The road to Newcastle Co. Down. Northern Ireland

Street in small country town, mainly 1-storey houses including, many thatched, church, square tower four spirelets, wooded and bare hill in background...The location of this photo was identified in a flash by derangedlemur ( /photos/8468254@N02/ ) as Newcastle Co. Down. Slieve Donard in the background was the big hint...Slieve Donard from Irish: Sliabh Dónairt, meaning "Dónairt's mountain") is an 850-metre (2,790 ft) mountain in County Down, Northern Ireland. Part of the Mourne Mountains, it is the highest peak in Northern Ireland and in the wider province of Ulster. ..Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton. .Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence. .Collection: The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000034077 ) . .Date: 1860 - 1883. .NLI Ref: STP_2248 ( vtls000565568 ) . .You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )