File:Garinish Island Tower, Glengarriff, Co. Cork (19919085130).jpg
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Lawrence takes us on a visit to a Garinish Island that is more muckheap than garden. Is this now part of the fabulous gardens??? I am with [/photos/129555378@N07/ sharon.corbet] with regards to the inadequacies of some of the mapping systems, the flicker system has no entry whatsoever for Garnish Island. The best comment in my opinion was posted by [/photos/johnspooner/ John Spooner] wherein he relates an extract from: "Our Autumn Trip through Munster part VI" which was published in The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser on Saturday, November 21, 1863 I have spoken of the little island with the Martello tower, lying about a mile down the Bay, from Glengariff, it is called Garnish Island. You may have a boat at the inn-door, and sail down to the place, and be back in less than an hour, and it is well worthy of a visit. A little two-oared boat swiftly bore us thither, and the boatman told us how that the tower there was built " for fear of the French;" for the year after "the invasion," fortifications were erected along the Bay, and on most of the islands. We landed at a rude jetty, rather hurriedly as the boatmen seemed to think, for one of them exclaimed: "Aisy, aisy, Sir! betther be sure than sorry," - a good maxim, worthy of being noted, like those of captain Cuttle. The "invasion" referred to (as the article explains) was the attempt in 1796 to land a Fench army of 15000 men (with arms for 50000 more) in Bantry Bay. Photographer: Robert French Collection: The Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: between ca. 1865-1914 NLI Ref: L_ROY_08685 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie |
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