How well do you know Dublin?

hmmmm…..

A Todd Burns aka Pennys
E is Portobello College I reckon

A Jervis Street
B -NCH
C-Wilton Place
D – Corner D’Olier St
E – Portobella

A> Dental Hospital Lincoln Place
B> Morrison Chambers Dawson/Nassau St
C Ulster Bank 30-32 College Green
D Archers Garage
E Hotel / Potobello College

B – Government Buildings, Merrion Street?

okay i know have them all except b…. because i’m sure its not the nch, gov buildings, or morrison chambers, but its definitely 20th classicism…

B The hotel opposite the EBS building on Westmoreland street. I ‘ve taken that photo myself its magical:)

ahah…. the old Pearl Assurance building….

I’d guess that I is the chimney on the annex (for want of a better word) to no.1 Grafton Street (Provost’s House), i.e. the bit to the right of the house as you look at it from the street

is H on Thomas Street

H is a buiding on Liffey street, right?

This is good crack!
Yeah H is beside the Epicurean Food Hall on Lr. Liffey Street.
D is at the corner of Stepen’s Green and Dawson Street.
G is one of two bollards at the BoI House of Lords portico, College Gn.

Can’t get that F cupola thing! Is it out towards the D4 area somewhere?
The chimneys … God Graham, there must be a fair few of them around. Didn’t some Georgian houses receive decorative pots like that later on? – but you are hinting that they reflect the style of the building …

Ok I see now from rereading the first post that F must be within the canals … still flummoxed!

ahhh I was thinking D was top of Dawson Street alright…

That BoI bollard is actually a concrete replica Graham! – but the other of the two (on the Westmoreland St. side) is stone.

I won’t comment on these new pictures so as someone else can have a go.

Got a few of them – f is bothering me, thats a port crane in the background…

Ah yes, M = Custom House. I was taking photos of that door a few days ago.

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

Got a few of them – f is bothering me, thats a port crane in the background…

Is it the cupolla that was taken down from the wool store in part of the Spencer Dock scheme?

K looks very much like Stokes Place, that useful shortcut between St. Stephen’s Green and Harcourt Street.

@Thomond Park wrote:

Is it the cupolla that was taken down from the wool store in part of the Spencer Dock scheme?

Nope, that one was not nearly as nice or well maintained.

I can’t figure out which building it is in the docklands; the only explanation that springs to mind is that the photo has been taken from a tall building closer to the centre

K is Harcourt Square which is given away by the ‘Iveagh Court’ on Harcourt Road it does resemble both the Mater hospital and Stokes place, three horror stories

Coming back to A I am confused by what appears to be an overhanging tree and there are no trees at this location.

@Thomond Park wrote:

Coming back to A I am confused by what appears to be an overhanging tree and there are no trees at this location.

I was wondering about that too, the first time I saw the picture. I originally thought that it might be a building at the back of Kevin Street, Long Lane I think, where there are trees. Obviously it’s not, though looking at the drainpipes it’s hard to reconcile the small picture (A) with the complete one.

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

Got a few of them – f is bothering me, thats a port crane in the background…

Gotta be Pearse Street Garda Station 🙂

Is L the hideous Dr. Quirkey’s on O’Connell Street?

N – Clare Street

Is Q Tyrone House, the HQ of the Dept. of Education on Marlborough St.

O is Thomas Moore on College Green and Q is Tyrone House on Marlborough St.

yep i think so…

Is P an office building on the west side of Earlsfort Terrace, between Upper Hatch Street and Adelaide Road. I think that building is somewhere around there. I have a suspicion that J may be the Law Society in Blackhall Place.

Wrong on both counts – very wrong on the first.:o Well at least this thread is encouraging to put in a bit of cycling at the weekend:)

P is Fitzwilton house, and J is either The National Museum or National Library?

Is P on D’olier Street ?

An excellent game – My 2pence

P – DOlier St, Gas HQ by Fitzgerald
J – BoI Foster Place

It reminds me more of a gate lodge (or similar) that I’ve seen around somewhere, rather than one of the more imposing buildings in the city. The obvious one would be the gate lodge at the Lincoln Place entrance to TCD, but I think that was taken down some years back. Must have a look.

This is a superrb thread. Great idea. The pounds will fall off me this weekend!

That little bit of string around Thomas Moore’s neck. What’s it for? It looks like he’s wearing a hoody.

Quick question, Graham, about the unsolved location. Is that tree still there? I just had a hunch it might be one of the buildings on O’Connell Street.

Any chance of another clue:D

ok i’ll throw in a round or three… here’s my first selection….

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

I think 5 is the spire of Arbour Hill church.

6 – st audeons?

4 is the North Terminal at Dublin Airport.

Gotcha! No 7 annoyed me enough to look through the Buildings of Ireland section on Dame Street. I was close:

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/lord_edward_street/corporation.html

Interesting watercolours of Dublin street scenes by David Browne
http://www.molesworthgallery.com/Browne%20link%20page.html

4 – North Terminal Dublin Airport
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/collinstown/north_terminal.html

5- Arbour Hill Church
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/arbour_hill/arbourhill4_lge.html

6- St Audoens
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/high_street/st_audeons_portlester.html

7- A corpo building on Lord Edaward Street
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/lord_edward_street/corporation_centre_lge.html

any takes for 1,2,3?

1. New Ireland Dawson Street

2. (A Guess) Embassy House in Ballsbridge

3. Powerscourt South William Street

nope…

1 looks like it could have been that bit on the wall of the old Pelican House on Mespil Road. But that’s gone now, so has it been reassembled somewhere else?

think i agree with Seamus on number 1 – Pelican House ?
2; Microsoft in Sandyford ?

#1 was a trick question, it was the mosaic on the rear of Pelican House…
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/ballsbridge/mespil_road/pelican.html

#3 is the old Mercer Hospital
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/mercer_street/mercers_hospital.html

#2 looks very like the office block beside Herbert Park Hotel – but I’m not sure whether it has an internal corner like that or not…

#2

#8

#9

#10

#11

#11, is that in Smithfield?

I think #9 is on Green Street East, between Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Hanover Quay.

I was wondering about the mosaic on the Pelican House. I remember as a very small boy being at a pantomime in that building – given by staff of the Irish Life whose building it was at the time. There was a hall with what looked liked a purpose-built stage. I wonder was the mosaic there as a “backing” for the stage, i.e., to provide a window-free section in the building.

(between that and the lego, this is a real trip down memory lane):)

@Seamus O’G wrote:

I think #9 is on Green Street East, between Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Hanover Quay.

Nope, no. 9 is Spirt night club. Thats all thats left now of the old building. Not sure of the street name, that facade is off liffey street/abbey street.

