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A view of Turlough Round Tower and the adjoining church in County Mayo in about 1960.

An image of turf-gatherers carrying creels near Cashel, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1935.

A print titled (on the reverse): ‘Turf / Lunchtime on the bog / Turf workers on Clonsast bog, County Offaly’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell.

An image of men collecting turf in traditional creels. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Turf gatherers from the West of Ireland'.

An image of a turf gatherer. A typescript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Turf: one seventh of Ireland is covered with turf, varying from one or two feet to twenty feet in depth’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell, Dundrum, County Dublin.

An image of a turf-cutting competition at Allenwood in County Kildare. A typescript annotation on the reverse notes that the image was taken in June 1942.

An image of turf cutters at work. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Turf cutting in County Kildare’.

An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).

A view of men loading turf onto a small boat bound for the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Turf for Aran'.