A view of the small harbour at Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1960. Roundstone (in Irish, ‘Cloch na Rón’, meaning ‘seal’s rock’) was built in the 1820s by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), a Scottish civil engineer who had settled in the locality.
An image of construction work on the Pollaphuca (Poulaphouca) electricity generating station in County Wicklow. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Poulaphouca Water Scheme / unfinished / awaiting completion / showing turbines'. The photograph is credited to Frank O'Brien, Fermoy, County Cork.