Great Strand Street or more probably the street called Lotts (continuation of GSS)- one of those, eh? It rings a bell, alright.

Correct #9 is the back of a warehouse on the Lotts
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/abbey_street/lotts/spirit_rear.html

number 11 could be the church off hill street – is it St Georges?

Correct
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/hill_street/tower.html

…and unless i am mistaken Commerzbank house, guild street, ifsc is the modern office block at the top…

@dodger wrote:

…and unless i am mistaken Commerzbank house, guild street, ifsc is the modern office block at the top…

oh you’re good….

#8

#10

10 might be another trick question, if the plaque’s been moved, but is it (was it) Castle Street? One of the redbricks- can’t remember if it’s north or south side of the street though.

*tosses coin*

South side?

Correct ctesiphon – almost opposite the Civic Trust and Barnwells…

so any takers for no 8 or do you want the answer

Well I was looking in your excellent architectural archive as I thought it might have been in the zoo, and I came across the Garda Officers’ Club. I must go get my lotto ticket.:)

Correct…
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/phoenix_park/officers.html

I aim soon to buy a digital camera and figure out how it all works. I was wondering though, is it difficult to put pictures up on this forum, e.g., on this thread?

In the meantime, three non-visual questions with tenuous architectural connections::)

Which 3 Dublin streets have an Upper, Middle and Lower Section?

Which is the only pub in Dublin to run the entire length of a street?

Which is the only pub in Dublin which has an entrance on 3 different streets/roads?

Gardiner and Abbey streets both have Lower, Middle and Upper sections. Mountjoy Street used to have all three, but I think Upper and Lower are now just called Mountjoy Street.

edited to remove wierdness

@Seamus O’G wrote:

Which is the only pub in Dublin which has an entrance on 3 different streets/roads?

Hanlons on the NCR?

As far as I know, there is still a middle Mountjoy Street – I just did a google search and it came up with, e.g. , an Irish Times article about a property on the street in October ’05.

Hanlon’s it is indeed – doors on Old Cabra Road, North Circular Road and Annamoe Road.

@Seamus O’G wrote:

As far as I know, there is still a middle Mountjoy Street – I just did a google search and it came up with, e.g. , an Irish Times article about a property on the street in October ’05.

There is still a Middle Mountjoy Street.

At one point there was Lower, Middle and Upper Liffey Street

The other pub question has me racking my brains

Which is the only pub in Dublin to run the entire length of a street?

Bodkins on Yarnhall Street 🙂

So what’s the third street with a Lower, Middle and Upper?

@LOB wrote:

Which is the only pub in Dublin to run the entire length of a street?

Bodkins on Yarnhall Street 🙂

good call… should have figured that one myself

Bodkins it is – well known to many architects:)

@Andrew Duffy wrote:

So what’s the third street with a Lower, Middle and Upper?

Andrew, I think we’re going with Mountjoy, Gardiner and Abbey. I’m interested to hear from Phil that there used to be a Middle Liffey Street – I wonder was that the section between Abbey Street and Great Strand Street or was there a street through what is now the ILAC centre?

@Seamus O’G wrote:

Andrew, I think we’re going with Mountjoy, Gardiner and Abbey. I’m interested to hear from Phil that there used to be a Middle Liffey Street – I wonder was that the section between Abbey Street and Great Strand Street or was there a street through what is now the ILAC centre?

According to John Rocque’s 1756 map the street now referred to as Upper Liffey Street was called Middle Liffey Street and Upper Liffey Street ran up between Mary Street/Henry Street and Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), where the Ilac is. Does anyone know when it went? Was it there until the Ilac was built? Coles lane also ran parallel to this as far as what is now Parnell St, but is now the other entrance to the Ilac.

Middle Gardiner Street runs from Parnell St/Summerhill to Mounjoy Square

Here’s some easy ones..

1

2

3

4

5

6

@phil wrote:

According to John Rocque’s 1756 map the street now referred to as Upper Liffey Street was called Middle Liffey Street and Upper Liffey Street ran up between Mary Street/Henry Street and Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), where the Ilac is. Does anyone know when it went? Was it there until the Ilac was built? Coles lane also ran parallel to this as far as what is now Parnell St, but is now the other entrance to the Ilac.

Yeah I think Upper Liffey Street was snuffed out by the ILAC

6. 19-21 College Green also known as pen corner

Yup

Is 4 in the docklands? Hannover Quay or thereabouts?

I’m intrigued by 2.

Yeah 4 is hanover quay i reckon

Yer mans Gaff

Correct!

@Thomond Park wrote:

Yer mans Gaff

who lives there?

I know Harry Crosbie lives in the neighbourhood, but don’t know precisely where. Maybe TP was referring to him.

Is 2 also in the docklands vicinity? Something about the juxtaposition would suggest it.

It might be that warehouse that looks out over the Grand Canal basin, with one of the new buildings on Barrow Street behind it.

I reckon 5 is the Pepper Canister on Mount Street.

@Seamus O’G wrote:

I reckon 5 is the Pepper Canister on Mount Street.

Correct, well spotted.

@Seamus O’G wrote:

It might be that warehouse that looks out over the Grand Canal basin, with one of the new buildings on Barrow Street behind it.

Correctish. It’s acually boxed in by a new office development. You can no longer see it from the street or the basin.

You can access it by wandering down this hidden alleyway like I did.

Well done lads! 1 is indeed the RCSI.

Level TWO:

Here’s some easy ones..

1

2

3

4

5

6

Level THREE will really test your eye balls.

2 is on Beresford Place and its condition is a disgrace

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

Yeah I think Upper Liffey Street was snuffed out by the ILAC

Thanks Paul. Isn’t it amazing the way the Ilac swallowed up so much of that area?

4 is the oild habitat / galleria on the green

Is 1 the old Dolphin Hotel, now a courthouse? I’m finding it hard to reconcile the corner turret with the blocky building just visible along the left-hand edge, though…

Bruxelles on Harry St?

1. Bruxelles
2. Beresford Place
4. old Habitat
5. GPO arcade

Anyone want to have a go at 6 & 3? (put your hand down Graham!)

Is 3 an office building on Dame Street?

@jdivision wrote:

Is 3 an office building on Dame Street?

Nope.

3. is a fantastic example of external stonework;

is it in institutional or private use?

No.3 Abbey Wools buildings on Abbey Street?

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

No.3 Abbey Wools buildings on Abbey Street?

Correct.

Anyone get 6?

It’s bugging me – I know it or I think I should and I cannot nail it…

Royal Hospital chapel?

@Devin wrote:

Royal Hospital chapel?

Aye- that was in my head too. Certainly has that early classicism look to it, but the proportions look a bit slender.
Dr Steeven’s maybe? Dublin Castle? Long Library? And then I think it’s a side door of a church somewhere… The tablet behind the crest is most unusual.

