Workmen at Clonbrock Estate, Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland 1870s

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4 comments
  1. Lovely photo op! I always look at photos like this, and wonder about the story behind them. 🙂💚

  2. Wow. Dude on the right looks like an illustration from *Punch*. Great find.

  3. When ever I look at old photos I just think of grandmother telling stories about helping her mother wash and repair clothes by hand. It is not hard work and clothes cost them a lot more than is does us. Am wondering if these were posing for the picture? Wearing good clothes? Even guessing their age ?

    But I want to: the guy on the left is late teens/early 20’s. Guy on the right is 40’s/50’s but guessing he is has a problem with his teeth or something as his face is a bit sunken. They are defiantly not dressed for working in a field, no one wears a white shirt with a tie or a bowler hat to work in a field. Guessing it is a fair or something as they are both dressed up.

  4. That’s just Ted, heading on down to work on the drainage in the lower field.

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