Can anyone ID location of photo?

kildarejohn

This is an old photo inherited from family, but I dont know anything about where it was taken, the date or the names of anyone in it. The background includes what looks like an unusually shaped church tower/steeple, and I wonder can anyone identify where it is? I am presuming Dublin as family lived there, bu

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t could be anywhere.

kildarejohn

Looking at photo again, the tower in the background looks more like a watchtower than a church tower. Does anyone know if there were any towers that looked like that at Mountjoy Jail in early 1900's?

Oscar_Madison

Cathal Brugha barracks or actually Richmond Barracks has a turret sticking out of it in a modern day photo I’m looking at now

Yeah Right

Definitely a church, I'd say.

Looks like East Wall church a bit, if there is any connection to the area:

GBX

What area of Dublin did your family come from?

kildarejohn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122227284#Comment_122227284

The family lived at North Circular Rd in 1901, by 1911 some of them had moved to Rathmines. The photo has NCR address on the back. But I think the photo was more likely taken at some premises like a tennis club, rather than in the back garden of their home. My reason for thinking tennis club - the high netting wire fencing and the fact that some of the men are in sporting clothes.

Oscar_Madison

The turret reminds me of some of the churches around Christchurch cathedral and towards Guinness brewery for some reason - not Christchurch itself but some of the buildings in that area

Oscar_Madison

here’s my final guess - St Thomas Indian Orthodox Church - there were many Georgian houses around that area just down from great Denmark st at the turn of the century, eventually knocked in the early 80s as tenements -NCR is reasonable walking distance from there

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g186605-d14204351-Reviews-St_Thomas_Indian_Orthodox_Church-Dublin_County_Dublin.html#/media-atf/14204351/?albumid=-160&type=0&category=-160

Jellybaby_1

St. Thomas's is still a Church of Ireland parish as far as I'm aware although the Indian church may also have access to it as well. Things change so much I can't keep up.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122228415#Comment_122228415

That church is not remotely tall enough and the pitch of the roof is nothing like as steep. I do think it's a church or cathedral from the extreme pitch of the roof, which I can't think of any other type of building having.

I think that tower is on a building in front of a church or cathedral behind it, I don't think it's actually part of it

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122231492#Comment_122231492

Yeah, I think the tower is in front of the building with the steep roof. I think the edges go something like this:

kildarejohn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122231660#Comment_122231660

Gregor is spot on. The particularly unusual feature of the tower is the sloping walls. I am sure the photo was taken in a tennis or similar sports club, since in the original photo (too big to scan it all) there is clearly a white line painted on the grass. So we are looking for a church (and/or a prison/asylum watch tower) beside a sports ground.

GBX

If it says NCR would it be anywhere down near Grangegorman? Any old sports grounds there ?

cobham

Is it to do with brewing? I am thinking of St Patrick's Tower…. part of former Roe distillery complex off James Street …. but that is not it and no green areas nearby.

kildarejohn

I think Cobham might be right. Doing Google image search I found several Maltings buildings shaped like our tower.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122231492#Comment_122231492

Plus, St. Thomas's church was only built in 1931, 20 years after the photograph was taken.