Wikimedia Commons

File:Lazy Beds, Newcastle Co.Down (18259063490).jpg

Original file ‎(1,010 × 952 pixels, file size: 537 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description
English: An idyllic Rural/Seaside shot with some fine horticultural practice in the foreground but where is it?


Location was identified by our great supporter [/photos/8468254@N02/ derangedlemur] as Newcastle Co. Down.

Is it me or do "lazy beds" remind you of anything else but the great famine? Driving or walking in the west of Ireland you can still see the remains of the beds on the high slopes of hills and mountains. Even in good times the poor people must have been destitute.

Thanks to [/photos/arensee/ arensee] for his "today photo" from the same location, I have linked to it below.

[/photos/16693700@N03/ Bwana_Samaki] Tells us "In seaside locations the lazy beds were made of layers of sand and seaweed, with the windward side of each bed being higher to afford protection to the young plants. This allowed cultivation of otherwise hostile land"


Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton

Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence

Collection: The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection

Date: [between ca. 1865-1883

NLI Ref: STP_1280
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Date
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/18259063490/
Author National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr sets
InfoField
  • Town and Country Views
Flickr pools
InfoField
  • Ireland
  • Glass Negatives
  • archives & archivists on flickr
  • MONOCROMO// -Tópico de la semana #
  • Ireland - Country wide shots.
  • Location Hunters
  • TOWN/ VILLAGES
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
  • Lawrence Collection
  • Stereographic negatives
  • James Simonton
  • Frederick Holland Mares
  • John Fortune Lawrence
  • William Mervyn Lawrence
  • National Library of Ireland
  • Newcastle
  • Co. Down
  • Northern Ireland
  • Ulster
  • Ireland
  • Lazy Beds
  • Potatoes
Flickr posted date
InfoField
4 June 2015
Camera location54° 12′ 51.49″ N, 5° 53′ 20.53″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing edit

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by National Library of Ireland on The Commons at https://www.flickr.com/photos/47290943@N03/18259063490. It was reviewed on 13 July 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

13 July 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:04, 13 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 12:04, 13 July 20151,010 × 952 (537 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{subst:chc}} {{information |description={{en|1=An idyllic Rural/Seaside shot with some fine horticultural practice in the foreground but where is it?<br> <br> Location was identified by our great supporter <b>[/photos/8468254@N0...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Lazy_Beds,_Newcastle_Co.Down_(18259063490).jpg&oldid=652543776"