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Where: Ulster, Donegal, Ireland
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We just love the Stereo Pairs Collection and today's offering is an enormous manor house with rather strange but effective fortifications on two of the visible corners. As usual there is no location given for the STP images so it will be interesting to find where this is/was! Whoever owned it clearly felt under threat and one suspects that they had a nautical connection as those two mini round forts look rather like the "Figthting Tops" in use by the navy at that time?
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_2966
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Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_2966
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Rathmullan, Co Donegal catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000565020
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And the Streetview: www.google.com/maps/@55.0939857,-7.5365787,3a,75y,27.52h,...
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In 1902 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/] See - archive.org/details/onirishjauntingc00bayn/page/10/mode/2... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14595212127/] And in July 2022 (possibly earlier due to ivy not visible on streetview) via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/psellek/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/psellek/52311101621/]
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Rathmullan Friary, Carmelite
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“Class: Religious house - Carmelite friars Townland: RATHMULLAN AND BALLYBOE Scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP: Yes Description: Rathmullan Priory: Founded in 1516 for the Carmelite Order by Owen Roe MacSweeney and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the priory survived intact until 1595 when it was plundered by Bingham; the friars returned and repaired the place. In 1601, the buildings consisted of a church and steeple, cloister, hall and three chambers. Andrew Knox, Bishop of Raphoe, having obtained possession of the site, converted the nave and transept into a private dwelling, preserving the tower and chancel as his chapel (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 291). His initials and the date 1618 over the hall doorway indicate when these alterations took place. In 1706, the chancel was consecrated by Bishop Pooley as the parish church in place of that at Killygarvan, which had fallen into ruin (Batt 1889, 42). Services were discontinued there when a new parish church, St. Columb's, was built in 1814 (Leslie 1940, 94). The house probably fell into ruins in the later 18th century after the Knox family moved to Prehen near Derry…….” maps.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/?REG_NO=40819028
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The ruins are looking 'cleaner' than they have for centuries, with the removal of big trees and rampant creeper. See slightly closer streetview (August 2021) - goo.gl/maps/ZVH8xs7eSMWuMaQ46
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 From a little further down in that article: The moulding profiles of the door and secondary windows are typically Scottish in character, as are the two angle turrets on moulded corbels with circular pistol loops below the windows which were added to the N and S corners of the nave.
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Like this:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08 Well done young man. Mary
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Did you notice that there is a Beachcomber Bar just to the East of your streetview!
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Lovely day for a Guinness !! - goo.gl/maps/JptSB1YhRSSVZctr7
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Every day is a good day for a Guinness!!
suckindeesel
Niall McAuley Perhaps added in Napoleonic times?
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Love your pics!😍