Christmas card interior: 'Tipperary Foxhounds at Cashel' caption and printed greeting with signatures
Book 1, Page 167
Transcription
The interior of a folded Christmas card laid open horizontally. The left leaf carries a small printed caption (lower left) identifying the photograph on the card’s front; the right leaf carries a printed greeting beneath a small running-fox vignette, with two handwritten signatures in blue ink at the foot.
Left leaf — printed caption
Tipperary Foxhounds at Cashel.
Photo by Courtesy Bord Failte.
The word “Cashel.” in the caption has been underlined in blue ink.
Right leaf — printed greeting and signatures
A small engraved running fox is printed at top centre.
With Best Wishes
for Christmas
and the New Year.
Below the printed greeting, two handwritten signatures in blue ink:
[Olive]
[Lucy F. Legrand]
AI Notes
Interior of a folded Christmas card mounted open on the album page. The left leaf carries a small printed caption identifying the photograph on the front of the card; the right leaf carries a printed greeting beneath a small running fox vignette, signed in blue ink with two names. Signatures examined at full crop resolution — both remain stylized and partly illegible; best-guess readings retained in brackets.
The Rock of Cashel (Co. Tipperary), seat of the kings of Munster from the 4th century and one of Ireland’s most prominent medieval ecclesiastical sites, is the background of the photograph. The Charleston FitzSimons line traces back through Dundalk, Co. Louth, where Christopher the emigrant’s father was Cashel FitzSimons — a given name, but possibly a placename-derived one; the underlining of “Cashel” in this album’s copy of the card may reflect the compiler’s attention to that coincidence.