Landscape, Nature and Architecture
Technological improvements enabled Prince Albert to collect photographs of places that were significant to him
'Muckross Abbey, Killarney'
c.1860Albumen print | 7.4 x 7.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2320101
Photograph of a view of the remains of the rectory and kitchen at Muckross Abbey, Killarney. The photograph is taken from the south-west. The damaged structure is covered with ivy to the extent the building is largely obscured. There are a small number of gravestones near the building. The foreground is dominated by ferns.
Creator(s)
Attributed to Frederick Holland Mares (photographer)
Attributed to James Simonton (photographer)
7.4 x 7.0 cm (image)
17.2 x 13.0 cm (mount)
- From an album compiled by Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ireland
- County Kerry [Ireland]
- Killarney [County Kerry]
- Muckross Abbey [Killarney]
- Killarney [County Kerry]
- County Kerry [Ireland]
- Ireland
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Abbeys
- Christian church architecture
- Churches
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Architecture
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Home economics
- The Home
- Kitchens
- The Home
- Home economics
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places