Blackwater River, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
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A fine stretch of river at Cappoquin with sidecar, driver and observer. I think that the beauty of the Blackwater is oftentimes overlooked. Perhaps as it is not as storied as rivers such as the Lee, the Liffey and the Shannon. But its tree lined banks and deep pools make it a place of peace and great beauty!
There's general agreement that the image was taken around here, and that the house in the background is Dromona House...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_01004
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There's general agreement that the image was taken around here, and that the house in the background is Dromona House...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_01004
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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derangedlemur
This'd be one possibility. There's mountains in the distant background, but the depth of field is so different it's hard to say if they're the right ones. www.google.ie/maps/@52.1034094,-7.8664118,3a,52.9y,361.69... OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,609130,594623,10,7
derangedlemur
The house on the hill looks like this one: www.waterfordmuseum.ie/exhibit/web/DisplayImage/K0L7HkqaX... Which matches the OSI, but not at all the NIAH: www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&... edit: "The house was built in the late 18th century and demolished in the 1960's. The building to the right of the photograph behind the house is still in existence." Which would explain it. Here it is in Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@52.1056581,-7.8690013,3a,64.6y,48.23h...
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A spectral figure materialises out of the wall.
Foxglove
it's an Irish centaur half man half horse ! a first
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The Lemur's 'house on the hill', Dromana, is described in this 1929 article via Trove - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/107343113 Including - "... there lived and died the celebrated 'old Countess of Desmond'. According to one account, this remarkable woman, at the age of 140, undertook the then difficult journey to London to demand fiom James I. the restoration of her jointure. Another account makes her not quite so old, for it says she — Lived to the age of one hundred and ten, And died from a fall from a cherry-tree then. " More - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_FitzGerald,_Countess_of_D...
sam2cents
It's a place of incredible beauty. And the composition is fantastic, but I would lay odds that the apparition standing by the gap in the wall will get most of the attention from this shot. Spooky!
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Reverse view from Dromana - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000323756 Grumpy man in the bowler hat also spotted on a very ornate bridge at Dromana - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339464 Similar view in the 1770s - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000546629
B-59
This photo was taken here IMO.
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I'd say you are right https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] - looks uncannily similar. Have updated the mapping location to match!
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Droneview!! - at the start - youtu.be/eAGtvC9yUc8
Ali Gardener
I see a ghost, too, here?
Frank Fullard
Terrific
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .