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Where: Ulster, Donegal, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1880
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We had another Eason lined up for today, but it was yet another street, and somehow this Eblana image seemed more appropriate. The Poisoned Glen in the amazing upside down format, with a spectacular view of that valley, which is up to 150 years old (the format, not the valley)!
+++ UPDATE +++
See Chris Wright’s contribution below for how the Poisoned (not Poison! thanks Anne McGinley) Glen got its name in legend of old. The less exotic, but no less interesting reason is that “Locals were inspired to name it An Gleann Neamhe (The Heavenly Glen), but when an English cartographer mapped the area, he carelessly marked it An Gleann Neimhe – The Poisoned Glen”.
Photographers: Unknown
Collection: Eblana Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1870-1890
NLI Ref: EB_0375
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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+++ UPDATE +++
See Chris Wright’s contribution below for how the Poisoned (not Poison! thanks Anne McGinley) Glen got its name in legend of old. The less exotic, but no less interesting reason is that “Locals were inspired to name it An Gleann Neamhe (The Heavenly Glen), but when an English cartographer mapped the area, he carelessly marked it An Gleann Neimhe – The Poisoned Glen”.
Photographers: Unknown
Collection: Eblana Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1870-1890
NLI Ref: EB_0375
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Views: 10454
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BeachcomberAustralia
At last! A photo the right way up ... Here is the Lawrence original at the NLI, not yet digitized - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000328805
BeachcomberAustralia
And another Lawrence with a fellow sitting on the foreground rock. He looks a lot like our old friend Jaunty - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000335292 Ed. Maybe not Jaunty but the 'Lad' on the left in smarter clothes - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/31636807885/]
cargeofg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=STP95wRpAGw Drone view from May 2019. Two men on a side car in the foreground not the motorised type
BeachcomberAustralia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Magical! I wonder what Mr French would have thought of drones?
cargeofg
www.gaothdobhair.ie/en/tourist-attractions-gweedore/eagla... Copied this brief history over. Modern day RC church is at other end of lough.
Niall McAuley
CoI church is from 1853, now in ruins
cargeofg
www.flickr.com/photos/garethwrayphotography/32375525917/i... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] If we had Prof Brown and a DeLoren we could nip back and ask him and have a word about including a newspaper in his photo Would make this job so much easier. But that would spoil the fun.
Niall McAuley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ snap!
Niall McAuley
Boreenview NIAH no help today, Donegal sadly not well covered
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia That is what we love about you - you see the whole world from a different perspective;-)
Carol Maddock
Suitably macabre for this photo – from the Skibbereen Eagle, 30 May 1914
xpisto1
Poisoned Glen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search The Poisoned Glen range with an abandoned church in the foreground The Poisoned Glen (Irish: Cró Nimhe)1 is a glen located near Dunlewey in Gweedore, County Donegal. It is located beside Mount Errigal and extends beyond Glenveagh National Park, facing Loch Altan.2 The Poisoned Glen is situated approximately 40km from Letterkenny. Etymology According to legend, the huge ice-carved hollow of the Poisoned Glen got its name when the ancient one-eyed giant king of Tory, Balor, was killed here by his exiled grandson, Lughaidh, whereupon the poison from his eye split the rock and poisoned the glen. The less interesting truth, however, lies in a cartographic gaffe. Locals were inspired to name it An Gleann Neamhe (The Heavenly Glen), but when an English cartographer mapped the area, he carelessly marked it An Gleann Neimhe – The Poisoned Glen.3
Carol Maddock
And is it Poisoned Glen or Poison Glen? There're a load of references in recent newspapers to an annual cycle race called the Poison Glen Tour...
mcginley2012
It's known as The Poisoned Glen Carol but the Irish translation is Poison Glen. Amazing image indeed, I have never seen a picture of the church with a roof. Great field of spuds too!
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Excellent, thanks Anne!
Niall McAuley
There is a long sequence of 50+ Imperial plates of Donegal leading up to 1577, but none are digitized yet.
O Mac
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Just wondering why it is that the photo is catalogued as an Eblana/Eason with W.L. clearly marked. .. Also confusing is it seems to be doubled numbered 1377 W.L and 375W.L.? Awfully confusing and stressful.... ..If I get a breakdown while locked down i might be locked up. The last time we were in Dunlewey was in 1884 so being close in catalogue sequence ( L_ROY_01372) and Donegal so far from his studio on Sackville St. it could be that Robert French took the above at the same time. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/11113786414/in/photolist-...
