Howth Harbour and Irelands Eye - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

A visit to the Stereo Pairs Collection today lets us stay in Howth, and gives a view of the area that perhaps neither you nor I has ever seen in reality. Today's fashionable suburb of Dublin is seen in its rustic splendour as a little fishing community. And is almost unrecognisable! When the stereo pairs were first uploaded here they were beautiful, but now,with the facility of "mega zoomability", they are exquisite! It is a pleasure to be able share them with the world...Apart from a search for dogs, and a discussion on how much Howth changed even in the decades after this image, today's investigations focused on date. And, with help inparticular from BeachcomberAustralia ( /photos/beachcomberaustralia/ ) and Niall McAuley ( /photos/gnmcauley/ ) , the date has been refined to c.1880s - based not least on the visible Harbour Master's House ( http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11359035 ) on the West Pier, which dates to that circa that decade. Otherwise we have confirmation that we're looking down from the hill at Balglass Road, along Main Street/Abbey Street towards the harbour, and out to Ireland's Eye........Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton..Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence..Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000034077 ) ..Date: Catalogue gives c.1860-1883. Likely c.1880s..NLI Ref: STP_0858 ( vtls000251277 ) ..You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )