You've all helped solve some of our Fergus O'Connor Collection "unknown location" photos very speedily over the last couple of weeks. Thought this one would be a toughie, but I was wrong!

Niall McAuley checked our catalogue (Note to self: Always conduct search of whole NLI catalogue in future!) and found a photo of this Killarney hotel in our Lawrence Collection. But any and all information about this Hotel still very welcome.

Gerry Ward contributed this very lovely description from Samuel Carter's Week in Killarney (1843): "At Cloghreen, close to Mucross Abbey, there are two good hotels; they do not vie with the three we have named, but they are comfortable and somewhat extensive, and the charges are less than those of their rivals. “The Mucross Hotel” is close to the Abbey, and near to it is O’Sullivan’s Hotel. They are both near the foot of Mangerton, within half a mile of the Torc Waterfall – the most beautiful of the Killarney Falls – and on the direct route to the Upper Lake, and the “new line” to Kenmare. Their situation therefore is highly advantageous, being equally “convenient” to the three lakes; but “the view” is excluded by the tall trees of Mr Herbert’s demense."

And the man is still unidentified, and our date is very speculative...

Date: Circa 1900?