Gap of Dunloe, Mrs. Moriarty's, Killarney, Co. Kerry

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This fine shot of a cottage in the Gap of Dunloe for a frosty Tuesday morning. Riding up the Gap from here on a day like today would take away any cobwebs away and concentrate the mind. Robert French really could capture the atmosphere of a place and a time!

As ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq and B-59 suggest, this particular Moriarty cottage seems to have been around here. The guys point to the strong similarity in the rock-formations to the rear - and we have no reason to doubt it. It seems there were perhaps several Moriarty households in the area - and indeed we've met more than one Moriarty on our previous visits to the area. This Mrs Moriarty clearly served a burgeoning tourst trade - in a tradition which seemingly continues today...


Photographer: Robert French

Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection

Date: between ca. 1865-1914

NLI Ref: L_ROY_06972

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    simon mes

    • 23/Nov/2016 09:15:58

    Beautiful!

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 23/Nov/2016 09:17:13

    Streetview - goo.gl/maps/PuDX6KjsV812 (I think!). 'Cos of the ridge of hills behind seen a little to the right goo.gl/maps/xyubXZ53bNJ2

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    B-59

    • 23/Nov/2016 09:20:46

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I agree - I came to the same conclusion.

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    B-59

    • 23/Nov/2016 09:52:39

    But it's strange that other photos, labelled with "Gap of Dunloe, Mrs. Moriarty's, Killarney, Co. Kerry" as well, show apparently another house, s. e.g. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000337230 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000337231

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    Niall McAuley

    • 23/Nov/2016 09:59:11

    No house at that spot on the 6", 25" lets us down with a sheet missing.

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 23/Nov/2016 09:59:54

    Trove has many newspaper reports of travellers' tales from the Gap of Dunloe; this 1896 one includes a heart-warming story about a Moriarty lad ...

    ... A fine, hardy race [the locals], kind and polite in manners, honest, and industrious. Their former parish priest told me that some years ago a 'boy of the Moriartys' came to him with a pocket-book containing a large sum of money which he had picked up on the road. The clergyman went to Killarney, made inquiries at the hotels, and soon learned that an American gentleman had lost this pocket-book. The American was able to say what sum was in the book; not a shilling of this was missing, and a reward was offered to the lad who had found it. He wanted no reward, he said, but if the gentleman was so kind as to wish to help him, he would like to emigrate. He was taken into the gentleman's employment, in Boston I think, and has ever since prospered well. ...
    See the whole long article - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111100631?searchTerm=g...

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    Niall McAuley

    • 23/Nov/2016 10:00:29

    But wait, the photo says "Gap Cottage" on it, which is marked on the 6", but in a different spot near this streetview.

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 23/Nov/2016 10:16:39

    Confusing isn't it ! There must have been several Mrs Moriartys, as evidenced by this exchange from the same article as above (the tourists are looking for a guide) -

    ... 'Are you a Moriarty ? We are looking for a boy of the Moriartys, and won't have any other.' 'I'm all the same as one. I'm a Foley, but sure my mother is a Moriarty.' 'I'm a Moriarty twice over, Miss; my father is one an' my mother is another— an' I'm the principal boy in the Gap.' ... ...

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 23/Nov/2016 10:34:35

    See also the name confusion here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/17343842345/

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    ✿ willem ツ

    • 23/Nov/2016 13:09:35

    Where I live a thatched roof is a status symbol. It is the most expensive type of roofing. Moreover, additional fire insurance is required. The situation used to be very different when this photo was taken, I suppose. The same is true for dry stone walling. I have never seen a modern house built with that technique. Too labour intensive and therefore too costly. Commonplace in the past.

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    dorameulman

    • 23/Nov/2016 13:20:07

    Wonderful capture of this moment and time!

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 23/Nov/2016 22:35:26

    Thanks all - especially [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] for the firm suggestion on location (and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] for the corroberation). Map updated accordingly :) On the prevelance Moriartys in them-thar-hills, I'd actually forgotten that we'd met some of the extended family on our previous journeys along these roads. Sher didn't one of them even give us a lift for part of the way...... www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/25581862336/

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    sincere rifle

    • 24/Nov/2016 06:11:31

    exellent Sans titre

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    marinela 2008

    • 24/Nov/2016 06:20:14

    Congrats on Explore !

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    le cabri

    • 24/Nov/2016 14:48:01

    Superb!

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    Bea Croes

    • 24/Nov/2016 17:23:19

    Great photo

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    Jared Enos

    • 16/Apr/2017 23:43:28

    Here's another one for you guys! www.flickr.com/photos/jenoscolor/33925405262/in/dateposte...

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 17/Apr/2017 18:04:08

    Fantastic https://www.flickr.com/photos/jenoscolor - thanks!