The Bay of the Squinting Window
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The Bay, Woodford, Co. Galway for today's image with a lady (a maid) looking out the bay window of the house on the far side of the water. The house is very close to the water and must have been vulnerable to winter/spring/summer/autumn floods? (I was going to say winter but they could happen at any time of the year in Ireland)
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09947
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_09947
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Foxglove
looks out the window thinking "bloody paparazzi....."
O Mac
Street view maps.app.goo.gl/6mUKL1qJA3to8XvD6
Rory_Sherlock
Still there: www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30342... Streetview: www.google.com/maps/@53.0502774,-8.4001258,3a,55.8y,245.8...
O Mac
This "bay" as it is still called today was a man-made mill pond for a mill that stood behind the camera above. It was demolished in the '60s.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Built c. 1900 per that NIAH link. The 25" is from 1893, and this house is not there.
Niall McAuley
L_ROY_09941 nearby in the catalogue and real life is nursing home, former convent, built c.1905 per the NIAH
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Flickr is sometimes amazing. In April 2021 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/51121013093/
Niall McAuley
I took a squint at the 1911 census, but I can't tell which house this is on the form. Good chance we could identify the woman in the window if we could.
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Realy great pic! ;-)
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I had a hopeful hunch that this might have been the rebuild of Dr Tully's house, but no: wrong. Another wild goose chase across The Bay ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6821695135
Foxglove
there is also man in the garden, if a mill working couple it could help with ID through census ?
Billy Quinn 1954
O Mac
"Keary" is current owner.
John Spooner
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] A young Brian Keary won 2/6 for a "joke" published on the 'Junior Standard' page of the Catholic Standard on Friday 16 May 1958
To be fair to young Brian, the "joke" sent in by Joseph Bishop of Walkinstown, Dublin, wasn't any better. IMHO.
John Spooner
I suspect the name "Woodford Bay" may have originated from a speech in parliament in August 1901, reported widely. This is from the Northern Whig on Saturday 10 August 1901
Other accounts mention uproarious laughter among the Irish members, which isn't bad going given the debate began at 3 a.m. I wonder if the citizens of Woodford commemorated their part in the parliamentary joke by ironically naming the millpond after the previously fictitious body of water.Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Interesting. L_ROY_09936, nearby in the catalogue as well as geographically, shows Keary's was a shop and post office on Main Street at the time. Those Keary's are in both the 1901 and 1911 census. Streetview shows that Keary's shop is still there (although not the Post Office). There is another family of Kearys in the 1911 census, Patrick, Elizabeth and children. Patrick is a physician and surgeon, There are two servants, Katie Thompson and John Duane. Their house is 1st Class with 6 windows to the front.
Niall McAuley
They were married in 1898, Patrick being from Woodford, father (also Patrick) a shopkeeper.
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ John Keary had the post office up to about ten years ago. It is still a hardware shop and petrol pump. Keary's was affectionately known as 'Dear Johns' because the petrol and diesel was more expensive there than anywhere else. The Kearys who lived in the above house were related and were the local doctors... I lived and worked from Woodford when restoring the Birr telescope in the mid 90's. It's a lovely place.
Niall McAuley
Birth records of the junior Kearys just give Woodford as the address.
Niall McAuley
The house was built after 1893 (from the OS 25" map). The NIAH thinks c.1900, but it is not precise. The roses are 10 feet up the walls here - it is up a good few years. I'd say we are closer to the 1911 census than the 1901.
John Spooner
The "Woodford Bay" parliamentary ploy was repeated in 1906 by a Mr Devlin. New Ross Standard - Friday 10 August 1906:
*Neville's dadJohn Spooner
As well as the 2/6 the Catholic Standard paid for his joke in 1958, Brian Keary of The Bay, Woodford pocketed a 5s prize in the Children's crossword competition in the same paper, announced in the Friday 21 May 1954 edition.
Niall McAuley
From the Irish Times, 2003: Dr Ray Keary, who died last Monday at the age of 65, was a leading geologist and author of the first "real map" of Ireland and its extensive seabed territory. ... Ray Keary was born in Woodford, Co Galway, on August 18th, 1937, and was reared near Lough Derg on the Tipperary border. Water "both onshore and offshore" was to be an abiding them of his life, as the journal Sherkin Comment noted last year. His father worked as a doctor for Inishbofin island off the Connemara coast, and Keary would have become very familiar with the western seaboard from an early age.