Close Devin I think

Great Hall Entrance north Elevation of the Royal Hospital

Correct!

Has anyone else any pics they’d like to share?

I just remembered this old one (alas, another non-visual one):

What is the closest “Road” to O’Connell Street?

North Circular Road?

@Ciaran wrote:

North Circular Road?

Nope.

Phibsboro Road?

@phil wrote:

Phibsboro Road?

Nope.

Berkeley Rd. ??

Memorial Road (just before Matt Talbot bridge)?

Memorial Road?

Well done Cobalt and Frank – Memorial Road it is. If I recall correctly there’s not much in it between that and BTH ‘s suggestion Berkeley Road, but Memorial Road shades it.

this is probably too easy. . .

Killarney St

Yes.
😡

That’s a wonderful little portico, isn’t it? This description of it is from a 1997 Dublin Civic Trust ‘Buildings at Risk’ list:

This Doric-porticoed church front is one of the most distinguished examples of Greek revival in Ireland. It was built for a Presbyterian congregation to the design of a Scottish architect, circa 1830, with a small but monumentally-proportioned, four-columned Doric granite portico with extremely correct use of Grecian motifs. The portico is flanked by wings with severe tapering stone doorcases.

The status of the church (at the time) is given as:

The church had become redundant at the beginning of the 20th century, and was used for a number of years as a grain store. It became vacant in the 1980s and was gutted by fire, resulting in the loss of the original roof and the subsequent demolition of the main body of the church behind the entrance wall and portico. Failure to provide new flashings and cappings on the front wall and around the porico is resulting in serious water saturation affecting the stonework.

This looks like an old church . . .

Thats off Summerhill Parade. Is it called Hill Street? It terminated the street and was most likely originally a church. It seems alot of the parish churches of the north inner city have found new uses.

D – Mater?
A – Blessington Street?

C- Hainault House (69-71 St Stephen’s Green South).

A – Belvedere Place?

@Graham Hickey wrote:

Correct sir – though the address was optional 🙂

It’s the offices of the DTO- as a planner it’s my business to know. 😉

E has an air of the Moyne Institute on College Park in Trinity about it, but I can’t remember if the windows are round-headed or not right now.
F could be the little house behind Trinity’s walls on College Green?
G rings a bell- is that its entrance front or its garden front?:)

As I once heard a resident of some Brutalist London tower block say, part of the beauty of living in the building was not having to see it from outside.
When I worked in No. 51 St Stephen’s Green a few years ago, my boss had a top floor window overlooking the park- very envious I was.

Just uploading some pictures from today, and I thought I’d put one here. Any thoughts? If not the exact lamppost, then the place from which the picture was taken, perhaps?

Spot on- damn you, Hickey!:)

The James Joyce House is fantastic- it was my first time in it. If anyone hasn’t yet gone, go soon before the work is completed. It’s amazing to see it in a state of semi-undress.

Another view from the top floor of the Joyce House on Usher’s Island, showing the same lamppost (this one’s not a test:) ):

Is this the only distinctively sloped Georgian street in Dublin aside from North Great George’s St?

🙂 It was the slope that made me think of it straight off, so I admit I was chancing my arm! I’ve cycled up it many times. I suppose it also doesn’t look quite as polished now as North Great George’s St does.

Is ‘G’ the rear of the kielys on middle abbey street?

I’m also wondering about G.

At the very top of the picture is a building with an extended skylight of sorts – I’m sure there’s a proper term for it – an elevated section of the roof which is made up almost entirely of windows. Stack A style.

I seem to remember seeing something like that around the Earlsfort Terrace / Hatch Street area. Can’t place it though. But it might put the doll’s house around that area.

It is on middle abbey street..I recognise the streetlamp attached to the building. Only used on Abbey Street. Is it the Hotel Capri?

its Kielys I think

is F the carmelite church on Aungier Street?

The carmelite church is rendered with some exposed calp to the rear not cut stone;

is F the Pidgeon House?

B is the Archbishop Plunket monument on Kildare Place

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

its Kielys I think

Yeah it is. It’s the old entrance facade.

Is it Government Buildings? Small mess halls to the side.

I like the composition of that Plunkett photo.

Is F the Westmorland / College St. side of Trinity ?

Kings Inns

Tyrone House? Or the RDS?

Has Newman House been suggested yet?!

Sorry to barge in lads, if I don’t post these now I won’t have the time later!

a

b

c

d

e

f

Is F McKee Barracks on Blackhorse Avenue ?

A

The Old Jameson Distillery

@Thomond Park wrote:

A

The Old Jameson Distillery

Ceart agat. Maith an fear.

@DOC wrote:

Is F McKee Barracks on Blackhorse Avenue ?

*buzz* Nope..

Is D the AIB Bank on the Quays. Arran quay i believe. Beside St. Paul’s church.

nahh bren, here’s that bank – no dormers
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/quays/arran/alliedirishbanks_lge.html

C is the fountain on the north side of Customs House. Commemorates the Dublin Fire Brigade and is finally back up and running again.

Is F in the first set of pics (Mr Hickeys collection) the Gate Theatre perchance

@Graham Hickey wrote:

Is E on the corner of College Green and Trinity Street?

B is of course the Provost’s House.

Is F the former Richmond Hospital/Dublin Metropolitan Courts? Doesn’t seem to be any of the Iveagh Buildings…

E – correct
B – correct
F – incorrect

@Bren88 wrote:

Is D the AIB Bank on the Quays. Arran quay i believe. Beside St. Paul’s church.

No

@StephenC wrote:

C is the fountain on the north side of Customs House. Commemorates the Dublin Fire Brigade and is finally back up and running again.

Yes!

@Thomond Park wrote:

A

The Old Jameson Distillery

So just D and F remaining.

d

f

I assure you that F is one single building.

Is F the building, recently restored opposite Pearse Sq, I’m in Milan so can’t verify the exact address. It was a school I believe, now a Community Centre.

@lunasa wrote:

Is F the building, recently restored opposite Pearse Sq, I’m in Milan so can’t verify the exact address. It was a school I believe, now a Community Centre.

It’s not, sorry. 🙁

F – McKee Barracks ???

sorry just saw that somebody already said that …

are you sure its not the old hospital now court complex on north brunswick street

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

are you sure its not the old hospital now court complex on north brunswick street

It certainly isn’t.

Is it time for clues? D & F are both south facing..

Maybe F is that red CIE building on North Wall Quay, just at the edge of the Spencer Dock development?

Great to see that building on the corner of Trinity Street and College Green taking its place on this thread. It’s one of my favourites. Viewed from the top of Anglesea Street it just seems to fit into that corner slot so perfectly.:)

Seems to be the former hotel on North wall Quay
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/quays/north_wall/british_rail_hotel_lge.html

Is D the Royal Irish Academy (or somesuch) on Molesworth Street.

