Modest oaks from little acorns grow
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Where: Munster, Co Kerry, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1900
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Presenting The Queens Oaks in Killarney, Co. Kerry. As there is no apostrophe in the title on this Lawrence Imperial-sized glass plate, we don't know if these were the oaks of one specific queen, or many queens.
Can we find out? Or whereabouts in Muckross were these trees? And are they still standing?
p.s. This is Replacement Morning Mary standing in for Regular Morning Mary, who is on her very well-deserved holliers. She's gone out foreign though. Notions!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3320
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Can we find out? Or whereabouts in Muckross were these trees? And are they still standing?
p.s. This is Replacement Morning Mary standing in for Regular Morning Mary, who is on her very well-deserved holliers. She's gone out foreign though. Notions!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3320
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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Niall McAuley
from the Irish Times, Dec 2000 Oak can live for over 500 years and one of the biggest in Killarney is the Royal Oak on the shore of the lower lake. It was already a fine specimen when Queen Victoria was brought to see it and had a picnic there in 1861. During that royal visit there was a ceremony of planting of five or six trees now called the Queen's Oaks. Three of these can still be seen about 300 yards north of Muckross House.
Niall McAuley
Somewhere in this aerial view. [Edit: link fixed I hope, thanks to the beachcomber] May be marked on the 25", if anyone still has access to it.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] bad link! 300 yards north of Muckross House is somewhere near here, oak-spotters! - Garden Gnome view - goo.gl/maps/o6TnYCrTTwbnf6bY9 This must be the old oak (+ Hugo) where the Queen had a picnic, in 2011 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjerk/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjerk/12941555565/]
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Via Trove from 1899, a short article talking about various trees the Royals have planted, including - ...The Queen seems especially successful as a tree-planter, for the oak she planted at Muckross, on the banks of Lake Killarney, has far outgrown others that were planted at the same time. The "jarvey" always pointed it out to his "fares" as "The Queen's Oak." ... From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14261879?searchTerm=oa...
DannyM8
I thought that Morning Mary was on holidays just a few weeks back? Ye are getting soft in there! PS - Not a Dog to be seen.
John Spooner
Cork Constitution - Tuesday 3 September 1861And in the same paper less than a year later (Tuesday 22 April 1862), Prince Albert having died in December 1861
m counihan
The Queen’s oaks in Muckross. Walk from the front door of the house to the end of the formal drive (a couple of hundred meters). Just as the road bends for Dinis the trees are situated there in a green area.
m counihan
The photo above, while a very impressive tree, is not one of them. The tree in the photograph is behind Muckross house.
Niall McAuley
Can confirm that the 25" map from 1900ish says Queen's Trees at this spot.