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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

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Source Garinish Island Tower, Glengarriff, Co. Cork
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Robert French  (1841–1917)  wikidata:Q42321926
 
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Date of birth/death 11 November 1841 Edit this at Wikidata 24 June 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dublin Edit this at Wikidata Dublin Edit this at Wikidata
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Camera location51° 44′ 46.09″ N, 9° 32′ 24.57″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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