The town with two counties or "Mixed Allegiances"!
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Where: Connaught, County Mayo, Ireland
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Charlestown, County Mayo or is it Charlestown, County Sligo? I've asked people so many times where they came from and when they said Charlestown I seemed to mention the wrong county! As it straddles the border of the two the Connacht championships must be great craic:-)
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Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1920-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_3962
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Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1920-1939
NLI Ref: EAS_3962
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derangedlemur
Streetview: goo.gl/maps/DYMZ7YNhGi66RpPg9
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
According to Google maps this is in Co. Mayo. Name that car, Z-859 !
O Mac
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] Looks like a 1927 Dodge--100 www.vintagecarcollector.com/vehicles/294/1927-dodge-100
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Good call, even if dodgey! "US$895" via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/25415440304/
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ That ‘Z’ Co. Dublin reg series began May 1927
derangedlemur
The people it's parked in front of are a bunch of blow-ins; No Veseys in Charlestown in 1911. It's a very Mayo name, though, according to the census.
Günter Hentschel
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Niall McAuley
Z 1 to Z 9999 (Mar 1927 – Sep 1938); so about a thousand a year - this car is from late 1927.
maigheo1
The turreted building in the centre was known as the sentry box but was in fact where the weighing scales for the weekly market took place. The town was commissioned by lord Dillon who was upset that his neighbouring landowner in Sligo (Knox) would charge higher fees for market sales etc to Dillons tenants. The town was named after Dillons agent Charles Strickland. The first house seen on the left of the sentry box was completed in competition with another house c1847 with a prize of free ground rent for life.
maigheo1
The car reg could most likely by IZ, the “I” being obscured by the bumper! IZ was the old Mayo car reg.
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/] Pretty close match flic.kr/p/2niMNnx
O Mac
I see the town had the electric street light in 1927. I think the poles and wires are also a pre ESB power supply maybe DC. They were doing well. From the ESB Archives. It was 1935 before the Shannon Scheme got to Charlestown. But.... "PP Condon, Achonry supplied electricity in Charlestown before 1927. He supplied 82 homes and businesses in 1929, rising to 98 in 1935, , when it was acquired by ESB." www.google.com/amp/s/esbarchives.ie/2017/09/18/connecting...
O Mac
Patrick Condon was censussed as a Creamery manager in 1911. There's no waterpower nearby so he must have had an oil engine and generator at the creamery...wherever that was. No sign of one nearby on the OSI maps. www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Leitrim/A...
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] The Cassini 6" shows an Electrical Works behind the Town Hall, behind the camera.
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ ah..very good Niall...good old Mrs Cassini Sixinch.
an poc
'P.J. VESEY HARNESS MAKER' on far right
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
bob.moore.guelph
And then there’s Pettigo that straddles two countries!
Architecture of Dublin
it looks like a weigh house at the end of the street