A Bog cabin, Benlettery

Title

A Bog cabin, Benlettery

Description

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 aprons despite the squalor of their surroundings.

Publisher

NUI Galway Library

Date

1894

Contributor

Welch, Robert John (1859-1936) (Photographer)

Format

nonprojected graphic
285x365mm

Type

StillImage
black-and-white positive

Coverage

Ireland, West of
Twelve Bens
Twelve Pins
Benlettery
Europe--Ireland--Galway
53.4696770059,-9.8529976353
19th century