Postcard, black and white, glossy; white margin around; title in inset at centre bottom "Miltown Malbay". A lively street scene, taken from just below a cross roads, looking up the street to the church; below the cross at right, a car is parked next to the kerb with a man leaning into the roadside window to speak to the driver and a woman at the kerbside window, in front of the car two cows are partially cut by the bottom of frame; to left in centre of road a man standing, and five women/girls walking up the road to the cross; a bicycle is leant against the left kerb and a group of four or five are on the pavement outside two shops; at the cross two cyclists are coming out of the side street; above the cross are seven cars, only one moving up street, a cart and several pedestrians. Reverse printed in green; "Post Card/ Made in Ireland" at centre top; "Guaranteed Real Photograph" up centre as divider; "Produced by Cardall Ltd. Dublin" at centre bottom; "For Correspondence" to left of centre; "For address only" to right of centre. Purple 6d stamp at top right, Eire, affixed upside down; definitive issue showing a hand holding aloft a sword, inside an oval on a background of Celtic interlace. Circular post mark, not entirely legible reads "Sra???????Rach/ ????/ 2 VI/ 59" [Sraid na Cathrach-Miltown Malbay]. Addressed in blue, to Mrs Nellie McDowell, 240 Cypress Ave, Bronx, New York, from Marge Koll or Kolb, her niece; message spending a vacation in Ireland have met many people you knew when in Ireland, Ted Nestor, Jim McKenzie, and Jack Hines was buried last week. Line through address and in black below "No no./ U.S.A" presumably put on by postal service. Pencil dealer's marks "Clare" at top left "[pound sign]4" at bottom right of centre.
Considine and P.Flynn, names above shops.