Blackadder Hotel, Ballynahinch, Co. Galway
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Blackadder Hotel? Who would have thought that Blackadder would have gone forth from West Galway and from such a beautiful setting. This is up there with the most scenic Lawrence photographs we have seen.
With thanks today to sharon.corbet, B-59, beachcomber, and guliolopez we have been able to map this image to the Angler's Return Hotel near Toombeola, County Galway. We also learned that Walter Blackadder (innkeeper and head of the Ballynahinch trout and salmon fishery) was well known in fishing and game circles in that part of the world for some years. The consensus is that this image is unlikely to be before 1895 (when Blackadder possibly took-over as both local innkeeper and gamekeeper)....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c.1865-1914 (though possibly after 1895)
NLI Ref: L_CAB_06995
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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With thanks today to sharon.corbet, B-59, beachcomber, and guliolopez we have been able to map this image to the Angler's Return Hotel near Toombeola, County Galway. We also learned that Walter Blackadder (innkeeper and head of the Ballynahinch trout and salmon fishery) was well known in fishing and game circles in that part of the world for some years. The consensus is that this image is unlikely to be before 1895 (when Blackadder possibly took-over as both local innkeeper and gamekeeper)....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: c.1865-1914 (though possibly after 1895)
NLI Ref: L_CAB_06995
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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sharon.corbet
The Hotel is still there as the Angler's Rest. (Streetview.)
B-59
The Anglers Return www.anglersreturn.com/accommodations.php
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
A snippet from a book 'Connemara: Listening to the Wind' by Tim Robinson -
From - books.google.com.au/books?id=d1ZlN7I0VooC&pg=PT362&am... So post 1895 ?oaktree_brian_1976
that is a nice photo
guliolopez
According to this extract from the Royal Commission on Irish Inland Fisheries, Blackadder may have left by 1900. Certainly no Blackadder appears in the 1901 census for County Galway. (In fact, there are only a half-dozen Blackadder families in the entire country for the 1901 census. Most in Dublin or Antrim...) It doesn't push down the upper-date however, as it seems likely it was still called "Blackadders" for some period after. (In the Fisheries Commission report one of those giving evidence refers to it as "Blackadders" even though - in the same page of evidence - Blackadder is acknowledged as having left...) To my eye, the attire of the man (poser?) in the boat would suggest early 1900s....
La Belle Province
I love Mr. Blackadder's boating hat. You think he might've chosen a boater.
marielouisebalaresque
Superbe.
rich lewis
Great capture
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
Gopi Sutar
Beautiful
waewduan4
Congrats !!
SealieE
Love these old photos -- thanks so much for posting!!
Toni P. Juan
Very nice old capture!!! Congrats on Explore.
le cabri
Perfect
paolotrapella
Nice..