Postcard, b/w glossy, landscape format, white margin around view. Title at bottom left of view, "The Village, Foynes". View from a height looking directly along main street, slightly left of centre, with railway to left of road and large building on hillside at right. Reverse printed in black "Post Card" at centre top with "Real Photo Production" up centre as divider; box for stamp partially obscured. Green two penny Eire definitive issue stamp at top right, showing outline map of Ireland under an arch. Circular cancellation "So[rd?] ?????chille/ 7 VII/ 55". Addressed to Mr & Mrs Burns, 4 Castle Crescent, Reading, Berks, Eng. from John ????; message having a good time. Pencil dealer's marks at top left "Limerick JJE" and top right of centre "£4.50".