A view of the textile mill on the road to Rochestown on the outskirts of Cork city in about 1905. It is possible that the image shows one of the many textile mills which operated in the Douglas area of Cork at the beginning of the twentieth century. Douglas began to develop as an urban settlement in the early eighteenth century. The mills produced sailcloth and supplied sails to the Royal Navy among other clients.
Two glass plates titled ‘On the roadside, Rochestown’. The cover annotation provides a date of 1906. The image is of two women (possibly a mother and daughter) greeting a group a children on a wooded path. The same women appear in the photograph at CA PH-1-29-D.
Two plates showing two women sitting beside a wooded area. The annotated cover reads: ‘On top of the hill, Rochestown’. The same women appear in the image at CA PH-1-28.
A view of a group of people (including the station master and children) at the Rochestown Railway Station, County Cork. The annotated cover reads ‘Group at Rochestown Station before completion of loop line’.
A file containing eleven glass stereo plates of views of landscapes, scenery, and people. The images include: 33 (a) Three individuals on the roadside just overlooking the village of Raffeen in County Cork. 33 (b) A group of five individuals (probably a family group) collecting berries along the roadside. 33 (c) A portrait of a sitting woman with a cottage in the background. 33 (d) Four individuals working on the train line at Mageney Railway Station, County Kildare. 33 (e) A family group of seven individuals (two women and five children). 33 (f) A kneeling religious wearing a broad-brimmed hat cradling a young dog. 33 (g) A view of the Strawberry Beds in Dublin in about 1910. 33 (h) A woman wearing a long dress and a flat cap standing at a garden gate. 33 (i) Five dray horses standing harnessed to carts hauling large kegs at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin. A view of some of the working horses used at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin, in about 1910. The photograph was probably taken from atop of the old Capuchin Friary which fronted onto Bow Street. 33 (j) Two women (one sitting and holding a jug) on a forested hillside. The plate is missing a portion of the right-hand bottom corner. 33 (k) A large group of schoolchildren outside presumably a school building.
A view of four individuals working on the train line at Mageney Railway Station, County Kildare, in about 1910. Opened in 1846, the station formed part of the Great Southern and Western Railway line from Cherryville Junction to Kilkenny.
Two women (one sitting and holding a jug) on a forested hillside. The standing girl appears to be collecting berries. The image was probably taken near the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown, County Cork.
