At Achill Beg. [i.e. Achillbeg] Co. Mayo

At Achill Beg. [i.e. Achillbeg] Co. Mayo

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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Laffan, P. J., photographer
Contributors: Federation of Local History Societies (Ireland)
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Summary:The Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991 was a project where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing topography of the selected locations.
In collection: The Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991
Format: Photo
Published / Created: [between 1990-1991].
Subjects:
Drowning victims > Ireland > 1990-2000.
Islands > Ireland > 1990-2000.
Mayo (Ireland : County) > 1990-2000.
Achillbeg Island (Ireland) > 1990-2000.
Photographic prints > 1990-2000.
Notes:This monument was erected in the memory of 32 young people who drowned in Clew Bay in 1894. It was common for the inhabitants of the island to participate in migratory labour in order to supplement their families income. The labourers who went to Scotland to pick potatoes were known as 'tattie hokers'. The group were on the way to meet a steamer at Westport to take them to Scotland for the potato harvest when the hooker (small boat) overturned. Their bodies were brought home on the first train that arrived in Achill, this fulfilled Brian Rua O'Cearbhains prophesy that "carts on iron wheels" would carry bodies into Achill on their first and last journey. Ironically the last train into Achill station broughthome the remains of Irish potatoes pickers who died in a fire in their accommodation in Kirkintilloch, Scotland in 1937.

Sunny

Film number: 49; Frame number: 24

This is Kildavnet graveyard. Also the site of a large famine grave plot.

Taken at 12.30, 3 June 1991

Physical description: 1 photograph.

Geographic Coverage: Achill Island, County Mayo, Province of Connacht, Ireland.

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Contained in: At Achill Beg. [i.e. Achillbeg] Co. Mayo

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