Kinnetty Village, Birr, Co. Offaly
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The Lawrence Collection and the work of Mr. French really is a joy to behold! Each day seems to offer a view of a new place, a new element of an Ireland long gone and a charming insight into a country before the advent of modernisation, social upheaval and war. This beautiful, charming Royal Plate image of Kinnetty (?) looks as though "peace comes dropping slow" there each day and rests until midnight.
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly c.1890-1900.
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09962
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly c.1890-1900.
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09962
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Offaly nice wee place! (Sorry 😝)
sharon.corbet
25" OSI
sharon.corbet
There is a Patrick Egan, Shopkeeper in both the 1901 and 1911 censuses.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/smoooooth-lll Offaly quick off the mark!
Foxglove
peace comes dropping slow and rests til midnight / a true poet ! and there is a dog to experience it too
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Sorry to wreck the slow dropping peace, but it was not always idyllic rural bliss in Kinnitty (articles refer to King's County - is that the same place?) - 1887 - "AN AWFUL {Offaly] STORY" - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138811996 1901 - "STRANGE CONFESSION AFTER 15 YEARS" - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174984668
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"The village derives its name from the myth that the head of an ancient princess is buried beneath the village, Ceann being Irish for head and Eitigh being the name of the princess." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnitty
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Yes, King's County is the former name for Co. Offaly. (Laois was Queen's County.) There was a plantation back in the mid-16th Century in Laois Offaly, and the counties and the county towns were named after Mary I and Philip II of Spain, her husband.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Thank you! That's offaly complicated ...
RETRO STU
Look at the gas-lamp stand, they are using a standard oil lamp, not a gas light. Presumably, the village did not have a public gas supply and so, they improvised.
oaktree_brian_1976
The giant tree is gone in Streetview. It looks smaller, looks like they cut it down and it grew back.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland He's off the Laois now!
Niall McAuley
The Post Office is visible as in the 6". It has moved by the 25" survey in 1910.
Niall McAuley
The NIAH is unaware that the modern parapet on Egans is not original, tut tut.
Niall McAuley
L_ROY_09961 is also Kinnity, and includes this corner house from 1890.
Niall McAuley
The 25" shows a Dispy where the post office is here, and the NIAH says that a dispensary was about to be erected in 1897. So I think this is after 1890 (corner house in adjacent pic) and before 1900.
stefanpettersson68
Hello How are you, very beatiful photo, and like your photostream very much, wishing a happy day and week Greetings from Stefan and sweden www.stefansphotos.se
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Thanks https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley! Date range tweaked...