerk). He died in 1887 and his properties in England and Ireland passed to his son RIchard.
A lengthy telegram from Freeman's Journal's 'own special correspondent' in Recess published on Tuesday 20 April 1886 and subtitled 'The Crowbar Brigade at Work' includes this character reference: "The landlord responsible for this inhuman work is Mr. Richard Berridge, money-lender of broker, living in London; his agent is Mr George J Robinson JP [...] The property in question extends over two-thirds of Connemara". The previous day had been devoted to dispossessing tenants "at Cloonisle and other places adjacent to Recess".
Posted: 07.09.2022
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
There is a later (tin roof where the straw roof over the stables) photo full frontal reverse view. Titled as "Hotel, Glen Inagh, Recess 6991 W.L.". When did the lodge become a hotel? - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000333693
Posted: 07.09.2022
John Spooner
In 1882 the cost of fishing licences of Ballynahinch Fishery (obtainable from Mr George J Robinson JP) were:
Tickets for the whole season - £50 Tickets for the lunar month - £8 Tickets for the week - £2 10s Tickets for the day - 10sThe fishery extended from Lough Inagh to the sea, a distance of fifteen miles and comprised the rivers and lakes of Inagh, Derryclare, Ballynahinch, Ballynafar, Glendalough, Attery and Orrid,. There were very strict rules - you could only fish from the place allocated to you by the head keeper. The ticket included hire of a boat, but not the wages of a boatmen (which was not to exceed 2s per day). Only water bailiffs appointed by the head keeper could be employed. [from a notice in Fishing Gazette on Saturday 15 April 1882]
Posted: 07.09.2022
DannyM8
I took this in 2020, hill walking and biking are big draws today along with the angling.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06/50164372817]
Posted: 07.09.2022
Swordscookie
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Is that you lounging on the rock? If so you're wearing well:-)
Posted: 07.09.2022
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] I didn’t think anybody would recognise me! :-)
Posted: 07.09.2022
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/] Well, it was called ‘Inagh Hotel’ on the later 6”, no 25” available
Posted: 07.09.2022
Deirge (Del)
Using google maps have found on Historic Environment viewer maps.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/ that the building is NIAH Reg No. 30402406 and is described at www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30402... as originally a fishing and hunting lodge
Posted: 07.09.2022
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/] The same Robinson who was the agent with the crowbar mentioned earlier.
I supposed they owned the birds of the air as well?
Posted: 07.09.2022
suckindeesel
Only the master managed to catch a view of the lodge, the lake and the mountains in the one shot.
None of the Flickr shots of the hotel achieved that
Posted: 07.09.2022
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06/] There your are
[https://flic.kr/p/2nKbqDt]
Posted: 07.09.2022
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] I can't find any evidence of shooting there in the late 19th century, but in 1830 a John McAuley opened a hotel at Roundstone and advertised that "Gentlemen stopping at his Hotel have the privilege of Shooting and Fishing over the extensive Estates of Thomas Martin Esq. of Ballinahinch".
So yes, the birds as well.
Edit. from Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser - Saturday 16 October 1858. It's that man Robinson again
Posted: 07.09.2022
Niall McAuley
A 1923 reference in the DIA is not much help, except to note Estimated cost for restoration of interior and exterior, £6,217. For Midland Great Western Railway Co.
Posted: 07.09.2022
Niall McAuley
No hotel keepers in 1911, the house is owned by Richard R. Berridge, and only Caretaker Mary Anne Ireland in residence.
Posted: 07.09.2022
Niall McAuley
No Hoteliers in 1901 either, the house is occupied by Pat and Bridet Walsh, farmers, and their 2 daughters.
Posted: 07.09.2022
John Spooner
The Inagh Hotel advertised between 18th February 1893 (new proprietress formerly at Glendalough) and 18th August 1894. Prospective guests were advised to write or wire to M. Mullarkey. Perhaps a short-lived enterprise.
The 1882 advert in The Field specifying prices for fishing licences says that 'superior accommodation can be had by applying to Mr T Mullarkey at Glendalough Hotel, Recess'. Elsewhere there is mention of enquiring to Mr Mullarkey at Glendalough Hotel or Mullarkey's at Clifden.
I see that there's now a Mullarkey's Bar (within Foyle's Hotel) in Clifden.
Posted: 07.09.2022
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/] 1911 records one extra room and four more windows
Posted: 07.09.2022
Niall McAuley
There is an entry in the calendar of wills for Terence Mullarkey late of Clifden Co. Galway Hotel Keeper died 5th January 1888 at Glendalough, granted to Honoria Mullarkey the Widow for £143
Honoria died in 1892, son Hubert present. The names and dates suggest this ancestry dot co dot uk page is accurate.
In the calendar of wills for Honoria, Mary Kate (a daughter per the ancestry page) was an Executor.
The Inagh venture immediately follows?
Posted: 07.09.2022
John Spooner
H Mullarkey was still the proprietor of Mullarkey's Hotel in Clifden in 1896 (advert in The Social Review (Dublin) - Saturday 18 July 1896) but was it was due to be auctioned in February 1897, with the Midland Railway favourite to take it over (Freeman's Journal - Thursday 11 February 1897).
PS. Mullarkey's Clifden was actually purchased by a Major Hackett, who had previously managed the Midland's Railway's hotel ("magnificent building") at Galway. (Freeman's Journal - Thursday 02 September 1897)
Posted: 07.09.2022
O Mac
That may well be Jaunty and his sidecar under the gable.
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000336021
Posted: 07.09.2022
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] could be.
Posted: 07.09.2022
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] imho not Jaunty, because of the mo and the not-very-well-tailored clothes ...
Golly, it's all so confusing!
Look out, he's got a gun! Evidence of shooting - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559937
Posted: 07.09.2022
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/] I wonder what poor animal he intended to murder with that punt gun.
That could almost be the quay at the end of the path between the lodge and the lake in our photo.
Islands and mountains look similar, more so if stereo were reversed?
Posted: 08.09.2022
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/] Martin (original land owner), Berridge and the Law Life Assurance Co. all also featured in our other Recess photo
‘the vast Martin estate, was owned by the Law Life Assurance Society which had seized the Martin lands in lieu of considerable unpaid debts. In 1872 Richard Berridge, a London brewer, bought 160,000 acres making him the largest land owner in Ireland.* He generously gave all the land that MGWR required, but he never got much thanks for it as relations between the company and himself were rarely amicable.’
www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/127151/how-galway-lost-t...
That was in relation to 20 miles of the Galway to Clifton line.
Posted: 08.09.2022