F: The Royal Victoria Hospital? Otherwise known as the ioneer.

Dammit… Double posting…Ah well it is my 100 posting, so maybe such is okay 🙂

@LOB wrote:

Seems to be the former hotel on North wall Quay
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/quays/north_wall/british_rail_hotel_lge.html

Yep..Thats F…Well spotted….If you look at the distinctive chimneys, you could say that it all appears to, eh, “stack up” 😮

I think D is Number 2 Eden Quay.

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/quays/eden/2_lge.html

I also agree about F. Well spotted Seamus and LOB, and thanks for the testing images Morlan.

Hmmmmmm.

This building is setting some kind of a record on this thread.

I liked the Pigeon House suggestion earlier. It has that delapidated look and a broken window which would have fitted in.

Not to be.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

@Seamus O’G wrote:

Hmmmmmm.

This building is setting some kind of a record on this thread.

Yeah it must be… i dont suppose it could be any of the buildings in around the Kings Inns? just that bit too early I suppose:( ….Go on Graham, give us another clue 🙂

is on the NCR ? toward the port ? , just a wild guess.

Broadstone?

This has been bugging me for ages

Aldborough House, Portland Row?

ooohhh good guess

If it is Aldborough House, I see a planning permission was lodged earlier this month to convert it into a 40 bedroom ”Day Hospital Medical Care Facility”.
details/drawings here
http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=2569/06&backURL=Search%20Criteria%20>%20<a%20href='wphappsearchres.displayResultsURL?ResultID=266613%26StartIndex=1%26SortOrder=APNID:asc%26DispResultsAs=WPHAPPSEARCHRES%26BackURL=Search%20Criteria‘>Search%20Results

If you look under view documents there are some scanned drawings

Is it Marino? Not as in the Casino, but is there another dwelling within its grounds that this could be? I am guessing here, and only really going on Grahams clues.

@LOB wrote:

If it is Aldborough House, I see a planning permission was lodged earlier this month to convert it into a 40 bedroom ”Day Hospital Medical Care Facility”.
details/drawings here
http://www.dublincity.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=2569/06&backURL=Search%20Criteria%20>%20<a%20href='wphappsearchres.displayResultsURL?ResultID=266613%26StartIndex=1%26SortOrder=APNID:asc%26DispResultsAs=WPHAPPSEARCHRES%26BackURL=Search%20Criteria‘>Search%20Results

If you look under view documents there are some scanned drawings

damn , that was to be my dublin gaff. it is a bit selfish to expect me to get sick to stay there, frankly.

Never heard of it, mate.;)

It is tucked in behind the five lamps as the image displays behind a high wall

@ConK wrote:

This looks like an old church . . .

I believe that’s at the top of Langrishe Place off Summerhill.:confused:

Langrishe Place, Yes. . . . but someone got it right on the last page.

Is Langrishe Place the narrow street that has some really attractive tall red bricks that were in very poor condition a couple of years back?

@ConK wrote:

Langrishe Place, Yes. . . . but someone got it right on the last page.

Sorry. 🙁 But I saw only a guess at it being in Hill St, which is about a 1/4th of a mile away from Langrishe Place. 🙂

@Thomond Park wrote:

Is Langrishe Place the narrow street that has some really attractive tall red bricks that were in very poor condition a couple of years back?

As I remember Langrishe Place it had 2 story houses on both sides. If you go into Summerhill from Parnell St it would be the first turn on the left.

At least thats how I remember it. As a kid, nearly 50 years ago, my pals and I used to race our ‘trollies’ down the hill of Langrishe Place and into Summerhill. 🙂

Just to remain on topic I’ll post a pic very soon. 😉 I like this topic. 🙂

A is Phisborough Church – St Peters (???)

stopcheatingbyrightclick.jpg. i love it.

D is roches stores on henry street. dont post one like this again , i have been tearing my hair out for an hour! not fair.:) 🙂 🙂

B is Connaught House on Burlington Road

D is a fairly comon pendant lamp.

A St Peters???

B BOI on Mespill Rd

D Habitat or equivalent?

D is the lamp shade hanging in the long window of roches store (where the chocolat shop is)

Is C on Dame Street, near City Hall?

@Graham Hickey wrote:

Nope, though I see where you’re coming from.
A certain something peeking through the balustrade may give it away…

Grrr … Ive been wrecking my head trying to figure out that grid-looking yoke in the background… Tis doing my head in…Maybe its not in Dublin at all but in Hedrek City 😀

Anyway throwing my toss at E,what say the Four Courts – left corner of the central block?

Is C the church on the quays, next to Bank of Ireland (I think) with an office building in Smithfield behind it. Hutton put it into my head by mentioning the grid thing behind it.

is there a side of the GPO in there somewhere?

I think C is the the south east corner of the the Custom House with part of Busaras in the background?

Is E Bank of Ireland on College Green?

well done phil….. i’m certain that you’re correct

@Graham Hickey wrote:

Thats one of the statues on the Former House of Parliment. From the house of lords portico on the east side.

I think that building is on the corner of Lower Abbey Street and O’Connell Street (North East Corner)

@phil wrote:

I think that building is on the corner of Lower Abbey Street and O’Connell Street (North East Corner)

No confirmation yet. Could this still be outstanding?

Focus

you ironic man the Merchants Quay project is the first and the Church on Merchants Quay the second

I don’t know about the first one, but I think that the second one is the Morrison Chambers on the corner of Nassau Street and Dawson Street (Easons)

I think E is the very low railway bridge on Grand Canal Quay. Just beside that nice glass ESAT building.

D is the floating thingies beside Sean O’Casey Bridge…..with a full-to-the-brim seagull eyeing the balustrade of the Boardwalk.

Hmmm C is on Dame Street I think, or is it in Trinity College

Rofl 😀 ; Thats a stoic looking seagull, but what has that got to do with arch? That said, I think Seamus is on the right track –

@Seamus O’G wrote:

I think E is the very low railway bridge on Grand Canal Quay. Just beside that nice glass ESAT building.

@Graham Hickey wrote:

Might as well do these three then, but that’s it..

Cant be it, is it? Tis too much fun 🙁

Is C one of the buildings on the bottom part of Grafton Street? The one with Specsavers in it?

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/grafton_street/specsavers.html

@hutton wrote:

That said, I think Seamus is on the right track

Or is it the bridge just off Pearse Street? Sandwith Street, I think.

@hutton wrote:

Cant be it, is it? Tis too much fun 🙁

Well I guess it’s up to the rest of us to muck in then, eh?:)

is E the underpass under harold’s cross bridge?

