A visit to the Mason Collection today and to a very fancy "Hatters Castle" type dwelling in County Westmeath. While it looks formidable those windows and doors probably indicate that it was never intended to repel anything other than the weather. Is it still standing and where is/was it?
sharon.corbet raises interesting points. Firstly she thinks that this photo is reversed and I am inclined to agree with her. Secondly she believes this photo is some form of a cropped (and reversed) version of
L_CAB_03197 and again we fully accept her proposition.
The above points do beg the question as to the relationships between the different photographers, why? how? does Mason end up with a Lawrence generated negative?
sharon.corbet DannyM8 O Mac Niall McAuley BeachcomberAustralia I think it is a dog and he/she has moved before
L_CAB_03198 was snapped.
Collection:
Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref:
M24/61/13
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O Mac
Clonyn Castle maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,659496,763042,11,9 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonyn_Castle
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] is sometimes amazing... www.flickr.com/photos/photographicstate/3362345713/in/pho...
Carol Maddock
Bualadh bos, https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03! And lovely 'lliteration, Mary!
Niall McAuley
Per the NIAH: built between 1867-76 ... One of the last great Victorian castles/country houses to be built in Ireland during a period when the great houses were in terminal decline.
Niall McAuley
Built for Lord Greville, see yesterdays notes for details on him.
Niall McAuley
Perhaps this 32 windower in the 1901 census? Still no Grevilles, just staff, with Richard Taylor the Butler as Head of Household.
Niall McAuley
Not even a Butler by 1911, just a 75 year old housekeeper and a gamekeeper.
Foxglove
at last my knights! Camelot !
Niall McAuley
Google plebview.
sharon.corbet
We've come across it before: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/28617896433/
sharon.corbet
This picture seems to be reversed, the small extension should be on the left of the front door, not the right, as in the Lawrence photo, and in the "additional views" on the NIAH page https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley linked to above.
sharon.corbet
In fact, I suspect it is a cropped, reversed version of this Lawrence photo.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 is always amazing! Well done the Professor!
O Mac
Do I see a dog on the porch or is it a wee pawn to go with this rook?
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 I was trying to figure that out earlier. I think it is a dog that moved its head during the exposure, but I'm not certain. Whatever it is, it's not in all the photos of Clonyn Castle.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Could be, a black dog sitting looking at the camera.
DannyM8
It might be a dog, then again it might not.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Perhaps they were cloning in Clonyn. You never know what you'll find once you start delving in Delvin. The Beast from Westmeath!
KenjiB_48
I wonder if one still had to get a License (Licence) to Crenellate at that time ;-)
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77603809@N02 Ken, I will send a note to the County Council :)
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thank you for the comments, summary and map have been updated.