Thoms Lookup Clonmore Road

[DudleyWinchurch]

Shane / eadaoin

If you're not too busy, I wonder if you could lookup:
C Mooney, 29 Clonmore Road, Mountjoy

I'm hoping to find out when he was a photographer from that address.

The street does not seem to have been there in 1862 but there was a Christopher Mooney at that address in 1911, but not listed on the census as a photographer.  Trying to identify a photograph that could have been much earlier (or later) than that.

[shanew147]

sorry - I dont see a Clonmore Rd. listed in 1863 Thoms

The modern Clonmore Rd, is a little bit away from Mountjoy Sq. (c 1km), and is in the Ballybough, Summerhill area

There very few Photographers - and no Mooney



Shane

[DudleyWinchurch]

Thanks Shane,

it was a really long-shot as I couldn't find the street in the on-line 1862 directory.  There is a house in that street up for sale.  I wonder if the agents know when it was built.

Mean-time, I guess I need some in-between directories.  Would the libraries in Dublin hold those?

I don't suppose anyone knows of anywhere in Belfast that I could find Dublin directories or the Dublin 1901 census or similar resources?  It will be a while before I get back to Dublin.

[sorry: meant to add that is is definitely the Clonmore Road in Ballybough (district Mountjoy on the 1911 census) ]

[shanew147]

I had a look at a Dublin 1885 map - and there's still no Clonmore Rd.

Some of my ancestors lived very close to this, in Ballybough, Foster Terrace and Charlesville ave.

I suspect the road was build after 1894 as it's not mentioned in an 1894 directory.

There are other Thoms available, it's still publishing today, depends on the library as to which ones may be available.


Shane

[DudleyWinchurch]

Thanks again Shane,

and for the list of photographers.

At least if the address did not exist before 1894 then that helps date the photo and it must be later than I thought.

PS I'm having enormous problems on RootsChat today but it seems to have just woken up again, ... or is it just me having problems?

[shanew147]

Really S L O W for me too


S.

[shanew147]

found two mentions of Clonmore Rd. that might help put a date on it..

Tue Oct 14, 1902

Houses and land for Sale

Attractive Investment - New Houses, Clonmore road;
 let at £ 23[unclear] and £32; sell, pay 8 per,
 cont. - Lynch and Egan Builders, 195 Great Brunswick street

Sat Oct 31, 1908

Executors Sale

  8 Clonmore Road
  close to both Clontarf....[unclear]
 

(Times)



Shane

[DudleyWinchurch]

That is interesting Shane,

as it more or less rules out the possibility of there being an older generation of the same family, previously at the same address, that might have been the photographer.

It's looking more likely that the 1911 Christopher, a lithographic printer, living with his brother, a bookbinder, was indeed the one who became a photographer.  And that dates the photo as post 1911.

[eadaoin]

i'm away at the moment - will have a look at 1922 and 1937 Thoms when I get back 28/29 April

eadaoin