![Another fine Lawrence street shot taken by the inimitable Mr. French to start our week! Here we have not only a goodly, straight and clean street but the denizens thereof watching the artist as he takes their image for posterity. Looking at the lady with the donkey and cart dressed in a shawl and bowler hat it strikes me how closely that dress resembles the dress of the women in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador in the high Andes. Can anybody see the man with one leg?
Thanks to all of today's contributors - including to [/photos/66311327@N05/ B-59] and [/photos/gnmcauley/ Niall McAuley] who draw our attention to the street names. Including that the main street we see ("Earl Street") was renamed (to "Pearse Street") in the decades that followed this image, while one of the side-streets has an Irish language street sign (later standardised to "Boithrín Tobar an Sconna")...
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: between 1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_ROY_08093
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie](https://prod-images.planyourroadtrips.com/img/city-images/an-muileann-gcearr-ie-535247--73385/0-Earl_Street__Mullingar__Co._Westmeath__26583173053_.jpg?w=1080&q=80&f=webp)
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Trim Castle
Ireland's largest Anglo-Norman castle, used as a Braveheart filming location, with a massive 20-sided keep dominating the Boyne Valley.
36 km · about 40 min drive
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An Muileann gCearr
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An Muileann gCearr sits on the route: 25 minutes from Rochfortbridge, 36km from Trim Castle.
An Muileann gCearr is a town located in Leinster, Ireland. With a population of 17,262, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Annebrook House Hotel is a hotel in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. Opened in 2007, it incorporates the Annebrook House which dates from the early 1800s. Westmeath GAA use the hotel for games, including for the winning 2026 Leinster Senior Football Championship team.
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An Muileann gCearr is located in Leinster, Ireland, Europe. The coordinates are 53.5247 latitude, -7.3385 longitude.
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- Population
- 17,262
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Ireland
- Region
- Leinster
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
- Coordinates
- 53.5247, -7.3385
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
film location
Trim Castle, County Meath (Braveheart's York)
Ireland's largest Anglo-Norman castle doubled for the city of York in Braveheart, with the battles shot on the Curragh plain nearby.
36 km · about 40 min drive
restaurant
Sean's Bar
Pub on the west bank of the Shannon in Athlone trading since around 900 AD: Guinness World Records lists it as Ireland's oldest. Excavated wattle-and-daub walls and centuries of coins are displayed inside; sawdust still on the floor.
42 km · about 50 min drive
ancient ruins
Hill of Tara
The ceremonial seat of the High Kings of Ireland, a set of grassy earthworks with the Lia Fáil standing stone on top.
48 km · about 55 min drive
racetrack
Mondello Park
Ireland's only permanent motorsport circuit, located in County Kildare and the home of Irish national racing since 1968.
49 km · about 55 min drive
ancient ruins
Clonmacnoise
Monastic city founded by St Ciarán in 544 on an esker above a bend of the Shannon: two round towers, a cathedral, high crosses and hundreds of early Christian grave slabs. Once one of Europe's great centres of learning.
49 km · about 55 min drive
ancient ruins
Knowth
A great passage tomb in the Boyne Valley ringed by kerbstones carrying the largest collection of megalithic art in Europe.
59 km · about 70 min drive
ancient ruins
Newgrange
A 5,200-year-old passage tomb in Ireland's Boyne Valley, older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, famous for its winter solstice illumination of the inner chamber.
60 km · about 70 min drive
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- Petrol
- ~€1.78/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€2.10/100km
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April to October
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