@ctesiphon wrote:

Or is it the bridge just off Pearse Street? Sandwith Street, I think.

That may be more likely. I think there are more tracks on the bridge at that point so the bridge would probably be wider, which could explain the darkness over the left hand side of the picture. Unfortunately I am not in Dublin at the moment, ‘cos I’d love to go down and see.

@Sue wrote:

is E the underpass under harold’s cross bridge?

Hmmm, hadn’t thought of either of the canals. Though for some reason it reminds me of some tales that have been related to me of the Liffey swim. Due to the handicapping system, the swimmers all start to bunch up coming up to O’Connell Bridge. As a result of this, and the massive width of the bridge, you get a whole heap of swimmers swimming under the bridge in almost complete darkness. Quite an experience, I’m told.

Come to think of it, maybe it could be the underside of one of the Liffey bridges. But how would you take such a photo, except from our new bateau mouche.

Or maybe Graham Hickey is a boating man himself?

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

Ohh, we posted at the same time 🙂 Plenty for them to chew on anyway,

Is that your RX8 parked under the bridge?

H isn’t nearish to the liberties, is it?

I think C is the former ICS building between D’Olier Street and Westmorland Street, and I think G is the Buger King on Lower O’Connell Street!

Is B Morans Hotel on Gardiner Street?

@phil wrote:

I think C is the former ICS building between D’Olier Street and Westmorland Street,

Yup – 1916 parade

@ctesiphon wrote:

Is F the Temple Bar Gallery and Studio?!

🙁

@phil wrote:

I think G is the Buger King on Lower O’Connell Street!

😀

@Graham Hickey wrote:

South Great George’s St perhaps?

It looks like it belongs there, but no.

E is the entrance to the Seamen’s Institute on Eden Quay.

Good work

F is the ESB building on Misery Hill (with the chimney with the “Grand Canal Harbour” banner just peeking through?)

How about Exchequer St for B ? 🙂

Is F the library extension at Trinity College?

@d_d_dallas wrote:

F is the ESB building on Misery Hill (with the chimney with the “Grand Canal Harbour” banner just peeking through?)

Bingo

@hutton wrote:

How about Exchequer St for B ? 🙂

Incredibly loud buzzer

@hutton wrote:

How about Exchequer St for B ? 🙂

Clue: It’s a hotel

Is it the Hotel above Hogans on SGSt?

Is “A” Broadstone Station

@StephenC wrote:

Is it the Hotel above Hogans on SGSt? Is “A” Broadstone Station

Re A, thats what I was thinking – Central Hotel on corner of Exchequer St – but Morlan says its not on SG St….Re B, I dont think its Broadstone as thats all Greek Revival, and this emblem is 2nd millenium classicism – what say the side of Heuston Station instead ? 😉

It could also be that kippy guesthouse on the corner of Gardiner Street and Talbot Street (the name escapes me)

Three out of Morlan‘s seven still look to be outstanding.

We’re losing it lads.:p

@StephenC wrote:

Is it the Hotel above Hogans on SGSt?

Is “A” Broadstone Station

No. But you’re close enough – think rail. Absolutely nay cigar though 🙁

Cant believe I described Broadstone as Greek Revival; it is of course Egyptian Revival – so 😮 😮 to me!

Hey Morlan, what say Jimmys place on Amiens St for A…Choo, choo, choo 🙂

B is really doing my head in at this stage. I think SoG is right – but its worse than he says; 4 outstanding, not 3! We are losing it :confused: 😡 🙁 …But dont give away the game just yet, I know well get there eventually –

As for G is it on hoarding around a site under construction? Come on give us a clue;)

Oh. Good photo.

But, just as a matter of interest, from which car park was the original taken?

One would imagine it must have been either from the RCSI or St. Stephen’s Green Car Park.

Or could it even be Drury Street?

Nothing would now surprise me.:D

Hutton – G has already been answered. It’s Burger King on O’C St!

Well done Graham. It’s the Stephen’s Green SC car park.

OK, B is The Clifton Court Hotel/Met Bar on Eden Quay

The red brick is typicaly Georges St/Exchq St. I knew it would throw yez off.

And here’s a little more of A….

Common!

Feck, feck, feck. I would never have got that; with the string coursing band, Id have expected it to continue – and so too a floor at that level.

A obviously isnt Connolly; so there too I am wrong:(

And as you say G was got already. Maybe the blind (ie me who sould have seen that mentioned already) shouldnt be playing this game

*puts on coat, gets up and goes home – head hanging in shame* 🙁 😮 🙁

@Morlan wrote:

think rail.

I know, it’s that redbrick building on Railway Street with the nice windows. And that grey thing on the roof.:D

Seriously though, Morlan, should we be looking at locations in or around the Pearse Street/Westland Row area?:o

I think it is the Irish Rail Freight Offices beside Spencer Dock. It only dawned on me when you said rail and I saw the red brick.

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/quays/north_wall/cie_freightoffice.html

Well done Philip. 🙂

I am sure Graham and Morlan have got fed up with being the only ones contributing to this, so I thought I would try to upload a few very easy ones for people to have a go at.

A:

B:

C:

D:

bites tongue…. must dig out a few for the next round

Is A Heuston Station?

C Iveagh Market????

D Pepper Canister from Herbert Place

Here’s a stab in the dark…

A – Pearse St Station
B – An Iveagh Trust building
C – Pepper Cannister
D – Civic Offices Wood Quay

A – Pearse St Station (Westland Row)
B – Dublin City Fruit Markets
C – St Stephens Church (Pepper Canister)
D – National Gallery

A few more? Why not. These are just oldies from the archive (all within the canal ring)- I’m planning something far more dastardly if the opportunity to snap it presents itself.

1:

2:

3:

4:

Graham- any chance you could give everyone else a head start of, say, 24 hours?:)

Well done LOB. You got them all in one. Apart of course from Pearse St Station, because that doesn’t exist :D.

Graham, Is F the railings on the North of Parnell Square and G that red brick office block on Lincoln Place where the Turkish Baths used to be?

F is the railing of the Rotunda on Parnell Square South, the northside railing are blue.

G – I agree with Lincoln Place

H is on Talbot Street, just up towards Marlborough Street. Theres a lot of desperately-in-need-of-paint jobs along this street.

Is No 2 the arches of The Vaults bar under Connolly

Is No 3 around Bridgefoot Street?

Is G the Elan building on Lincoln Place – opposite Trinity Gates

Stephen (and others)-

Agreed on F, G and H.

But 2 and 3- alas, no.

@ctesiphon wrote:

Stephen (and others)-

Agreed on F, G and H.

But 2 and 3- alas, no.

