Tubbernasplink? Now there's a name for ya!!!

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Where: Ulster, Cavan, Ireland

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When: Unknown

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Were this image in full living colour it would be 50 shades of green with a sprinkling of grey and perhaps blue from the bridge and the water. Given the fuzziness of the herbiage I suspect that the photographer was blessed with a breeze to keep him cool while setting up and taking the shot. But Tubbernasplink? Cavan is a county with a rich variety of names for townlands and places and this is one of the more curious ones.

Photographer: Robert French

Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection

Date: Circa 1865 - 1914

NLI Ref: L_IMP_4286

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 09:03:57

    There is a Royal Plate version with less blur - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000319443 - which was used in this online book, 'Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful' Ed. Walter Hutchinson, 1920. See page 361 - archive.org/details/hutchinsonsbrita01hutc/page/360/mode/2up Which doesn't help with the date.

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 09:23:01

    Not 100% sure this is the same bridge. Looking 50 shades of green in June 2015 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/eddieelm/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/eddieelm/24505720105/

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 09:50:23

    I see it on the unlinkable 25" map, which is here on Google Maps, in what is now Dún a Rí Forest park. Yes, there it is on the 6" too.

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:01:32

    The NIAH was a reference to a Well at this spot, but the associated info is not online. No date for the bridge. Class: Well Townland: CABRA Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes Description: The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email [email protected].

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:04:15

    No streetview of the bridge, but here is a photosphere nearby showing steps and a sign for Wishing Well

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:05:37

    A pic of the actual well, seems to be sourced from Facebook originally.

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:06:29

    Now known as Rabbit Bridge ? how boring! Via https://www.flickr.com/photos/celtboy1888/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/celtboy1888/15806620202/ Via https://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/ in 2018 https://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/41601170460/

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:08:19

    The old Irish name was Tobar na Splinne, the well of the cliff according to www.dunari.ie/places-of-interest.html

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:14:04

    Hmmm, the blurb about nearby Cromwell's Bridge, said to overlook the well, does not match this bridge in today's image. Strike that/reverse it. Today's image is Cromwell's Bridge overlooking the well, it is not the flatter bridge in Ed Maguires shot linked above. A tripadvisor image here

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    suckindeesel

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:15:09

    Or Sarah’s Bridge (1801)? youtu.be/YsdtWSze5Jc at 2:40

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:18:35

    Folklore - www.dunari.ie/folklore.html

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:24:12

    Sarah Bridge 1801 has a high-ish stone parapet - via https://www.flickr.com/photos/thatpatguy/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/thatpatguy/4006847481/

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    Paddywhack56

    • 10/Feb/2023 10:35:26

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Correct. The well is close to Sarah's Bridge which is a shortish distance upstream from Rabbit Bridge.

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 11:00:24

    I am still confused. The Lawrence photos appear to show a considerable 10m-or-so drop beneath the arch, not evident on any of the Flickr photos I have linked of Rabbit Bridge with the wooden rails. Maybe the Lawrence bridge is no longer there ?

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 11:16:12

    Look who was nearby! The old rustic bridge

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 11:20:02

    From Herr Mulligan's other shot: The right path I think we can see that the flatter bridge is a tiny footbridge, aka the Rabbit Bridge upthread.

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 11:25:20

    Well close-up: Make a wish - Wishing well- FLR-DSC_0158

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    Niall McAuley

    • 10/Feb/2023 11:26:48

    So today's shot is a reverse view of this one: Dun a Ri Forrest

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 10/Feb/2023 11:50:56

    Phew! I am happy with Cromwell (not often you hear that!). Apologies for the wild goose chases, red herrings, and stone rabbits above.

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    silverio10

    • 11/Feb/2023 21:17:02

    Buenas fotos antiguas .

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    @ttomab

    • 12/Feb/2023 04:10:54

    Nice Capture! Congratulations On Explore!

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    • 12/Feb/2023 04:15:21

    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ February 11, 2023

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    • 12/Feb/2023 04:28:58

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    • 12/Feb/2023 06:05:17

    Glückwunsch zu Explore !

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    • 12/Feb/2023 06:20:27

    Absolutely fantastic ⭐

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    • 12/Feb/2023 07:11:01

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    • 12/Feb/2023 07:30:01

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    • 12/Feb/2023 08:42:22

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    • 12/Feb/2023 11:29:59

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    John Spooner

    • 12/Feb/2023 11:52:39

    An account of a visit published in the Northern Standard on Saturday 25 November 1871

    We felt a strong inclination to break of here and hide, for an hour or two, from the hot July sun in Cabra wood; but time would not permit. We had been in it before, and had a grateful recollection of its beauties—its glen, with its musical rivulet finding its way among boulders and over ledges of rock, forming miniature waterfalls, quite refreshing to look at. But above all, we remembered the pure spring water oozing out of the face the rock, for we had come upon it travel-stained and thirsty; and throwing ourselves down by the of the far famed "Tubber-na-Splink,” treated ourselves to a copious draught of the real pure, fresh from the filters of nature, and on which the sun had net been permitted to look for ages.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 12/Feb/2023 17:26:16

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner good find