The Grand Stand Hotel, Curragh Camp
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The deep treasure chest that is the Lawrence Collection is the gift that keeps on giving. Today we are treated to a lovely cabinet sized plate of the Grand Stand Hotel at the Curragh Racecourse in County Kildare. The whole racing industry has changed radically since this shot was taken by Mr. French, but then the whole world has changed...
... And this area has changed. To the extent that I've added this image to our "no longer standing" album. While BeachcomberAustralia highlights that at least some of the building on the left survives (under the Curragh grandstand), and the hotel on the right survived until the last decade (til the streetview car passed-by in 2009 ), we've since learned that the hotel is now entirely demolished. Leaving this view quite changed from French's time!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_CAB_02322
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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... And this area has changed. To the extent that I've added this image to our "no longer standing" album. While BeachcomberAustralia highlights that at least some of the building on the left survives (under the Curragh grandstand), and the hotel on the right survived until the last decade (til the streetview car passed-by in 2009 ), we've since learned that the hotel is now entirely demolished. Leaving this view quite changed from French's time!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_CAB_02322
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Good morning Mr Irwin from Newbridge !
O Mac
Streetview
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
From the satellite it looks like the hotel has been demolished recently ...
Niall McAuley
OSI 25"
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Yes, demolished in March 2011 - www.boards.ie/b/thread/2056212530
Niall McAuley
No Irwins in Newbridge in 1901 or 1911 census.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
What a great building the Grand Stand (left of frame, aka Standhouse) on the left was in Mr French's day - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338065 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000042823 Looks like it is still there under additions - www.google.ie/maps/@53.1684183,-6.8438953,3a,60y,146.84h,...
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
This came to mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXIVw5GO3zo www.irish-folk-songs.com/the-curragh-of-kildare-lyrics-an...
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks guys! Have updated the map, tags and album. WIll be interesting to see what (if anything) is built to replace the hotel.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
It seems the wonderful old Grand Stand on the left was recently demolished (March 2017) - www.kildarenow.com/uncategorized/video-curragh-racecourse... Oh dear! Red Herring - when trying to find out the history of The Curragh, I came across this 1866 Trove article - "Early English chroniclers asserted that Stonehenge was transferred from the plains of Kildare." and "... in the time of Giraldus Cambrensis there was still to be seen on the plain of Kildare an immense monument of stones corresponding exactly in appearance with that of Stonehenge." See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115453062
john waters
It was demolished to make way for a vast expansion and upgrade of the Curragh race course
Niall McAuley
Nearby geographically and in the catalogue, L_CAB_02326 shows St. Brigid's CoI Cathedral in Kildare, built from 1890-1896. The build is not finished here, no windows yet, but the stonework looks finished, I'd say we are close to 1896.
Niall McAuley
My 5-year-old comment about no Irwins in Newbridge was incorrect, here is James Irwin in 1901, building contractor, with his sisters Teresa and Ann. No sign of them in the 1911.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Thank you.