This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
A print titled (on the reverse): ‘Turf / Lunchtime on the bog / Turf workers on Clonsast bog, County Offaly’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell.
An image of men collecting turf in traditional creels. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Turf gatherers from the West of Ireland'.
An image of a turf gatherer. A typescript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Turf: one seventh of Ireland is covered with turf, varying from one or two feet to twenty feet in depth’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell, Dundrum, County Dublin.
An image of a turf-cutting competition at Allenwood in County Kildare. A typescript annotation on the reverse notes that the image was taken in June 1942.
An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).