XPW042389 IRELAND (1933). General View, Carrick-On-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland, 1933. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing North/West.

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Title	[XPW042389] General View, Carrick-On-Suir, Tipperary, Ireland, 1933. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing North/West.
Reference	XPW042389
Date	1933
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Place name	CARRICK-ON-SUIR
Parish	IRELAND
District
Country	IRELAND
Easting / Northing	31283, 285802
Longitude / Latitude	-7.416042, 52.345925
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The John Dillon Bridge, built in the early 20th century and which is the penultimate, lowest bridging point on the Suir until Rice Bridge at Waterford. About five miles downstream from Carrick is Fiddown Bridge. Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:06:25 PM
The narrow, stone-built Old Bridge (1447). Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:03:21 PM
GSR line to Clonmel, opened in 1853 by the Waterford & Limerick Railway. The railway station in Carrick was also opened in the same year, on the north-east side of the town, with a gated level crossing 600 yards west of the main station buildings. Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:24:07 AM
Market town of Carrick-on-Suir, the creation of the Butler family who built a castle at the eastern end of the settlement in 1309, which is just off the bottom right corner of the photograph. Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:16:56 AM
Road to Clonmel Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:12:49 AM
Road to Portlaw, County Waterford Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:11:41 AM
Suburb of Carrickbeg (Abbeyside) on south side of the river. Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:09:40 AM
River Suir Report as Inappropriate	John Swain	Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:08:24 AM

User Comment Contributions

Carrick-on-Suir, Co.Tipperary, formerly Carrickmacgriffin, is a pleasantly situated market town on the Suir, 30 miles NW of Waterford and 13 miles E of Clonmel. The town is a convenient centre for exploring the middle section of the Suir Valley as well as the Comeragh and Knockmealdown Mountains.

In the 1936 Census the town had a modest population total of 4,766, a figure which changed little over the next 30 years (4,700 in 1956 and 4,900 in 1966). Traditionally, the town has fallen into the third category of urban centres in the Nore-Barrow-Suir basins, behind Waterford, Kilkenny and Clonmel, but ahead of Cahir, Callan and Fethard. Industries have been associated with the processing of local farm produce and a small tannery was established here in 1938, followed by a factory making chocolate crumb. A golf course was founded on the Waterford side of the town, also in 1938, at Garravoone, a links the contributor played 15 years ago!The current population is about 5,500.

John Swain

Sunday 12th of October 2014 09:43:38 AM