"Afternoon Peat" This is a photograph of The Old Barracks in Cahersiveen, Co.Kerry, that I took in the afternoon as the peat fires where lit and the smoke eased its way across the town. The Barracks was constructed between 1870 and 1875 as an RIC Barracks in order to maintain law and order in Cahersiveen and to protect the telegraphic cable link between Europe and America which had been laid in 1866. It was designed by the architect, Enoch Trevor Owen in a Shloss style of architecture which was favored by Trevor Owen. The Barracks remained an important police station up to The Irish Civil War.
Photo: Marc Moller