Postcard
Collection object
1990.0223
H. 15 W. 10.5
Postcard, colour, glossy. White margin around picture; text in bottom margin reads, "Quin Abbey Co. Clare". View shows the abbey from the south-south-west with the access path to it running diagonally across the bottom half of the picture. Reverse printed in black; "SP228" at top left; at bottom left "Not far from Ennis, beside the village of Quin, is Quin Abbey./ This well-preserved ruin is of a Franciscan friary founded in 1402/ by Sioda MacNamara. Remains of a Norman castle on the site/ were used in the building", with, "Photography: Peter Zoller" below. Trade mark at centre top "Insight" followed by a triskele, both in white in a black rectangle, with "Ireland" below in black. Rectangular box for stamp at top right, five lines for address below. Bottom right, copyright sign followed by "Insight Cards Limited/ Crescent Road, Rogerstown, Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland/ Telephone 01-438844. Unposted and unused.
Insight Cards Ltd (published by)