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View of Bagenalstown Station
View of the station house and platform at Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) Railway Station, Co. Carlow.
Image courtesy of Carlow County Library, 2005.
View of Bagenalstown Station -
Plaque to William Dargan
The plaque to William Dargan at Carlow Railway Station. This plaque commemorates the engineer and builder of Irish railways, William Dargan. It was erected by the Old Carlow Society, which is now the Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society.
Image courtesy of Carlow County Library, 2005.
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Plaque to William Dargan -
Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) Railway Station, 1901
Bagenalstown is Eliza's destination. She wants to get off here to visit her cousin Katie, who lives in there. Bagenalstown Station is not as big as Carlow Station.
Image courtesy of Carlow County Library, 2005.
Image is present on following page(s): Eliza's Story, Eliza Reaches Her Destination
Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) Railway Station, 1901 -
John's Bridge
John's Bridge, Kilkenny
Property of Dr. Brendan Grimes
Image is present on following page(s): John's Quay and its environs
John's Bridge -
Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) Railway Station
View of the station house and platform at Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) Railway Station, County Carlow.
Image courtesy of Carlow County Library 2005.
Bagenalstown (Muinebheag) Railway Station -
Steam Train
Steam Train. Photo by Rex Murphy 1924.
Photo by Rex Murphy 1924, printed in The Railways of Ireland 1975.
Image is present on following page(s): Eliza's Story, Eliza's Train Journey 1901
Steam Train -
Train at Carlow Railway Station
Black and orange are the existing colours for Irish Rail. However, various shades of green are now used in the newly introduced rolling stock and on the Arrow Routes to Kildare.
© Carlow County Library.
Image is present on following page(s): Transport Links in Carlow
Train at Carlow Railway Station -
Planes Refuelling at Shannon Airport, 1950s
The first commercial flights left Shannon in 1945. This photograph was taken in the 1950s.
Photograph by Bill Bluett.Courtesy Clare County Library
Image is present on following page(s): Industry and Agriculture
Planes Refuelling at Shannon Airport, 1950s -
Working on the Sugar Beet Train
Irish men working on a sugar beet train.
By permission of Dungarvan Museum.
Image is present on following page(s): Sugar Growing Expands
Working on the Sugar Beet Train -
Lighthouse, Scattery Island
The present lighthouse on Scattery Island opened in 1872. It replaced a simple iron framework which held a light and was destroyed in a storm just six months after construction.
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Lighthouse, Scattery Island -
Ballyshannon Bridge: old and new
Black and white photograph of old and new Ballyshannon Bridge side by side . The photograph taken in 1946 shows the construction of the new bridge alongside the old one.
Donegal Democrat Publishers
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Ballyshannon Bridge: old and new -
The New Post Office
Approximately thirty years after the separate post office was established in Ireland from the Royal mail, the General Post Office or the New Post Office was built in 1814. The post office was originally situated on the north side of Dame Street. However, it has changed location due to a lack of space onto College Greene, and then on again to the west side of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). The building itself was designed by the famous architect, Francis Johnston. It is mainly made of granite, and is 233 feet wide, 150 feet in depth, and fifty feet high to the top of the cornice. The building was designed in an ionic classical style with its columns and Portland stone portico. The three statues in the pediment were sculpted by Edward Smith a famous sculptor of the time who also worked on the Custom House. The statues represent Hibernia, Mercury and Fidelity. The image is taken from the book the History of Dublin, by Warburton, Whitelaw & walsh, 1818.
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The New Post Office -
Cork Harbour 1840
Cork Harbour has been a place of trade and travelling for centuries. It is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, with its unusual Great Island situated in the midst of the harbour. The harbour has seen many ships come and go including the Viking tall ships, the royal navies, cruise liners including the Titanic and the Lusitania, and many more. Cork harbour became widely known as a place of refuge and refuelling in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth centuries, and early nineteenth centuries. It was also from Cork Harbour that emigrants left for a new life in America aboard the 'coffin ships' and convicts were transported to their life of exile in Australia, in the mid nineteenth century. Cork Harbour has been an important port of the Royal Navy before Ireland's independence, making Cork a great stronghold for the British Government in Ireland. Trade with other European cities was very popular in Cork Harbour especially trade with France, and butter became a huge export from Ireland across Europe from this town.
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Cork Harbour 1840 -
Loading wharf on the River Liffey
The docks of the river Liffey were developed when it emerged that there was a need for better navigation and harbour for boats carrying goods to and from Dublin along the Liffey. Before the 1720s there was little in the way of facilities for loading on the banks of the river, however this soon changed with the developments on the banks in the 18th century. This photo was taken outside the Guinness brewery at Victoria Quay, and was probably taken in the early 20th century. It shows the loading of casks of Guinness onto the steam barges at the loading wharfs outside of the Guinness brewery. These goods would have been transported down the river to the awaiting Channel steamers and other vessels at the North Wall where they would continue their journey to England and abroad for export.
