Down the old bog road
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Yesterday we had a couple bringing home the turf and today we have people living on the bog with a straight road leading off to the distant hills. The cataloguer seems to have been under the impression that the people were leaning on a rick of turf but it looks more like their home to me! Do you agree and where is it?
Whether temporary or otherwise, the general consensus is that this is a picture dwelling. And O Mac has expertly pinpointed it to the road between Letterfrack and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_1413
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Whether temporary or otherwise, the general consensus is that this is a picture dwelling. And O Mac has expertly pinpointed it to the road between Letterfrack and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara....
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_1413
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Niall McAuley
Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...
John A. Coffey
Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.
robinparkes
It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.
Niall McAuley
They might not live in it year round, they might just come up to the bog to cut turf.
KenjiB_48
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Sod houses were not uncommon among early settlers in the western part of the USA, not limited to Irish families. They were usually temporary quarters until funds and materials were available for building more conventional dwellings.
jamica1
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Also in Canada www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sod-houses
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www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley/ They might not live in it year round, they might just come up to the bog to cut turf. You can tell by their latest fashionable attire, they live in a castle, when they are not vacationing here.
O Mac
Little did they know that that's the N59... heading into Letterfrack. The photographer took the photo to the right of where the Google car was when taking this Streetview. www.google.com/maps/@53.5584758,-9.9327176,3a,44.4y,57.34...
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Well done
Niall McAuley
These one-room botháns were common before the Famine, but much less common 15-35 years later, the timeframe for this picture. One use for them was migrant workers who moved where they could find work and built them there - harvesting at one time of year, turf another.
Niall McAuley
You can see the cottage built at an angle to the road on the right on the GeoHive 25" around 1900, and by then a Basket Weaving business is on this corner.
philfluther
Maybe bog-oak. Isn't a divining rod? 'Beggars can't be choosers' proverb.
Brendan C.H.
Appears to be the same boy in both photos: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564726