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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Cabins in the Claddagh

Item

Title

Cabins in the Claddagh

Description

View of several dwelling houses in The Claddagh, Galway City. The houses all single story 'cabins'. Each house has a thatched roof and a chimney. A group of over 10 children are visible outside one house., a solitary women is visible outside another house, a woman with her back to the camera and two children are visible outside another house. These dwellings remained as homes in the Claddagh area of Galway until the 1930s when they were demolished as unfit habitation.

Contributor

Welch, Robert John (1859-1936) (Photographer)

Coverage

Galway, Ireland
The Claddagh
Ireland, West of
Europe--Ireland--Galway
53.2664112354, -9.0573194979
19th century

Date

1894

Format

electronic resource
285x365mm

Identifier

nuigalway:5121
local: P28/13

Publisher

NUI Galway Library

Subject

Built environment--children--Vernacular housing
Built environment--children--Vernacular housing--Galway, Ireland--The Claddagh--Ireland, West of--19th century

Type

StillImage
black-and-white positive

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