I think 2 is chq basement but if not it could be the cafe under Grand Canal Dock dart station. Is 3 somewhere in Ranelagh or maybe on the Richmond Road. Tip of the tongue but can’t remember it. Number 4 I think is off Cork St and was linked to a timber merchant

@jdivision wrote:

I think 2 is chq basement

Spot on. I thought this one might be trickier, damn you!:)

@jdivision wrote:

Is 3 somewhere in Ranelagh or maybe on the Richmond Road.

Neither.

@jdivision wrote:

Number 4 I think is off Cork St and was linked to a timber merchant

You’re probably right, though the timber merchant business is news to me. I’ll leave it open in case anyone else has a more accurate (not more correct, just more accurate;) ) guess.

@ctesiphon wrote:

Spot on. I thought this one might be trickier, damn you!:)

I was in it before the work started in earnest a few years ago so recognised it from that. Otherwise I think we could have been here a while. 🙂

A lot of outstanding pictures outstanding here, from two contributors.

I wonder if 3 mightn’t be in or around Grand Parade or Northbrook Road? It does have the feel of an old railway bridge, for some reason. Maybe too “Ranelagh” though, which has already been discounted.

3 is Longford Street isn’t it

@Rory W wrote:

3 is Longford Street isn’t it

Yup.

Is cstephion’s No 1 just off Wilton Place and is the other one the IIB HQ

1 also reminds me a bit of Loftus Lane, at the back of the whole cinema (Virgin/UGC) complex on Parnell Street. Unlikely to be, though, if it’s been placed in the 1950’s by Graham H, who knows considerably more than me. (And at a much tenderer age, too.:D )

@ctesiphon wrote:

Eh, Dolce & Gabbana? … Champion Sports?

Yesss!!! I finally thwarted GrahamH.!:) (Sorry- I’m sure you understand.)

@Seamus O’G wrote:

1 also reminds me a bit of Loftus Lane, at the back of the whole cinema (Virgin/UGC) complex on Parnell Street. Unlikely to be, though, if it’s been placed in the 1950’s by Graham H, who knows considerably more than me. (And at a much tenderer age, too.:D )

Oh he makes a good argument alright, but trust your instinct on the dating front, Seamus. Maybe not as late as Virgin, but it’s not as early as the 1950s either. Not Wilton Place either, I’m afraid, jd.

Re the warehouse- I’ll come clean. It’s opposite Grey’s pub on the corner of Ardee Street and Newmarket in the Coombe. It’d be cruel to withhold any more- you were close enough, GH and jd.

PS Graham- fwiw, I’m thwarted by your outstanding one too. I’m presuming it’s a corner seen from under some eaves, but I’m not even sure of that.

Oh I’d be wary of using words like ‘certainly’, if I were you. Seamus might start to lose faith in you.:D

You’re right about the brick to the first floor- one of the reasons why I posted this shot. It does set it apart a bit from many other buildings it might otherwise be confused with. Flagship? Not really. Commercial? Yes, but maybe not in the traditional sense. Also, notice the lack of windows…?;)

And it’s southside (within the canals) but that’s all I’m giving you.

Okay- one more hint (it’s only fair, I think): the building is nothing special, but it’s in a great location deserving of something far better than this anonymous edifice.

The unsolved photo from GrahamH….

Every time I look at it I see the underside of the roof of the Lansdowne Road West Stand, with the (relatively) new TV box on the right hand side of the photo. As it might be seen from the southbound platform at Lansdowne Road DART station, or out on Lansdowne Road itself (Dodder side of the railway).

Yet I think the front of the roof of the stand is “straight” rather than, as shown in the photo, with regular protrusions. Plus it’s outside the canals. I’m sure the whole idea is crazy.

A clue, perhaps.:)

Croke Park?

Hmm….near a rugby pitch.

Could it be the loading bay for the Samuel Beckett theatre in Trinity – where all the backdrops and so forth are delivered. Somewhere around there.

@GrahamH wrote:

So only ctesiphon’s No1:

this one is really starting to bug me – i know i know it, I just cannot pull it out of the recesses of my mind

Is No.1 DIT Cathal Brugha Street?

Or possibly the little church opposite?

@GrahamH wrote:

oooh we’re getting close…

Hmm.

Another guess, from a location unfortunately too far away to check it out in person before posting.

The Luce sports hall in TCD on the right of the photo, the railway bridge in the top left hand corner.

Seamus- I think you might be onto something with that guess.

DOC- Sorry, neither DIT nor the church.

Paul- sorry for the torture. 🙂

Another hint? It’s very close to one of the other buildings featured over the last couple of pages. If one were to visit each of those, the location of this would be immediately apparent.

Ctesiphon – your one is south of the river, between the canal and the river. At this rate, it’s looking like we may need to find out if it’s D2 or D8.:o

Isn’t “The Wall” the one on the lane down at the back of Guinesses, near their Enterprise Centre?
KB2

could be – for some reason i’m sure its in d8 but that’s all i can pull out of my head…

Sorry KB2- not Guinnessland. Though not a million miles away either.

Paul/Seamus- it’s D8.

@Ctesiphon wrote:

Flagship? Not really. Commercial? Yes, but maybe not in the traditional sense. Also, notice the lack of windows…?

@Ctesiphon wrote:

Another hint? It’s very close to one of the other buildings featured over the last couple of pages. If one were to visit each of those, the location of this would be immediately apparent.

@Ctesiphon wrote:

Sorry KB2- not Guinnessland. Though not a million miles away either

@Ctesiphon wrote:

it’s D8

From a stumped Sherlock Holmes: The car park at the back of the statoil garage on Ussher’s Quay.

😀

I’m a frayed knot.:)

Contrary to what some might think, I’m not revelling in anyone’s frustration. I’m dying for someone to get it. If anyone’s desperate for a sound night’s sleep, pm me and I can put you out of your misery.

Also, I’ve been tinkering with some crossword-style clues, if anyone’s interested?:o

is it around aungier street dit

scrub that aungier street is still d2

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

scrub that aungier street is still d2

It is, but I think adjoining streets like Bishop Street (for example) are D8.

@GrahamH wrote:

Go on then – do your worst 🙂

My worst, you say?

When the Dominicans look in the mirror, they will know their place. (8)
You might feed your sheep here, as long as they aren’t white, or black. (5)
Don’t rely on Fergus to meet you at the races. (9)
By itself. (6)

I’m not sure if this’ll make things better or worse. I feel apologies in advance might be in order.

[quote=”
ctesiphon”:1aqfgnv0]
When the Dominicans look in the mirror, they will know their place. (8)
You might feed your sheep here, as long as they aren’t white, or black. (5)
Don’t rely on Fergus to meet you at the races. (9)
By itself. (6)

Oh great! Crossword clues! I love crosswords! I love crossword clues! I hope he’s going to have some for us who do the simplex! l’m so ‘xcited!

