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GREYSTONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 8
other images were captured in the two-day photo-shoot – some
forty-odd plates by my reckoning – would be another day’s work.
Errant plates
The errant plates niggled at me and I trawled through
everything yet again. It was both fruitful and frustrating. I found
some photos that seemed to fit the pattern I had teased out, and
others that were ambiguous.
The photograph (see below) that Derek Paine captioned
‘Rathdown Road, and Jink’s Hill, 1904’ on page 9 of his 1993
book bamboozled me right to the end. It was so obviously an
earlier photo and the Lawrence number 3302.W.L so clearly in
accord with the series I had identified, that I checked out the
detail only to confirm that. But, there was more to it than
immediately met the eye. It showed St Patrick’s Church before it
was lengthened, but most likely after the north transept was
added in 1875. Let me take you through it.
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