All’s well in Sunday’s Well
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A very rare visit to the Fergus O’Connor collection today, and to a very neat, clean, and quite striking St. Vincent’s Church in Sunday’s Well in Cork. The church looks to be attached to a religious establishment, yet is open to the general public and the people attending have dressed up for the occasion. Sunday’s Well has always intrigued me! Is there a Well for Monday, Tuesday, etc.?
Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: Not dated
NLI Ref: OCO 317
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Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: Not dated
NLI Ref: OCO 317
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Streetview - goo.gl/maps/k5NqpUx1VNafMJs39 🎶They paved paradise And put up a parking lot ... 🎶
Foxglove
woman on right of pair, left side of street - is a classic case of perspective "tree out of head" or is she sporting a oartularly bushy hat. Flickr search of Sundays Well finds one Murphy who has systematically photoed the road !
Bernard Healy
A story from the time of the church’s closure with details of its building. www.catholicireland.net/historic-cork-church-may-close-du...
suckindeesel
I first thought that poor old St. Vincent was moved to accommodate the car park (€79/month), but he doesn't appear on the 25" (surveyed 1899), only on earlier maps. Do I hear a bell toll, judging from its position in the bell tower? Looks like it was a Sunday in Sunday's Well as everybody is dressed up.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Oooo ... Mr French / Lawrence photographed from this angle too. Bur a little higher, so the church posters are legible. Which year(s) did Sunday 19 September happen? ... catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321671 Aside - this does not seem to be the inside of St Vincent's - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339768 But where?
O Mac
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/] I believe that mistitled photo is of St Finbarrs Cathedral Cork. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000340280/MooviewerImg?mobile...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia The Devotion of the Quarant Ore - '40 hours devotion' to you heathens! Also a cathedral procession on Sun 12th Now we can't even get a priest to say mass. Can make out Rev P O'Leary CC Rev R McCarthy CC Dr. Sheehan? Keane PP? Bishop's Palace
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Re catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321671 Sunday fell on 19th Sept in 1896
O Mac
suckindeesel 1897 (UK)
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 Yes, you're correct 1897. Could the Lawrence possibly be later than the O'Connor? as it has a street light and the two plants in pots in front of statue appear more developed. Also the street surface looks better.
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04/ I would have thought O Connor was there far later than WL. 1910+. There's a lot of telephone wires on that pole + OCO 316 has a motoring car in.....tho no guarantee photos are sequenced
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 Yes, I'm sure you're correct, just was unfamiliar with what time period he was in. The only thing I found that was dateable is the absence of the statue in the 25". It's not that's it's too insignificant to include as it is shown on the 6".
suckindeesel
Not so well anymore, church up for sale 2018 www.corkindependent.com/homes/topics/articles/2018/05/30/...
suckindeesel
Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh, as Gaelige, Sunday King's Well. Or more likely: Well of the King of Sunday, referring to Jesus Christ. So, no, there aren't ones for weekdays.
oaktree_brian_1976
Horse and buggy and the woman's hat on the left suggest late 19th or early 20th Century.
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04/ I read Keane OP. There was a popular preacher, a Dominican, Dr Keane OP who seems to have been active in the late 19th & early 20th century.
suckindeesel
The site for the church was donated by Mary McSwiney, sister of the famous Terence McSwiney. The building on right was the Retreat House, now occupied by UCC's Music Dept. I think the two ladies on right are standing in front of the local RIC barracks.
Bernard Healy
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] Okay - in terms of dating the pic with the poster: Rev Dr Keane OP - That's most likely Antoninus Keane OP, a Dominican. He got his doctorate from the Catholic University in Dublin in 1874. He seems to have been very much in demand as a preacher. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT19210428.2.77 Rev Dr Sheehan was a Cork priest who became Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. IF we assume that his being called "Rev Dr" means that he was bishop when the poster was put up, then we narrow the date range to 1892-1915 www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsheer.html To get certainty on the date, it'd be worthwhile looking at the Catholic Directory for those years in that range when the Sunday falls correctly and checking "P O'Leary" and "R McCarthy". Where were they based & were they curates? (I'm afraid I don't have access to those directories for the next few months. :( )
abandoned railways
This is really Sundays Well road, Sundays Well is a 1.25 km down the road. Yes, there is a well. Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh.
Dr. Ilia
Cool shot
Bernard Healy
www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04/ www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/ Okay - I've had a look at some old Irish Catholic directories and I've identified Frs Patrick O'Leary & Richard McCarthy as being priests of the Diocese of Cork. In the 1902 directory, Richard McCarthy is no longer a CC, he's ADM of the Cathedral, so I'm confident that the poster dates from 1901 or earlier. So that confirms that we're in 1897, as Sept 19th fell on a Sunday that year.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy Excellent, well done and thank you.