:p

My colleague, who has considerably more crossword experience than I, has suggested that the third clue needs revision. Also, he thinks I shoud clarify that the four words for a (sort of) sentence – something like ‘Baggot Street beside hospital’ or ‘bridge with stone arches’ – that gives the location of the building but not its name. Lastly, he thinks the first clue is a stinker, but I’m not changing it.:)

So the revised clue for word three is:

Here, on Fergus, I’ll buy and sell you at the races. (9)

If I have time before these clues are guessed, I’ll try to do up a little crossword and scan it in.

@ctesiphon wrote:

So the revised clue for word three is:

Here, on Fergus, I’ll buy and sell you at the races. (9)

So, it must be somewhere in “Newmarket”. Or near there.

the second word must be Green.

I wonder does the first word have something to do with the opposite of dominiks’s place as ‘refelected’ in theliffey – this would be close to Newmarket. Though i can’t think of an eight letter word to fit this.

@Seamus O’G wrote:

So, it must be somewhere in “Newmarket”. Or near there.

Ding ding ding!!! Go to the head of the class, Seamus. 🙂

But the second word’s not ‘green’, dodger. And you’re way closer to the first word than you might realise.

I’ll leave it open for now- the full ‘sentence’ is worth working out, I think.

Em, if there’s anybody out there who hasn’t yet started this Saturday’s version of “The Listener” crossword in The Times, could they give us a hand here.

([whisper]Graham, just while we’re waiting for further clues, was your last photo actually the Luce Sports Hall and the railway track, or should we keep thinking[/whisper]);)

@ctesiphon wrote:

When the Dominicans look in the mirror, they will know their place. (8)
You might feed your sheep here, as long as they aren’t white, or black. (5)
Here, on Fergus, I’ll buy and sell you at the races. (9)
By itself. (6)

In order, they form a sentence that gives the location:

Opposite
Gray’s
Newmarket
Square

Semi-industrial comes closest, Graham. It’s the Beverly Records Management warehouse on Newmarket.

Sweet dreams, one and all.:)

The full shot. Note the gracefully curving tyre marks in the foreground from the local boyos.

The corner of the building (left). The epitome of ‘the decorated shed’?

The derelict warehouse nearby (re previous clue), and the corner of Gray’s pub (right).

I knew I knew it – I used to shortcut through Newmarket from Thomas Street on my way to the SCR

Thank you, ctesiphon, for putting us out of our misery.

That must have taken over from Aldborough House as the longest unsolved building in this great thread. And it wasn’t actually solved in the end.:o

Obviously we need to work on our knowledge of Dublin 8.:)

Graham, for some reason I think your unsolved image is The Museum Building in Trinity, with the Berkeley beyond it, but I cannot figure out from what angle it is taken. This of course leads me to believe that it is not it, but I decided to give it a shot anyway.

Seamus et al-
My vanity is encouraging me to ask whether the crossword clues made sense, or if they’re as baffling as ever, i.e. did you work out why the Dominicans led to ‘opposite’, for example?

Graham-
Don’t think the stone is Portland, though I’m pretty sure it is stone rather than concrete. I think they were purpose built as warehouses, possibly even for the company that currently occupies them today. I lived in the area a few years ago and I was struck by the ‘facadist’ nature of the buildings, as though the local authority had said ‘You can build bland boxes, but for heaven’s sake put a nice front on them!’ (I’d still lean towards a date no earlier than mid-1980s or so.:) )

Newmarket is a strange place- it reminds me of parts of Edinburgh. I suppose this is mainly because its name recalls the Grassmarket and Haymarket, but also slightly because of its spatial quality. Maybe hard to see when it’s surrounded by crud such as the above and poxy tax-break apartments, but if you squint hard enough… This is why I said it was a dull building ill-befitting the location; I’d love to see Newmarket developed as a proper open space in the heart of the old city instead of being left to the boy-racers to practice their handbrake turns at 3 in the morning (though its openness is one of its best qualities- wouldn’t want it to be cluttered with street furniture junk and inappropriate vegetation). There’s a promising new development at the western end on the way (mentioned in a thread a while back on new Coombe developments), but I don’t know if there are any plans for the square itself. Interestingly, the square isn’t that old. The Edinburgh echoes led me to think it must have been an actual historic market square, but I heard somewhere that it was only laid out like that in the late 19th century or so. Must chase up the facts on it. Anyone know?

@ctesiphon wrote:

My vanity is encouraging me to ask whether the crossword clues made sense, or if they’re as baffling as ever, i.e. did you work out why the Dominicans led to ‘opposite’, for example?

Well it always easier to “see” the answer to the clues when you’ve seen it…:o

@ctesiphon wrote:

When the Dominicans look in the mirror, they will know their place. (8)
You might feed your sheep here, as long as they aren’t white, or black. (5)
Here, on Fergus, I’ll buy and sell you at the races. (9)
By itself. (6)

By and large, they’re good clues. I’m still not sure about #2, and #1 may need a bit of brushing up, in the unlikely event that you’ll be using it again!

I think #4 was an excellent clue. Would absolutely not be out of place in any of the great crosswords. #3 perhaps was perhaps overstating the whole market thing – Newmarket-on-Fergus, buy and sell, the races (Newmarket). It might be better here to have divided the clue into two parts. One part could be used to generate the words “New” and “Market”, and the second part might be “at the races” or something which would lead us to think of “Newmarket”. As it stands, the word “New” would not, I think, be generated by any of the words in the current clue. Now, what such a clue would be, I really am not able to say.

My quibble with #1 is that if the Dominicans were to look in the mirror, which has been identified by a couple of posters as the river Liffey, they would see somewhere like Aungier Street or South Great George’s Street, I would think. That’s assuming that you are talking about the Dominicans in the Friary on Dominick Street/Dorset Street. It might have been better in this case to consider the Capuchins, whose headquarters is on Halston Street but whose larger Church is the one on Church Street. Looking from there into the “mirror” would bring you much closer to the location of this warehouse. Unless of course the Dominicans were to look in the mirror at an angle, rather than along the more obvious north-south axis. Hmmm.

I’m afraid I still don’t get the sheep connection in #2.

And some of the above points may well be put down to the ungraciousness of the defeated:D

Thanks for putting up the photos and the clues. Oh yeah, and the answer.:) That last photo kept me and it looks like several others entertained and puzzled for a long time.

How about:

Fresh location for buying and selling, or for horse racing.

?

@ctesiphon wrote:

When the Dominicans look in the mirror, they will know their place. (8)
You might feed your sheep here, as long as they aren’t white, or black. (5)
Here, on Fergus, I’ll buy and sell you at the races. (9)
By itself. (6)

Thanks Seamus. Too kind.:)

1) Dominicans = Order of Preachers = OP]opposite[/I].

