A view of Shop Street in Galway City in about 1955. The street is the principal thoroughfare through Galway. As the name suggests, it is the city’s main shopping street, and contains numerous old brick buildings, storefronts, and an array of bars. To the right in the photograph is Lynch’s Castle, the only complete secular medieval building left standing in Galway.
An image of Taaffe’s Castle in the coastal town of Carlingford in County Louth in about 1950. This fortified town house was purportedly built in the early sixteenth century by the Taaffe’s, an affluent merchant family.
An image of Slane Castle and its surrounding parkland in County Meath. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Slane Castle and the River Boyne / County Meath'.
An image captioned 'the River Boyne at Slane, County Meath'. The photograph shows the bridge and beyond the ‘Old Mill’ building and complex on the north bank of River Boyne at Slane.