Pics of Maynooth c.1900

LeixlipRed

Know someone who works in the National Library and they've an online collection of tens of thousands of photos. Check out these ones of Maynooth. Hasn't changed a bit!







Loads more on there as well.

LeixlipRed

Also, is this the Aula?? It's hard to tell!



It's amazing how little Maynooth has changed!

Holsten

Cool pictures.

Very weird how little it's changed.

LeixlipRed

Do a search for Maynooth in that archive and you'll see that the college hasn't changed a tap in a century. Weird feeling looking back a hundred years and seeing the exact same building configuration you see every day.

pakblue

Is M.P O'Brien now Brady's or the Roost?

I think its the Roost as if you look past the second tree on the right the building looks like the LA/Soon to be Mantra

Wow them tall old trees outside south campus are young and small :eek:

LeixlipRed

It's definitely the Roost. I think Brady's was probably there in those days. Recall someone telling me it's over 100 years old. Though I might be confusing it with Caulfields.

Ostrom

They from the Lawrence collection?

I remember the Rye used to have some prints framed on the wall

LeixlipRed

It is yeh.

funky penguin

They're brilliant! Thanks for sharing! I'm looking in the online archive, but I think I'm lost. Could you give us a link, just to make sure I'm looking in the right place?

LeixlipRed

Sorry, forgot to add a linky. Here

funky penguin

Wow!
http://213.94.210.45/u?/glassplates,19989

hehe. Logic and Rhetoric haven't changed a bit!

http://213.94.210.45/u?/glassplates,19999

pakblue

funky penguin wrote: »

Wow!

Flip is that the church at the T junction when you come from the Kilcock road?

Wonder what it looked like the other side of the camera?

funky penguin

Think it is, yeah, and snap. I'd love to see it reversed.

rhapsody

These are lovely pics & its great to be in a place that has changed so little in so many years.

LeixlipRed

Here's another fantastic one. Note the old bridge over the canal. Also note the football pitch were now there's a GAA pitch. And the slope down to the train station hasn't changed at all.

PrivateEye

Fantastic, thanks for posting these up.

I'd love to see the college invest in nice prints (Or even a few blown-up versions) of these images and place them around the campus, with NUIM being such a 'new' University itself I think some people would find these images of Pats literally a century ago hard to believe

pakblue

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Here's another fantastic one. Note the old bridge over the canal. Also note the football pitch were now there's a GAA pitch. And the slope down to the train station hasn't changed at all.

Always wondered what that bridge looked like.

Also what is up with the football pitch it looks like soccer goals but there are two other white poles beside the goals what is up with that?
OR is it GAA goals with the top bars removed to the side?

LeixlipRed

Nah, they're the poles for the net in the goal.

Ostrom

If you ever have time, check out the reading room in temple bar, most of the collection is on microfiche

irish_goat

pakblue wrote: »

Always wondered what that bridge looked like.

Also what is up with the football pitch it looks like soccer goals but there are two other white poles beside the goals what is up with that?
OR is it GAA goals with the top bars removed to the side?

Looks more like an Aussie rules pitch. :P

gra26

Is that the bridge you can still see sticking out of the canal?

LeixlipRed

I don't remember what the old bridge looked like but it's in the same position alright. Can't imagine a wooden bridge like that lasting 100 years though. The old bridge only blew down in the late 90s I think.