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According to the details on the link this is "Thatched cottage and lane, Limerick City"! Morning Mary grew up in Limerick City many moons ago and while similar lanes and cottages were there aplenty a lane leading up to a hill like that one were as rare as hen's teeth! One would need to move out into the county or even, God forbid, into County Clare to find such a scene. So where is it and what does it look like now?

Photographer: Irish Tourist Association Photographer

Collection: Irish Tourist Association Photographic Collection

Date: 1942

NLI Ref: NPA ITA 1406 (Box VII)

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josepmreves
- 29/Jun/2023 08:02:29
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 29/Jun/2023 08:24:27
Two people spotted, so far ...
Niall McAuley
- 29/Jun/2023 08:25:32
A catalogue search for NPA (Box VII) kelly shows 15 results, and 13 of them look like Limerick City to me at first glance. Searching NPA box o'kelly finds some hits in Kildare. Kildare also not notable for hills, though.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 29/Jun/2023 08:25:46
Three ... !
O Mac
- 29/Jun/2023 08:30:36
Looks like Glenosheen, Co Limerick
O Mac
- 29/Jun/2023 08:32:11
Street view. maps.app.goo.gl/ukQ4mieCzYNN5Cy67
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 29/Jun/2023 08:38:28
That shiny tin roof is due for some tlc - goo.gl/maps/xUqN4e2vKUHMKC3x7 (2009)
Niall McAuley
- 29/Jun/2023 08:53:59
Seefin Mountain, apparently, at 528m the highest of the Ballyhoura mountains.
Niall McAuley
- 29/Jun/2023 09:01:16
NPA ITA 1448 (Box VII) is a view from up top, but looking a bit more easterly than a direct reverse view, does not show the village I think.
Niall McAuley
- 29/Jun/2023 09:08:46
At the top of the hill shown the 25" marks Carn Fearadhaigh. From the annals of the four masters: 710 AD - The battle of Carn Fearadhaigh by the northern Des, wherein Cormac, son of Finghin, King of Munster, was slain.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 29/Jun/2023 09:09:15
Gorgeous Googleball from the top - goo.gl/maps/WaMVXU3wye83Mf1x8
suckindeesel
- 29/Jun/2023 10:00:50
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Unfortunately, ‘You can't eat scenery'
John Spooner
- 29/Jun/2023 11:59:51
Limerick Echo - Tuesday 31 October 1899:
Irish Language Notes. EDITED BY THE LIMERICK BRANCH OF THE GAELIC LEAGUE, WHERE THE FIANS RESTED. When Fionn Mac Cumhail and his warriors laid aside their armour they often spent days and weeks in hunting the deer and boar on the green hill sides of Eire. In the pauses of the the sport they gathered together on some favourite hiIl to rest and feast. These places were therefore known in the old time as Suidhe Finn or Suidhe fhinn ie, Finns resting place, and even at the present the hills have their ancient names. Locally there is one among the Galtees and there is another hill called Seef in (Suidhe Fiun ) some three miles south of Kilfinnan. In the shadow of the latter is Glenosheen i.e, * the vale of Oisin,”—the great warrior bard of the Fians, the son of Fionn and father of Oscar.
suckindeesel
- 29/Jun/2023 19:40:09
Gleann Oisín, ‘the glen of Oisín’