Had hoped that this one would be a fiendishly difficult challenge, and so it proved!
This is from our Fergus O'Connor Collection, and all that we had on it was Post and telegraph office: exterior view in an unidentified, rural location. I asked if we could improve on this?
Yes, we could! See the comments below for dogged pursuit of an elusive location - almost certainly Adrigole in West Cork. More tentative is derangedlemur's suggestion that the gentleman in the photo above is Jeremiah Cronin, 28, teacher and husband of Hannah Cronin, 31, Post Mistress.
Most of our Fergus O'Connor Collection was taken in Cork, although Kerry, Wicklow, Antrim and Dublin also feature...
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