"Scene near Rathfarnham, Dublin" - is Grange Golf Club
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We are off to the leafy suburbs of South Dublin today courtesy of the Eason collection. I am fully expecting that we can identify the location, the names of the 3 men, the make and model of the fancy motor car and finally the date on which this photo was taken!
With usual aplomb (we're barely surprised any more), today's contributors established that this is almost certainly Grange Golf Club in Rathfarnham, most likely captured in the mid-1930s (probably after the new club house opened in 1935), and the car pictured possibly a mid-1930s Morris Motors automobile....
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Between ca. 1900-1939 (possibly mid-1930s)
NLI Ref: EAS_1906
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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With usual aplomb (we're barely surprised any more), today's contributors established that this is almost certainly Grange Golf Club in Rathfarnham, most likely captured in the mid-1930s (probably after the new club house opened in 1935), and the car pictured possibly a mid-1930s Morris Motors automobile....
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Between ca. 1900-1939 (possibly mid-1930s)
NLI Ref: EAS_1906
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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BultacoFan
The height of the car's headlights suggests a date of at least, let's say, 1925. I'm going to suggest it might be a medium-large Morris, perhaps a Ten Four.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/bultacofan thank you.
O Mac
I see golf clubs.
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There are a few options in Rathfarnham if it is golf? https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Similar white 5-rail iron fence at Rathfarnham Golf Club in 1936 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000601331 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000601330
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Morris Ten earliest 1932 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Ten Not 100% convinced as they had wire wheels ...
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia If it is Rathfarnham Golf Club, I know that they used to be beside the Dodder river but there is a shopping center on that site now. The club moved to a new course a few miles away. I would think the move was late 1960's or early 1970's.
Niall McAuley
If this is the golf course by the Dodder, then here is the 25" map: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,714118,728921,11,9, but the trees look wrong...
DannyM8
I am thinking it could be The Grange Golf Club
DannyM8
historicalpicturearchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Q... Could be right? There are not many photos of the old Club House on the Web! A better view historicalpicturearchive.com/product/grange-golf-club-rat... I think it is the same photo as ours?
DannyM8
catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=grange+golf&t... In the above from the archive - most things fit, I think this is earlier with a wall instead of the railings?
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06 I agree
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06 Yay!
oaktree_brian_1976
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] or a Twelve? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Twelve. Dating the photo to 1930-1935 ish
Niall McAuley
Name: BRADBURY & EVANS Building: CO. DUBLIN, RATHFARNHAM, GRANGE GOLF CLUB Date: 1934 Nature: Additions & alterations. Proposed design for enlargement of pavilion submitted to Dublin Board of Public Health, Mar 1934. Refs: IAA, PKS 0991; Dublin Public Health Housing Collection, No. 1258 (in possession of Fingal County Council, 2016).
Niall McAuley
Club website: At the AGM a proposal to spend £995 to extend the clubhouse was passed, the alterations to the clubhouse were completed and the 18 hole course was officially opened on 26th September 1935.
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Excellent work all. We didn't reach the (obviously tongue in cheek) goal of naming the men pictured. However, if they are the same men as pictured in the 1936 Independent image, perhaps that might yet occur. Otherwise thanks to today's inputs we're able to ring the location, subject and "date refined" klaxons. It seems very likely that, as suggested, this image was taken shortly after the opening of the new clubhouse in the mid-1930s....
robinbenn1
Definitely Grange Golf Club. I'm sitting in the replacement clubhouse as I post this. Rathfarnham Golf Club is now at Newtown on Stocking Lane and used to be where Fairways Estate is now by the Dodder River and Rathfarnham shopping centre.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/145901063@N07 Thank you for your comment. I have deleted the "likely" from the title on foot of your definitive identification.
robinbenn1
No worries. I'm sure there is a copy of that photo on display in the new clubhouse somewhere. Next time I'm there I'll take a look...