'A soft day thank God', with the wet roads giving proof of a recent rainfall. Edgeworthstown is a charming wee town with a good sized main street set in an emerald green countryside. The growth of traffic rendered it a bottleneck, but thankfully now it has been by-passed! Perhaps it has even changed its name?

The consensus (half jokingly, half seriously) is that this image dates from a typical Irish summer, and could possibly be as much as a decade later than the suggested catalogue range (putting it perhaps in the 1910s or later). If so there's a suggestion that the young lady in the doorway of Monahan's shop could be [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Longford/Edgeworthstown/Main_Street/585171/ the Margaret listed in the 1911 census).....

Photographer: Robert French

Collection: <a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000313414">Lawrence Photograph Collection]

Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900. Possibly later.

NLI Ref: L_ROY_09977

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