The 'Garda' post............. you used to see them all over the place, then we went through a phase (may still be going through it!) where there wasn't a garda in the smaller towns at night, only 9-5 daytime! Anyway, I don't notice these posts very often these days - and this one, it was outside a building which I think was a pre-fab down in Tipperary

and then this house - it's on the road to Drum in County Tipperary, except I can't remember where I was coming from to get to Drum!! Somewhere else in Tipperary I suppose.

This would actually have been a decent sized house when you think of it, probably a 2nd Class house by the 1901 & 1911 census standards - it has four windows, probably three rooms inside and the roof was thatched.

The old houses always make me stop to think about who lived in them and where they went to - did they just go up the road to a new house or emigrate. This one though, it's right beside the school house in Bilboa, Co. Carlow so I think it was probably the School Masters House. Lots of times the Master or Mistress (usually Master) lived in a house right beside the school and this one looks as though it could be the right age. Pity to see it deserted now though and if this was a house in the city, there's be someone living in it.

I've got more photographs of the area on my web site at http://www.from-ireland.net/car/places/bilboa/index.htm and I will be putting the photographs of gravestones from the Church which is just up the road a bit from the school on line as soon as I get them indexed.