Image is present on following page(s): Taking to the Water
Loading wharf on the River Liffey -
Canal and Flyboat at Longford
In 1755 two canal routes were proposed to join the Shannon with Dublin. While the Grand Canal was approved for construction, a more northerly route was dismissed. However, later in the 1780s a northerly route similar to that which was previously dismissed was now permitted for construction. The exact route of the canal was not planned, which caused some problems during its construction along with the hindrance of the Grand Canal Company's objection to the northern canal joining the River Shannon via Lough Ree. The canal was finally finished in 1817 reaching the river Shannon at Clondra, Co. Longford. Despite its delay, the quality of work done on the Royal Canal was very high. A total of forty-seven locks (including the sea lock), and four major aqueducts were built to carry the canal over the rivers Ryewater, Boyne and Inny. In total, eighty-six bridges were constructed. Traffic of goods on the Royal Canal was never as good as it was on the Grand Canal and the anticipated trade from Lough Allen did not materialise. However, the passenger service was increased as hotels were built along the route and the speed of the journeys were greatly reduced when lighter "fly" boats were introduced in 1833. This illustration shows a section of the Royal Canal, with a flyboat passing under a bridge. They were hauled along by horses that ran alongside the banks of the canal at a speed of about seven miles per hour.
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Canal and Flyboat at Longford -
Transport
Horses, coaches, sedan chairs, boats, trains, buses, trams , read Ireland's rich & colourful history of transport and infrastructure by Bernard Share.
By kind permission from Dublin City Council
Transport -
Maretimo (Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Library)
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
Maretimo (Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Library) -
Percy French (1854-1920)
Black and white photograph of songwriter, poet and artist Percy French
Dulra, Baile Ui Chonaill, an Falcarrach
Image is present on following page(s): To the Derry Boat - The Bridge of Tears
Percy French (1854-1920) -
Cork tram
A photograph from the Lawrence collection of a tram in Cork City.
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Cork tram -
Baldonnel Aerodrome before 1928
Aerial photograph of Baldonnel before 1928, the year the Bremen took off on its trans-atlantic flight.
By kind permission of the Photographic Section of the Irish Air Corps, Baldonnel
Image is present on following page(s): Éire san Aer
Baldonnel Aerodrome before 1928 -
River Suir of Waterford, watercolour by Joseph Poole Addey.
River Suir of Waterford, watercolour by Joseph Poole Addey c.1895. Poole Addey is a Northern Irish painter and teacher at the school of Art in Derry.
© Waterford City Council
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Modern map of County Donegal
Colour map of County Donegal indicating major and secondary roads system.
www.local.ie
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Modern map of County Donegal -
Ballyshannon Bridge
Acrylics painting of Ballyshannon Bridge by Brian Gallagher. Image taken from the book “Donegal, South of the Gap.” The view from below the bridge shows the town climbing the hill. The bridge spans the River Erne, linking Connacht to Ulster. The memorial tablet seen on the centre of the bridge was erected in 1895 in honour of local poet William Allingham (1828-1889). The text on the plaque, written by the author reads:“Here once he roved a happy boyAlong the winding banks of ErneAnd now, please God, with finer joyA fairer land his eyes discern.”
Copyright Cottage Publications, Donaghadee, Co Down, N I
Image is present on following page(s): The Bridges of Donegal County
Ballyshannon Bridge -
Colm Creedon, 1985
This photograph captures Colm Creedon, standing on the platform at Youghal, beside a G.S. Society carriage on the Irish Railway Records Society special in 1985. Visible through the window of the carriage is a Roches Stores bag.
Courtesy of Cork County Library
Image is present on following page(s): The Cork and Youghal Railway
Colm Creedon, 1985 -
First landing, Belmullet airstrip
Photograph taken by Liam Lyons on occasion of first landing of a small plane at Belmullet airstrip, 1978.
www.liamlyons.com
Image is present on following page(s): Transport Infrastructure in Mayo
First landing, Belmullet airstrip -
1801 map of North-East Donegal
1801 hand drawn ( ink on paper) map of north-east Donegal by map-maker William McCrea. The map is made up of equal sized rectangles individually imposed on a linen backing. This is one of a set of four maps in a boxed set entitled “Map of the County of Donegal.” The placename spellings are very much in the mode of the C17 and C18, and the maps illustrate in detail the mountains rivers and roads.
Donegal County Library
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1801 map of North-East Donegal -
Eske Bridge, County Donegal
Two sepia coloured images of Eske Bridge, Co Donegal. The views show the concrete arches spanning the River Eske. This bridge is part of the Donegal town bypass on the way to Killybegs.
Irish Concrete Society
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Eske Bridge, County Donegal -
Eske Bridge presentation
Colour photo of Donegal County Manager Michael McLoone with Donegal county politicians and dignitaries receiving an award from the Irish Concrete Society. The award was for the best reinforced concrete bridge design 1999, and was given to Donegal County Council's design team and the bridge's contractors, Deane Construction, Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh.
Donegal County Council Roads Design team
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Eske Bridge presentation -
Dunleary Old Harbour (Kingstown)
A pencil-drawing sketch of the Old Harbour with sailing ships moored, from the newly constructed West Pier. Drawing by an artist who made engravings of the new Dublin & Kingstown Railway in the 1830s. The view shows the harbour before the 1836-37 extension of the rail-line on a causeway to the present Dun Laoghaire Station, cutting the old harbour basin in half. The quay was used chiefly for unloading coal, which came in from Whitehaven and other places in Britain.
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
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Sepia flyover on Donegal Town bypass
Sepia-toned photograph of one of the newly-constructed flyover bridges on the Donegal Town Bypass.
Donegal County Council
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Sepia flyover on Donegal Town bypass -
logo of Tralee & Dingle Railway Company
copy of official logo of Tralee & Dingle Railway Company
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logo of Tralee & Dingle Railway Company -
Dublin Laundry van
Dublin Laundry van. This electric vehicle dates from 1947 and was use by the Dublin Laundry Company in Dartry until 1981.
By kind permission of Michael Corcoran
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Dublin Laundry van