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CÚL OF THE ROCK

West of the church, the two fine houses of Killard and
Knockdolian, dominate the skyline. Looking east, Duncairn and
Burlington, the two houses of Duncairn Terrace are clearly visible
beyond the railway embankment, as is J.C.McEntaggart’s; there
is no harbour as such that I can see and neither the Braemar
Hotel nor the Grand Hotel have yet been built, nor the houses in
between. But the two houses predating Carrig Eden, and the
tower, windows, and chimneys of the Coastguard Station are
there. It would be helpful if Derek Paine’s original postcard could
be re-scanned – what I have reproduced here is only a scan of
a scan – and it may be I have missed other tell-tale details. The
two-storey house on the distant skyline to the left of St Patrick's
Church, for instance, that at first I thought to be Malvern No.1
(1875), turns out when I checked Google Earth for sight-lines to
be Brooklands on Trafalgar Rd, a house that has been dated to
circa 1870.

What really threw me, however, was what I failed at first to

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