The Rocks at the top of the hill.
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When: 10 May 1881
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A gentleman in Tweed jacket and breeches admires a Dolmen or Cromlech at the top of a very stony hill. This image from the Clonbrock Collection has a date, but no location. Somehow rural scenes in those days seemed more rugged with rocks more exposed, and I suspect that this scene is more overgrown today?
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock Photographic Collection
Date: Tuesday, 10 May 1881
NLI Ref: CLON359
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Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock Photographic Collection
Date: Tuesday, 10 May 1881
NLI Ref: CLON359
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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BeachcomberAustralia
10 May 1881 was a Tuesday . . .
derangedlemur
Possibly the same pile of rocks: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000521691 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000521766
derangedlemur
Also catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000521760
suckindeesel
Similar to this one? www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-dolmen-in-roscommon-ireland-g...
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] That would appear to be it, but they're not saying where it is.
BeachcomberAustralia
Skregg Passage Tomb (t'other side)?? via https://www.flickr.com/photos/backpackphotography/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/backpackphotography/23926988967/
suckindeesel
GoogleEarth Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/hRf1wA #googleearth
derangedlemur
goo.gl/maps/Nj2SDsQTMMo335QD7
O Mac
Mote Park, home of the Croftons, isn't too far away.
BeachcomberAustralia
Yes, definitely the other side, away from the road and streetview -
From - www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2454/skregg.html#images
Niall McAuley
Labelled Cloghogle Stone on the 25" and 6".
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/backpackphotography/24918555648/in/photolist-DXY5ko-Csm63t-Csm72T-Csm7Cn-Csm5dx-224cb7y-DXY4H1-224cbWj-Hama6n-DXY6o5-DXY7rN-dZrAk5 Almost the same view, but in reverse, again via Bradley Davis
BeachcomberAustralia
Surprisingly little about this place on the interweb. Perhaps it has yet another name? Augusta Dillon was clever with angles and perspectives with this series of photos. She makes the hill look prominent and solitary, whereas streetview shows it as a pimple in relation to the surrounds. There was another lady present, seen looking very 1881 here - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000521760
suckindeesel
25" geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9... Cloghogle from Cloch Thógála, meaning ‘stone tomb’ or 'lifted stone' I.e cromlech
suckindeesel
Scregg: Passage-tomb M 929 552 Sheet 40 "4 km W of Lecarrow, on a rocky knoll to the E of a by-road, is" The Cloghogle Stone" (cloch togálach = raised stone) -a small picturesque chamber 1.2 metres high inside, composed of single slabs, is partly closed at the entrance by a stone 70 cms high. The cairn has mostly disappeared." www.irishmegaliths.org.uk/roscommon.htm