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An image of the ruins of Baldongan Church (also known as 'Baldongan Castle') near Skerries in North County Dublin.

A postcard print of the Browne-Clayton Monument on Carrigadaggan Hill, Carrigbyrne, County Wexford. This Corinthian column was designed by Thomas Alfred Cobden (1794-1842) in about 1840 at the request of Robert Browne-Clayton to perpetuate the memory of his comrade, General Sir Ralph Abercromby (1731-1801), who died in Egypt during the Napoleonic Wars. Published by the 'Strand Hotel, Rosslare / From the Movie Film "Historic Wexford"'.

An image of the exterior of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Carlow town.

An aerial photograph of the Church of Christ the King in Cabra in Dublin. The church was designed by the firm of John Joseph Robinson (1887-1965) and Richard Cyril Keefe (c.1889-1965) and was formally opened in October 1933. A printed annotation on the reverse provides provenance information: ‘Army Air Corps / Date: 20 Feb. 1937 / Area: Cabra Chapel / Lens: 10” / Height: 600 m’.

A view of the exterior of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Knock, County Mayo, in about 1950.

An image of the early medieval monastic site at Clonmacnoise in County Offaly. The photograph was taken by James Roland Bainbridge (1891-1967).

A pictorial postcard print of the town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford in about 1945. Some of the prominent buildings in the image include Enniscorthy Castle (centre), a late sixteenth-century fortified tower house, St. Aidan’s Cathedral (background, centre-left), the largest building in Ireland designed (1843) by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the architect responsible for the interior of the Palace of Westminster in London, and St. Mary’s Church of Ireland (left), a Gothic Revival style church built between 1840 and 1850 to the designs of Joseph Welland (1798-1860), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.

Postcard print of Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, in c.1940.

A fisherman mending his floats at Ardmore in County Waterford in about 1955. A manuscript annotation to the print reads 'The lobster fisherman at Ardmore, County Waterford, repairs his floats'. The photograph is credited to F. O'Brien, Fermoy, County Cork.

An image of a farmer using a horse-drawn plough in rural Ireland.