This old gate to the town of Clonmel which once controlled traffic entering and leaving must have become a true bottleneck with the recent proliferation of motor cars and heavy traffic? At the time this photograph was taken however it does not appear to have been too much of a problem.
Thank you all for yesterdays contributions on
Main Street, Tipperary, it was very enlightening! Thanks also for the contributions on today's image. Focusing mainly on the date, the suggestion is that it was captured in the first decade or so of the catalogue range (perhaps after 1905, or into the 1910s). Certainly the
NIAH entry on the gate itself doesn't help - in that it confirms it was built 100 years prior to this capture. That the gate has a plaque commemorating a famous son of Clonmel,
Laurence Sterne, was news to me though.....
Photographer:
Unknown
Collection:
Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1900-1939. After c.1905
NLI Ref:
EAS_3422
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at
catalogue.nli.ie
Info:
Owner:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Source:
Flickr Commons
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derangedlemur
These cars look happy enough, I think: www.google.ie/maps/@52.3524068,-7.7050085,3a,75y,257.7h,8...
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Mainly because they are parked?
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
Niall McAuley
I think the girls fashions put us in the early part of the date range
DannyM8
I see a Dog
John A. Coffey
46 O`Connell Street, James J. Hickey, Great Cheap Sale, Jan maybe ? -- No.45 Kennedys, Public House.
Niall McAuley
Thomas Condon (shop at left) was 42 in the 1911 census, not in the 1901 census here.
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] here is James John hickey in 1911 and in 1901.
Niall McAuley
Margaret Kennedy, publican, in 1911 and 1901.
Niall McAuley
EAS_3421 next door shows Clonmel, consistent fashions, the Wesleyan Manse (c. 1905) and no Manchester Martyrs memorial (c. 1905), so that one at least is c. 1905. The OS 25 inch sheet likewise has the manse but not the monument, and was surveyed in 1904.
Niall McAuley
Next door the other side, EAS_3423 has featured in this flickr stream previously:
Foxglove
I spy a dog next to the lamppost!
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Flickr is sometimes amazing - https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/ has been having fun with another West Gate photo ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/18446989790/https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/18012013044/
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Two wheels good ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanhelsing65/2515917375/
Michiel2005
First everything had to be demolished to let the cars through, now cars are bad and have to be kept outside cities. Luckily they kept their gate in Clonmel.