Tides&Tales Finding Time Taken from Waterford Libraries local history online resources digital copy of Andy Taylor’s book A Glimpse of other days.

Map of #Waterford from 1673 from the Digital Repository of Ireland.

New ancestry.com update - My Irish went from 93% to 97% and they threw in a cheeky bit of Norwegian. Well, I guess I'm a viking now.

Childhood Memories. John Lyons the windmill man outside Dunnes Stores 1992 Waterford City, Photo Credit Gerry Walsh. #Waterford

Ballybricken Gaol (1948). Originally built in 1727 on the site of a military barracks. On the 4th March 1943, a section of the gaol wall collapsed on top of homes adjacent to it, killing nine people. It was knocked a year later in 1949. Colourised with DeOldify & photoshop.

As its the last Friday, my monthly blog explores a curious placename on the River Barrow in Co #Kilkenny that may have originated with a highway robber. tidesandtales.ie/white-horse/

Smailholm Tower, Borders (Scotland) Historic Scotland image & reconstruction. A Pringle (Hoppringle) family stronghold. #SmailholmTower #ScottishCastles #HistoryRebuilt

Harristown Passage Tomb in Co. #Waterford with Kilmacomb Hill seen in the distance.

Another fabulous story in this year's Waterfordhistory journal David Carrolls story of the last ship built in the Neptune shipyard, #Waterford the steam yacht Maritana, claimed at the time to be the "most beautiful yacht built in #Ireland " seen here off Reginalds Tower. NLI AH POOLE

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

I wonder who he was. 7th of June, 1893.

The Cross (#1) Waterford. Named for the historic market cross that once stood at the end of Patrick Street. It was demolished in 1750, but is still named the cross by the older generation in Waterford to this day.