River and weir at Ballyshannon
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Where: Donegal, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1880
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Leaving the French nobility behind, today we visit rural Ireland in the Stereo Pairs collection. This fine view of a river with bridge and weir has a super POV and is very nicely composed. The masses of wild flowers in the foreground make it quite idyllic, but we questioned whether the weir standing up to a winter flood....
.... and indeed the weir is now gone from (as the team have established) this stretch of the River Erne near Ballyshannon.
Thanks to sharon.corbet, beachcomberaustralia, derangedlemur, and Vab2009 for the contributions - and especially O Mac for establishing the location and Niall McAuley for helping refine the date. Have a great weekend all!
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: ca. 1860-1883 (but likely 1878-1882)
NLI Ref: STP_2370
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.... and indeed the weir is now gone from (as the team have established) this stretch of the River Erne near Ballyshannon.
Thanks to sharon.corbet, beachcomberaustralia, derangedlemur, and Vab2009 for the contributions - and especially O Mac for establishing the location and Niall McAuley for helping refine the date. Have a great weekend all!
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: ca. 1860-1883 (but likely 1878-1882)
NLI Ref: STP_2370
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
This similar shot claims to be of Strabane, Co. Tyrone.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Is it Londonderry? Trying to reconcile the bridge and spires ...
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129555378@N07 It's certainly similar - the church is in the right place and orientation, for example, but there's not that many piers on the bridge now, and there isn't on the 6" survey either.
derangedlemur
The magic of streetview makes it look a lot less like Strabane. I think it's somewhere else.
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02 Yeah, I've been looking elsewhere too.
O Mac
It's Ballyshannon , Co Donegal. Streetview
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] A Lawrence version from the same angle. ETA: Make that two...
O Mac
French took a few from the same spot. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000040530 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339883 and a zoomable catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000520039
Vab2009
Another view of it digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:10671
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[Cancel Londonderry ! ] A new "bridge was originally constructed in 1946/7 to replace an important fourteen arch bridge, built c. 1680 and widened c. 1850, that was demolished as part of the Cathleen's Falls Hydroelectric Scheme (see 40852084). Five arches at the north end of this earlier bridge were demolished to accommodate the tailrace of this scheme. The surviving arches to the south end of the bridge were apparently later infilled and the road was subsequently widened. The stone for the cladding apparently came from demolished buildings in the Ballyshannon area (O'Keefe and Simington 1991), including from the Rock Barracks to the south side of the town. It is likely that much of the fabric of the earlier bridge was also reused to clad the present bridge. ... " From - www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...
Niall McAuley
The polygonal apse on St. Patrick's is from 1860.
sharon.corbet
25" OSI
Niall McAuley
This former bank building, clearly visible here, is from 1878.
O Mac
There is an elaborate fish pass with a bailiffs tower to be seen in the Lawerance photo. I wonder when it was built? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000520039
Niall McAuley
I think we should maybe see the courthouse if it was there, built in 1881-82.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] Here's a painting from the 1930's/40's with the equivalent of Flickr Notes on it. It claims the weir is called Corry McGinty, and wasn't used after WWI.
O Mac
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129555378@N07 Thanks. I couldnt figure out whether the little stone tower was there before or after the pitched roof house seen above.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Ballyshannon it is then! Based on the dates which [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] suggests, our photographer would have to wait another few years before heading to the well-advertised Ballyshannon Agriculture Show. Thanks all!
O Mac
The Popularity of the Eel in Ballyshannon www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/21336260038/in/datepos... Fishing Weirs of the River Erne Arthur E. J. Went The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol. 75, No. 4 (Dec., 1945), pp. 213-223
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View in 2013: goo.gl/maps/9a8VtJ9TEkm
silverio10
Una buena serie de fotos antiguas .