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CÚL OF THE ROCK

These ‘cottages’ are not to be confused with the earlier
coastguard dwellings of Kenmare Terrace which were erected by
John Doyle in 1843, but are in fact the individual residences in
what we knew in our time as ‘The Barracks’. A cursory scrutiny
of the chimney stacks, even today, will find two pairs of chimney
pots on each of the four stacks. Regardless of whichever year it
was, the significant building in the photograph is the three-bay,
two storey house immediately to the left of the bridge: Malvern
no.1, which I understand was built in 1875.

At first glance, it seemed that the two coast guard stores that
housed the Rocket apparatus in my time were not there. But a
closer scrutiny of the printed image in Derek’s book with a
magnifying glass reveals that they are; and that just might give
us a more proximate date for the photograph. Two letters in the
O.P.W. files in the National Archives may refer to the building of
the stores.

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