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A view of the ruins of Ardtully House near Kilgarvan in County Kerry. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Grounds of Ardtully Castle / showing the turret of the Orpen Mansion'. The original castle on this site was destroyed during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. In 1847, Sir Richard Orpen (1788-1876) demolished the remains of the castle and replaced it with a five-bay, two-storey Scottish-Baronial style house. This house was itself destroyed during the War of Independence in 1921.

A photographic print of a view of the ruins of Graiguenamanagh Abbey in County Kilkenny in 1792. An annotation on the reverse reads 'The ruins as they were in 1792 / 20 years before restoration'.

An image of the ornamental stonework doorway in Graiguenamanagh Abbey in County Kilkenny. An annotation on the reverse reads 'ornamental doorway excavated in 1916 / part of the pavement of the original / It opens off the baptistry'.

An image of Douglas Hyde (1860-1949), President of Ireland, leaving St. Andrew's Church on Westland Row in Dublin.

A photographic print of W.T. Cosgrave (1880-1865), President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

An image of William Joseph Walsh (1841-1921), Archbishop of Dublin from 1885 to 1921.

A view of Bantry Harbour on the coast of West Cork in about 1940.

A view of a road running through the Spelga Pass in the Mourne Mountains in County Down.

A view of Newcastle Bridge (an eighteenth-century four-arch road bridge over the River Inny) near Ballymahon in County Longford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Newcastle Bridge near Ballymahon, County Longford'.

A view of horse-drawn hay harvesting in County Carlow in c.1935. The image shows the Brownshill Dolmen, a large megalithic portal tomb in County Carlow. The date of the tomb’s construction has been estimated to be between 4000 and 3000 BC. At one hundred metric tons, the dolmen’s cap stone is reputed to be the largest in Europe.