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From the reluctant Khan in far off Persia, to the cans of milk at Kilmacow Creamery for today's image from the Poole Collection. A lovely scene that many who grew up in rural areas will have been familiar with in the early mornings. This scene had not changed much by the mid to late 1960s.
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford
Date: ca. Sunday, 18 May 1924
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3169
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Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford
Date: ca. Sunday, 18 May 1924
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3169
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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O Mac
Street view maps.app.goo.gl/NBB3rENGBAv4DegbA Niah www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12329...
O Mac
18th May 1924 was a Sunday. Did creameries work on Sundays? I doubt it.
colm.walsh
My Great Grandfather Richard Walsh the Manager far left of the stage
Foxglove
kill ma cow - dangerous place if you are a member of the dairy gang: if you think that is weak what about ... Khan to Can as a link. seriously though, this is a great rural scene with so much to visually dissect
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ They were "Cans" in some places and "churns" in udder places.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Hi Colm, please do tell us more about your Great Grandfather. Mary
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove We do still have the pun "SIN BIN", just saying! Mary
BeachcomberAustralia
I wonder if Mr Poole said "SAY CHEESE!".
Foxglove
peccavi ....
Foxglove
my favourite pun
colm.walsh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland He was born in Ballygorey, Mooncoin in 1870, He attended the small college next to the church in Kilmacow for a while, possibly beeing lined up for the priesthood.He emigrated to Boston around 1897 and was only there a while when word came back of a job for an educated man as manager of the local creamery. He held that position from 1898 to 1945 Dick passed away in 1950.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] 47 years at the same job, hard to match!
Foxglove
the photo has captured a large number of the local (male) population, because of the photos age and the young age of the younger men, others could be identified via family/ friends of Colm ??
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove I have tagged Peccavi. I was thinking that the men in this photo have a Latin common!
colm.walsh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove We have checked this photo before and bar the dairymaid and foreman it is hard to pinpoint exactly who the rest are. I tried looking for his milk invoices for that week as It could list the same people but I had no joy finding it.
O Mac
€200,000 will buy it today.. touch.daft.ie/for-sale/site-dangan-kilmacow-co-kilkenny/2...
Niall McAuley
Richard Walsh, Creamery Manager in the census of 1901 and (married) in 1911
Niall McAuley
I think this must be him marrying Elizabeth Connolly in 1906, although it lists him as a farmer. Birth record here.
colm.walsh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Married in 1904 in St Mary's Church Kilkenny City. I think he was pals with a priest in St Kiearns college who preformed the task. Elizabeth was from Cappagh in Kilmacow and we think they met in night school learning Irish.
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Yes, that record is for Mary's in the city. Priest was a John Doody, about the same age as Richard, recorded in 1901 as a Professor of Classics at Kieran's. In 1911, he is Priest and President of College. Wikipedia says he was President from 1903-11, so at the time of the wedding.
Niall McAuley
Here is Eliza in 1901 at home in Cappagh.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I suppose that cows don't take Sunday off, so maybe it was a 7-day operation before the days of local refrigeration.
O Mac
suckindeesel I agree. Too many white shirts for a weekday.... and taken before mass.
rpgvlwqt88
The Church of Ireland have just released some slides of Ireland and are looking to find the locations and individuals and any more detail. I suggested they look here but if anyone wants to review - see here - www.flickr.com/photos/churchofireland/albums/721576646014...
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Dodgy link,?
suckindeesel
I wonder what that weighing scales was for?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Thanks a million for the information, Colm. We love to identify people, and information from a relative is cat nip to us. I put a note on the photo indicating which one is your great-grandfather. Would you please mind checking that I've put a note on the right man?
rpgvlwqt88
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] www.flickr.com/photos/churchofireland/24461491454/in/albu...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Certainly a swarthy looking lot, but they were all men of the soil. They don't call it the sunny south-east for nothing.
colm.walsh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Yes that's Dick. Dairymaid Helena Timmony (Fermanagh) to her right is Patrick Walsh (Upper Street Kilmacow)
Dr. Ilia
superb capture
Niall McAuley
Helena Timmoney was 6 in 1911, 19 here.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Spoke with my father this mormng(17-9-20) He lived near a creamery in Co Clare and my Uncle Frank worked there (Early to mid 1940s) as a clerk and my Grandfather would have brought milk to it. Milk and cream was collected from the creamery (every day in summertime and every second day in wintertime) and brought to a bigger creamery in Ennistymon. No lorry collection on Christmas Day but milk was collected on St Stephens Day. They did not have refrigeration at Ballynacaragh Creamery hence the collection.. It is between Corrofin and Kilfenora. They could separate the milk there. The system worked that you unloaded your churns of whole milk and when emptied and recorded you could get skimmed milk back to feed pigs. People who did not want the skimmed milk could sell it to people who did. My Dad seems to think it cost 1d a gallon for the skim milk.
colm.walsh
Creamery 1939 live.staticflickr.com/65535/50352779747_dd8e09748c_m.jpg Richard Walsh Memory live.staticflickr.com/65535/50352638326_f3b3e68a9d_m.jpg
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Really obliged to you, Colm! Great to put even more names to faces. Helen was very far from her Fermanagh home...
JohnFinn
"Cans" of milk? They are churns! I remember them being used up to the 1960s.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnfinn I remember having to wash them !