General View, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
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It is not often I give the whole summary over to one comment, but, today is one of those days. Take a bow Professor Dr O Mac
Dr O Mac "All that washing? There's a widow, Ellen Dixon/Dickson/Diroon(sic), who works a "laundry" in a house on the Quay with 3 windows, between a house with 3 windows and a house with 6 windows---so this has to be Airmount House as on OSI.
She's there washing clothes with her "trainee" servants in 1901 but no sign of her---- or the poor servants in 1911. Photograph therefore pre 1911.
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A Bridget Rossiter lived in the little house with the 3 windows and a Anastasia Kelly, a publican, lived the house with the 6 windows."
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between ca. 1900-1911
NLI Ref: EAS_3676
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Dr O Mac "All that washing? There's a widow, Ellen Dixon/Dickson/Diroon(sic), who works a "laundry" in a house on the Quay with 3 windows, between a house with 3 windows and a house with 6 windows---so this has to be Airmount House as on OSI.
She's there washing clothes with her "trainee" servants in 1901 but no sign of her---- or the poor servants in 1911. Photograph therefore pre 1911.
See Links in the comment below
A Bridget Rossiter lived in the little house with the 3 windows and a Anastasia Kelly, a publican, lived the house with the 6 windows."
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between ca. 1900-1911
NLI Ref: EAS_3676
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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sharon.corbet
I think this was taken from the Castle, looking across the river to Vinegar Hill. OSI Map.
sharon.corbet
A more up-to-date photo (as streetview didn't visit the top of the castle...)
John Spooner
The building on the left, next to a smaller building and then a wall with an arched doorway, then further buildings whose windows match, appears to be what is now "Pa's New and Used Furniture" Streetview
DannyM8
The Battle of Vinegar Hill (Irish: Cath Chnoc Fhíodh na gCaor), was an engagement during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on 21 June 1798 when over 15,000 British soldiers launched an attack on Vinegar Hill outside Enniscorthy, County Wexford, the largest camp and headquarters of the Wexford United Irish rebels. It marked a turning point in the rebellion, as it was the last attempt by the rebels to hold and defend ground against the British military. The battle was actually fought in two locations: on Vinegar Hill itself and in the streets of nearby Enniscorthy.
Niall McAuley
I think we should be able to see the red-bricked AIB building below in Slaney Place. The DIA says it was built in 1897-98. NIAH says nope - more like 1902-05
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] The NIAH claims "post-1914" in one paragraph, but then says 1902-1905 later.
Niall McAuley
The bank is on the OSI 25", surveyed 1903.
O Mac
The Convent and Mission House date from 1860/70 www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...
Swordscookie
It's a lovely clean and neat view in comparison with today. The traffic is at a minimum, the boats tied up at the quay and the clean lines on the far side leading up to Vinegar Hill!
O Mac
And the Quakers meeting house built in 1797 is the oldest building in Enniscorthy still used for its original purpose. quakers-in-wexford.ie/photo-gallery/
sharon.corbet
There's a colourised version of a very similar photo. (The horses are definitely in different positions.)
Niall McAuley
Reverse view, no bank, in archive
Niall McAuley
Reverse view with bank in archive. This shows I was wrong - the bank originally had two tall chimneys, which are the ones visible at the bottom of our shot. These were removed since (maybe in the 1960s).
O Mac
All that washing? There's a widow, Ellen Dixon/Dickson/Diroon(sic), who works a "laundry" in a house on the Quay with 3 windows, between a house with 3 windows and a house with 6 windows---so this has to be Airmount House as on OSI. She's there washing clothes with her "trainee" servants in 1901 but no sign of her---- or the poor servants in 1911. Photograph therefore pre 1911. www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Wexford/Ennisco... www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001271504/ A Bridget Rossiter lived in the little house with the 3 windows and an Anastasia Kelly, a publican, lived in the house with the 6 windows. The Kelly's and Rossiter's are still there in 1911.
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Fabulous! All those sheets were intriguing me.
en_la_bici
beautiful!
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] A slightly red herring - the convicts from this 1898 Vinegar Hill battle were exiled-without-trial to Australia, where there was another battle of Vinegar Hill in 1804, only six years later. "It was the first and only major convict uprising in Australian history." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Hill_convict_rebellion .
DannyM8
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia You learn something new here every day. well found. It was like an "Away Match"