How well do you know Dublin?
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You were probably able to see it out your penthouse window!
What’s the view on this kind of solid Edwardian fare? Centenary coming up next year, will it beat the wrecking ball? Should they slap five more storeys on top and get another hundred years out of it? Is it a Protected Structure, or should it be?
Of course it is, and of course it should be (though given the status of those houses on Pearse Street one would be forgiven for thinking otherwise).
Interesting and rare to see the typical sparse Dublin Georgian railing coming briefly back into use as part of the classical revival a century after it fell out of fashion.
Gunter: Do you need to ask the question? – for sheer nostalgia up there with The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers’ Society (mind you, look at the neighbour that got!).
PS Do they locate those awful lampposts in the most obtrusive place possible?No, I admit it is a bit obscure and was posted more as a curio, I mean there are actual cow sheds, the planning notice say “demolish cow sheds for blah blah blah apartments etc”. It is behind a terrace of houses, the old farm house, which I would guess as c.1800, has a run of late Victorian red bricks attached to it. The church with the pyramidal roof might be recognizable?
the only place i can think of is to the south/just inisde the Royal Canal near Brrombridge station in the Cabra area. otherwise no idea
Close: DCU and Ballymun are on the site of Albert College; it is Glasnevin though, it is on Ballymun road just north of Met Eireann, the church tower is the little protestant church beside the Bons, its pyramidal roof clearly the inspiration for both Met Eireann and Glasnevin Catholic church.
Harrumph.
Is it in the docklands? 😀
I went for a spin last night to check a few possible locations for your warehouse, but didn’t find it. I did come across these, however:
Thoughts?
A clue- this was my route:
Hold on a minute here. I refer you to the rules:
(section 37, paragraph 19):
‘A poster may not post a new pictorial challange until he, or another party, has correctly answered the existing challenge’, or,
Under sub-section 14, ‘admitted that he hasn’t a clue’
The warehouse (in the original question) is not in the docklands, but your strange directionless wanderings appear to have take you within spitting distance, at one point.
I was convinced the warehouse was the wool shed on spencer dock, but I went round and it wasn’t: did find a planning notice on it, a gym, as good a use as any. I wonder if they will remember it used to have a cupola before it was stabilized with a galvanized roof.
I am sure the 1897 building is close to were I am sitting (Westland Road) but can’t quite picture where I have seen it, is it the school behind Pearse Station?
@notjim wrote:
I was convinced the warehouse was the wool shed on spencer dock, but I went round and it wasn’t: did find a planning notice on it, a gym, as good a use as any. I wonder if they will remember it used to have a cupola before it was stabilized with a galvanized roof.
The Wool shed is a peach, but you’re right, it would have been the wrong answer.
You’re not allowed play with ctesiphon, he’s broken the rules.
Is it on Richmond Road?
PS Yesterday ctesiphon told us about taking a date to the AAI awards exhibition: rules mean nothing to someone like that.
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