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/xpisto1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Same thing happened here in Wales years ago so I am told. English OS surveyors had farms named as Beware of the Dog as that was the sign on the gate in Welsh. Is there a problem with comments this morning as text I had on photo above has disappeared twice.
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Oooh, maybe Flickr is having a bit of a moment!
Foxglove
i am sure i travelled through here in a "Ford Anglia" , taken on holiday ad a child. I remember the rain and surviving in a green Arran woolie. thanks for posting to upsidey-downsie
BeachcomberAustralia
Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2013 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/14910314105/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] We had another instance of catalogue number confusion a few weeks back (see comments) https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/49379466588/in/dateposted/
BeachcomberAustralia
Via Trove, this from 1876, a few years before ...
From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115299938/12713859cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Tried to tag you in on comment with French and drones (Prof Brown etc) but flickr is on a funny here today. Maybe the rain here in Wales has diffused the space time continuium.
catb -
And as it was in 1990 . . . www.flickr.com/photos/catb/2901550675/in/photolist-8nKU2x...
BeachcomberAustralia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Bad Panda !
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] These are some personal notes we made prior to posting the first Eblana photos. There may be errors (most probably are!) Regards Mary. It seems that Lawrence purchased the Eblana collection and as can be seen from this example it is numbered No1 W.L. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559697 Eblana glass negatives are numbered EB1 to EB2906. A small amount of items (EB 289, 2655-2662, 2664, 2665) have been catalogued, digitised and are available on the National Library of Ireland online catalogue. As well as Eblana there are Eblana Religious, Eblana Stereopairs and CDV Eblana Comic. Related Materials: See Lawrence Photograph Collection record, vtls 313414, for more information on the Lawrence Collection and firm. The Eblana Photograph Collection was acquired by the National Library with the Lawrence Collection, though it is treated as a distinct collection. The negatives were acquired, probably bought, by William Lawrence or his brother for printing and distribution and were not created by the Lawrence firm. The negatives include two identical images per plate. They are not however stereo pairs. Physical description: 226 boxes ; in preservation envelopes, in phase boxes. Physical description: 2833 glass negatives. Citations/References: "Into the Light: an Illustrated Guide to the Photographic Collections in the National Library of Ireland" by Sarah Rouse, p. 30 Finding Aids: Index available at NPA Reading Room Counter. It seems that there are many more items digitised than the note suggests. The point about the negatives including two identical images per plate is fascinating, there seems to be a few different types as follows (excuse my made up types); Vertical Pair catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559698 note WL 2 reference Single? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559700 note WL 4 reference Vertical Pair mirror Image catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559701 note WL 5 reference, great fun with the Megazoom feature with these Vertical Pair two references catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559730 note both WL 42 and WL 2895 references Vertical Pair two images? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559748 Note WL 60 and WL 61 references – one photo cancelled with large white X Horizontal pair catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000559732 note WL 44 reference – also catalogue description does not match photo description. Horizontal pair one inverted catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000561160 note WL reference 5281, this one is also in the catalogue as a normal Lawrence see catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000322254
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] When Morning Mary said We had another Eason lined up for today, but it was yet another street, and somehow this Eblana image seemed more appropriate. "The another Eason" referred to yesterdays Eason posting, Eason and Eblana are not related, (unless you know something!) The other Mary
John A. Coffey
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John A. Coffey
Lá báisti .........
O Mac
National Library of Ireland on The Commons ..I'll never ask a hard question ever again. Head rightly fried now.. Thanks for the explanations.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] We are a very Technical group here! :-) The Marys
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Morning Mary here and you've woken me up from my Cocooning with those hard questions! I just felt that two street photos in a row needed something different and that the Poison Glen, which I think is spectacular made a perfect contrast - as well as being stunningly beautiful!
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] But they got two for the price of one yesterday. Daywork and nightshift home work Man with dog in Rutland Square photo
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Hello All, you might find the following of interest. The Marys. Welcome to the latest edition of At Home with the National Library of Ireland, the series of weekly bulletins which take you on a tour of the Library’s online opportunities for learning, escapism, reflection and connection. This week, the focus is on the National Library’s Flickr photostream. This introduction and the selection of images below are brought to you by two of the community volunteers who now look after that stream. For more click on the link below. At Home with the National Library of Ireland Friday 24th April 2020
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Hubba Hubba! Who knew the Two Marys were so handsome?
B-59
View in 2019, by tim dodds: www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/48177549287/
Dr. Ilia
amazing capture
salah_souissi
le monde a l'envers !