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  • Collection: Balfour Album

Large group of children, both boys and girls, mostly facing camera. They are standing in front of a cottage whose partially white-washed gable is visible. Many of the girls are wearing white pinafores. Some of the boys are wearing traditional Aran…

Six people are standing or sitting outside the entrance to a poorly constructed thatched cabin. The walls appear to be of dry stone construction and planks are used to weigh down the thatch. The girls in the photograph are barefoot but wearing white…

Photograph of wheeled vehicle drawn by four horses on a road. There are mountains and a lake in the background. A thatched cabin in poor repair is visible behind the Long Car, which is standing on a roadway.The is a stack of turf in the foreground.…

The photograph shows a collection of neatly thatched stone built cottages, some of which are whitewashed. Two children sit on the wall while a man stands outside the gate. A woman is visible in front of the door way of the cottage.

The photograph shows a whitewashed thatched cabin with a door and two windows. The small garden in front is surrounded by a dry-stone wall. A woman wearing a shawl and an apron is standing in front of the cottage looking at the camera. A dog sits on…

View of a thatched and partially white-washed cabin which appears to have been extended or may have a barn for housing animals at one end. A substantially cultivated garden with ridges ready for planting is visible in front of the cabin surrounded by…

View of rushing water over rocks. Welch's caption indicates the water is running off the Maamturk mountains.

View depicting steep and rocky mountain terrain.

Three men are holding a currach aloft on the seashore. Four more currachs, as well as more people, are visible in the background. Currachs are wooden framed boats covered in tanned leather. They are propelled by oars and are extremely light and fast.…

View of lake in foreground with large house and mountain in the distance. The lake shore is densely wooded. Welch tells us this is Ballynahinch. The house was originally built in the 1840s by Thomas Martin whose estate was bankrupted by the famine.…

View of river with rocky shoreline. Mountain rising in background. The Ballyinahinch river is a famous fishing ground in Connemara. The mountain in the background is Benlettery.

View depicting steep sloping rocky mountain terrain. Welch's first love was natural history and this is evident by the caption where he wishes to draw the viewer's attention to the effect of glaciation on the rock face.

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…

View of Cashel Mountain or Hill with the road running below it along the shore of Cashel Bay. A thatched cabin, with an outbuilding, is visible in the foreground. A more substantial white two-storey, possibly slated building, is visible in the…

View of water with buildings in the distance. Two of the buildings are large and two storey while the other two are thatched cabins.

View of mountain rising in the background from lakeshore.

A woman working a spinning wheel stands outside a partially white washing thatched cabin. A man wearing a cap and knitted scarf stands in the doorway. A basket and a shovel are on the ground close to the spinning wheel. Wool spinning was seen as one…

A view of the railway bridge over the Corrib at Woodquay taken from the western shoreline of the river. The iron bridge is supported on limestone arched columns which are still visible in the river at the site. Two boats are moored on the western…

View of two mountain climbers on steep rocky slope. Welch informs us this is Ben an Saighduir. Tradition suggests it is so called because a member of the Army Ordnance Corps was killed here during map surveying work for the first edition of the…

A wall constructed of substantial cut stones is visible, surmounted by a large growth of ivy. The doorway in the centre narrows from the ground towards the lintel and is described by Welch as cyclopian. The door way and building are substantially the…
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