tarboat's photos with the keyword: tipperary

As the sun dips below the horizon the swifts are flying in huge numbers just before going to roost in the extensive reedbeds below Meelick Lock on the Shannon. It was actually pouring with rain too!

A murmuration of swifts over the River Shannon at Victoria Lock, Meelick. This is the meeting point of Counties Offaly, Tipperary and Galway. It was pouring with rain at the time.

Corrugated iron maker's mark in the roof of a derelict holiday home at Dromineer in the Irish Republic Galvanised iron with the Redcliffe brand stamp has been manufactured since mid-1874 by a partnership between William Bomford Wright and Joseph Tinn, trading under the name W.B. Wright & Co., Chapel Street, St. Philip’s, Bristol. The trademarks and goodwill associated with the Redcliffe Crown Galvanised Iron Works were acquired by John Lysaght Ltd on 21 May 1895 for £990. In 1920 Lysaght sold its British interests to Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (GKN). While the brands ‘Queen’s Head,’ ‘Fleur-de-Lis’ and ‘Orb’ were continued from previous times, the Redcliffe Crown brand seems to have been discontinued at that time. Information from: Redcliffe Crown Corrugated Iron in Australasia, Its History, Marketing and Distribution 1875-1921 - Dirk HR Spennemann

This is another example of the type of holiday homes that were once common in Britain and Ireland. Here at Dromineer on the shore of Lough Derg there are several decaying homes that are not likely to survive much longer.

The Rialto in Nenagh hasn't shown a film for quite a while. It is now a well stocked hardware shop.

During the first half of the 20th century there were many hundreds (possible thousand) of holiday homes to be found across Britain. Today very few survive as holiday requirements have changed and few people are prepared to accept the rather basic conditions that these places offered. In the Irish Republic there are a number of survivors in better condition than most of those in the UK. Even so, it is clear that neglect has set in at this lovely example at Dromineer on the shores of Lough Derg. To make the shot I had to hold the camera over my head in order to clear the rather overgrown hedge that is symptomatic of such places.

Late afternoon on Lough Derg

In the Arra Mountains of Tipperary are the Killaloe slate quarries. These quarries flourished in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but now stand idle and derelict. There is still some slate quarrying on a small scale at one of the quarries. In past times a lot of the finished slate was shipped out by barge from a pier on Lough Derg.