Moorland among bare hills, turf-rick, 3 people, in foreground, Connemara, Co. Galway
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| In collection: | The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection |
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[between ca. 1860-1883].
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| Notes: | Research by our Flickr Commons users established that this photograph was taken on the road between Letterfrack and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/47380161572/ The Stereo Pairs Collection consists of negatives acquired and distributed by William Lawrence, but not created by the Lawrence firm. The images in the collection were created by Dublin photographers, James Simonton and Frederick Holland Mares. Physical description: 1 stereographic negative : glass ; 17 x 9.5 cm Geographic Coverage: Connemara, County Galway, Province of Connacht, Ireland. more |
Yesterday we had a couple bringing home the turf and today we have people living on the bog with a straight road leading off to the distant hills. The cataloguer seems to have been under the impression that the people were leaning on a rick of turf but it looks more like their home to me! Do you agree and where is it?
Whether temporary or otherwise, the general consensus is that this is a picture dwelling. And O Mac has expertly pinpointed it to the road between Letterfrack and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_1413
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Tags:
Lawrence Collection, Stereographic negatives, James Simonton, Frederick Holland Mares, John Fortune Lawrence, William Mervyn Lawrence, National Library of Ireland, Bog, Moorland, house, turf, peat, rick, road, hills, County Galway, Location identified, Sod house, Bothán, Hut, Shack, Bunnaboghee, Connemara, Letterfrack, Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection, Stereo Pairs
Comments
Niall McAuley
Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...
Posted: 21.03.2019
John A. Coffey
Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.
Posted: 21.03.2019
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.
Posted: 21.03.2019
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/65379774@N02] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography] I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.
Posted: 21.03.2019
robinparkes
It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.
Posted: 21.03.2019
Niall McAuley
They might not live in it year round, they might just come up to the bog to cut turf.
Posted: 21.03.2019
KenjiB_48
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Sod houses were not uncommon among early settlers in the western part of the USA, not limited to Irish families. They were usually temporary quarters until funds and materials were available for building more conventional dwellings.
Posted: 21.03.2019
jamica1
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Also in Canada www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sod-houses
Posted: 21.03.2019
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley/
They might not live in it year round, they might just come up to the bog to cut turf. You can tell by their latest fashionable attire, they live in a castle, when they are not vacationing here.
Posted: 21.03.2019
O Mac
Little did they know that that's the N59... heading into Letterfrack. The photographer took the photo to the right of where the Google car was when taking this Streetview.
www.google.com/maps/@53.5584758,-9.9327176,3a,44.4y,57.34...
Posted: 22.03.2019
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Well done
Posted: 22.03.2019
Niall McAuley
These one-room botháns were common before the Famine, but much less common 15-35 years later, the timeframe for this picture. One use for them was migrant workers who moved where they could find work and built them there - harvesting at one time of year, turf another.
Posted: 22.03.2019
Niall McAuley
You can see the cottage built at an angle to the road on the right on the GeoHive 25" around 1900, and by then a Basket Weaving business is on this corner.
Posted: 22.03.2019
philfluther
Maybe bog-oak. Isn't a divining rod? 'Beggars can't be choosers' proverb.
Posted: 07.04.2019
