Dublin Postal Districts

never looked in the back of the yeller pages?

Thanks for making me look like a complete wally. To be honest, I never saw the diagram (map isn’t quite the correct term) before in my life. But I imagine that for a lot of the city’s dwellers the diagram means a great deal.

I wonder what Ballyfermot did to deserve being isolated there, all by its lonesome. It reminds me a bit about Leitrim. When all the other counties were named, whatever was left over they called it Leitrim.

I also notice the agressive looking ‘spike’ shape of 6W, that was fought over tooth and nail. I wonder how many poor dwelling owners found themselves left out of the spike?

I didn’t realise either how large D4 is. It being so exclusive, you would expect it to be the little ‘island’ rather than Ballyfermot. Goes to show how little I know.

B.

There was actually a really neat one that I found back when we were moving to Dublin, where the areas were actually overlayed onto a proper street map, dead handy… It seems to have disappeared since, but I’ll keep looking. I guess if you’ve always lived in Dublin it’s probably not something you would need or even think about much…

A person replied at this thread here:

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=7628

With a link to an interesting video about the London Tube Map and its history.

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2009/london-underground-map-design-classic-p1.php

To me, that is the major difference between Dublin and London as cities. We are still waiting in Dublin for a time in which a ‘tube map’ is a major important diagram for understanding our city. But if I was to choose something in Dublin which came close in importance to the city dwellers, as a diagram, I would choose the postal map of Dublin. I think it defines how many of the residents think about the city. I may be wrong, but it seems quite important, in terms of rents etc. And not only rents on their own, but speed and ease of turnover of tenants etc.

What I wouldn’t mind seeing is the four local authority areas, overlaid on the the postal districts map. I saw the posters around Dublin City to get involved in the new development plan for Dublin city. I promised myself I would get some submission together for that at least, with some drawings. But in the end I didn’t. It would be cool if UCD What Now? workshops could integrate this study somehow into their work this summer.

Brian O’ Hanlon