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An image of a Córas Iompair Éireann diesel locomotive pulling into a station.

An image of men launching a currach from a rocky inlet on the Blasket Islands off the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry.

A view of the Irish Lightship ‘Comet’ at Dún Laoghaire in about 1960. The ship was built in 1904 by J. Reid in Glasgow and measured ninety-six feet in length and twenty-three feet in breadth. The light vessel was decommissioned in 1965 and sold (for £7,000) to the shipbroking firm of Turner and Hickman in Glasgow. The ship later had a colourful history as an off-shore pirate radio station used by Radio Scotland.

A view of the pier in the harbour at Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1960.

A print titled 'a Claddagh Group’, Galway, c.1940.

A view of a boy in the window of the ruined medieval church at Kilmalkedar near Dingle in County Kerry in about 1940. The site of Kilmalkedar consists of a large ecclesiastical complex with archaeological remains dating from the early to late medieval period. It is dedicated to a little-known local saint called Maolcethair. At the centre of this site is the twelfth century Hiberno-Romanesque Church. According to tradition, those suffering from rheumatism, ‘falling sickness’ (epilepsy), or other ills might be restored to health by passing three times through the window.

A view of the Monk’s Fishing House on the River Cong in County Mayo in about 1940. Situated not far from the site of the former Augustinian Abbey of Cong, this small stone structure probably dates to the early sixteenth century. The fishing house is located on an island on the River Cong leading towards nearby Lough Corrib. It is built on a platform of stones over a small arched opening which allows the river to flow underneath the floor. A trapdoor in the floor is thought to have been used for a net to catch fish. It is believed a line connected the fishing house to the monastery kitchen to alert the monks to a fresh catch.

A view of Clock Gate Tower, the most visible landmark in the centre of Youghal, County Cork.

Two Capuchin friars walk around the ruins of Ross Errilly Friary, sometimes referred to as Ross Abbey, near Headford, in County Galway. This Franciscan friary is among the best-preserved medieval ecclesiastical sites in Ireland.

An aerial view of St. Jarlath's College and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tuam, County Galway, in about 1935.