Telegraph Office, but where? Adrigole, that's where!

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Telegraph Office, but where? Adrigole, that's where!

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I had hoped that this one would be a fiendishly difficult challenge, and so it proved! This is from our Fergus O'Connor Collection, and all that we had on it was Post and telegraph office: exterior view in an unidentified, rural location. I asked if we could improve on this?..Yes, we could! See the comments below for dogged pursuit of an elusive location - definitely Adrigole in West Cork. More tentative was derangedlemur's ( 8468254@N02/ ) suggestion that the gentleman in the photo above was Jeremiah Cronin ( http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Ardigole/Adrigole/376901/ ) , 28, teacher and husband of Hannah Cronin, 31, Post Mistress, but that too proved to be the case!..All of us here at the National Library would like to thank BearaBoy ( ...nlireland/8366240991/#comment72157632654907983 ) for going above and beyond the call on this one. He tracked down Peg O'Sullivan, then aged 96, who was a goldmine of Adrigole memories. She knew Jeremiah because he taught the boys in her school, and he was married to Nan Cronin, the postmistress at Adrigole. Peg herself worked in the “new” Adrigole post office from 1934. Our thanks, and very best regards to Peg of Peg's Shop in Adrigole (1916-2016) ( 92418093@N08/8434107109/in/photostream/ ) a mighty woman with a formidable memory!..Photographer: Fergus O'Connor..Collection: Fergus O'Connor Collection ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000314125 ) ..Date: Around 1919-23..NLI Ref.: OCO 26 ( vtls000290457 ) ..You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )

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1911 - 1916
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