2) Feed sheep = graze; Aren’t black, or white = grey: So Gray’s.

3) We know.

4) (For the others, Seamus): when you multiply a number by itself you get its Square.

@ctesiphon wrote:

1) Dominicans = Order of Preachers = OP]opposite[/I].

Oooooh, very good. I didn’t know they were the Order of Preachers. Completely distracted by the Dominicans on Dominic Street. You were right not to change the clue under duress from your colleague.

2) Feed sheep = graze; Aren’t black, or white = grey: So Gray’s.

You could perhaps have put in “sounds like” at the beginning of the clue here? Still good though.

@GrahamH wrote:

No cryptic hints regarding the below, only to say that there is no open sky in this photograph.

Putting it in simple terms, this photo includes a black bit on the left, a white bit in the middle and a greyish bit on the right. The white bit gives the initial impression of clouds, perhaps indicating that this photo was taken on an overcast Dublin day.

Being pedantic, I suppose it could still be indicative of clouds, which might not necessarily be “open sky” (as in the blue stuff we see on a sunny day) in everybody’s book. But that would be too devious and clearly not what was intended in the above quote.

So that white bit in the middle is most probably a wall.

In summary, I think what we’re looking for here is a white wall somewhere within sight of College Park.

Anyone know a white wall somewhere within sight of College Park?:D

To these eyes, the white and grey bits are either two similarly coloured walls, the grey one being more in shadow because the dark strip in the middle is a corner, or else two walls in the same plane with some class of expansion joint in between.

One question- is the photo the right way up, or has it been rotated? Unlikely, but I must ask to eliminate some confusion.

Also, Graham- to clarify, when I said dodger wat way closer to the first word than s/he might think, it wasn’t a ‘Liffey theory’ I was referring to, it was the fact that dodger used the word ‘opposite’ in his/her guess.

@GrahamH wrote:

It’s not the Museum Building alas Phil, though i see how the frilly edging resembles its string course detailing.

Ooh, Graham, this is causing me sleepless nights at this stage 🙂
I have a few new ideas, but I am not entirely sure as of yet.

@phil wrote:

Ooh, Graham, this is causing me sleepless nights at this stage 🙂
I have a few new ideas, but I am not entirely sure as of yet.

Would some kind resident of Dublin get up on their bicycle, do a few laps of TCD, report back here and hopefully put us out of our misery?;)

It’s blatantly the cottage at Lansdowne Road??

.. just read through the thread properly.. oops!

Is it the Pav?

The meeting of the planes might suggest the Milennium wing of the NGI by Benson & Forsyth, but I can’t reconcile the ‘frilly’ bit with the sharpness of the B&F building in my mind.

Might try the bike ride at lunchtime, Seamus.

Is it the Coyle Hamilton Willis Building?

Is it the Kildare St Club /Alliance Francais building across the street?

Re the outstanding one- it’s not the extension to Leinster House, is it?

Is it Hibernian corner where it meets the old Norwich Union building?

Oh, thank heavens!

Well done Rory W.

Is B a reflection of the the 1st phase of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay. Perhaps prompted by the passing of Sam???

And well done Rory for finally geting the building of Dawson St. I’ll sleep easier knowing that now!

Its the new addition beside City Hall I think? (B)

And all those chaotic rooftops (A)….is it Henrietta Street by chance

Its the new addition beside City Hall I think? (B)

And all those chaotic rooftops (A)….is it Henrietta Street by chance

@Rory W wrote:

Is it Hibernian corner where it meets the old Norwich Union building?

Well done Rory W. Thanks for putting me out of my misery 😀

The way the shadows are falling on the chimneys in A makes me think that that is an approximately East-West street. I’m going to guess Summerhill Parade.:o

We’re a bit behind time on these two, I think.

I was in Dublin keeping half an eye out. No joy at all.

:confused: 😀

🙂

10 Pounds down says its Parnell Square East/ Cavandish Row early in the day… I was only looking at that antique “top-up” recently 😉

FTW! 🙂

………..or is it in Phibsboro?

wicklow st?

Well done, Hutton.

I’ve a quick question about this one (and relating generally to sunlight in Dublin), probably a gimme for most architects, who deal with these kind of factors all the time.

I originally thought that A was probably an East-West street, because of the way the shadows are falling on the chimneys. Cavendish Row clearly isn’t.

Would it therefore be correct to say that that photo must have been taken in the very early morning?

It’s a fine photo, by the way. And it solves the mystery of the whereabouts of the FA Cup that was stolen years ago.:p

@Seamus O’G wrote:

Well done, Hutton.

Many thanks 🙂

After figuring out the second one too – ’tis the new Ilac by the side of Roches. I knew that I knew it – good tip Graham re the surface being matt on the dry days 🙂

So 2 happy more faces for me! 🙂 🙂

@Seamus O’G wrote:

I originally thought that A was probably an East-West street, because of the way the shadows are falling on the chimneys. Cavendish Row clearly isn’t.

Would it therefore be correct to say that that photo must have been taken in the very early morning?

In theory, knowing the orientation of a street and examining the line of the shadows cast should be sufficient to determine the time a photo was taken. If you project back from a shadow to the object casting the shadow, this will give the exact position of the sun. (If it can be done from two separate points, the answer will be even more accurate due to triangulation.) The sun is only ever in precisely the same position twice a year, at either side of the longest/shortest days- Dec 20th = Dec 22nd; Dec 19th = Dec 23rd; June 19th = June 23rd; etc.

So if the street above is north-south, and the sun seems low from the shadows, then I’d guess it was taken around midday in the winter, as the sun would be in the due south position at midday (moving from east to west through south as the day progresses), and the low angle would indicate winter time.

Which side of the solstice? Only our photographer knows the answer to that.;)

If it was an east-west street, then you could presume an early morning photo time in summer- or a late evening one! 🙂

(The above is a methodology more than an accurate answer to your question. I’m not sure off the top of my head of the exact orientation of Cavendish Row.)

B definitely resembles Civic Offices on Woodquay

Wow Graham, you’re really making a feast of this one 😀 I initialy thought Wood Quay too but that would have been be too easy. It’s a good one all the same and annoys me evertime I open this thread.

Is it not the new Ilac so? :confused:

Was sure it was 🙁 🙁

@GrahamH wrote:

I’m surprised people are a bit evasive about the orientation of Parnell Square – it’s surely one of the most ‘iconic’ elements on a Dublin map, along with the Trinity campus and St. Stephen’s Green? It’s even more skewed than O’Connell Street (due to the lie of the Gardiner lands), making the square more diagonal than vertical and hence close to a N/W-S/E orientation.

😮
Perhaps some of us didn’t know where Cavendish Row was? (It’s not marked by name on any map I have.)

But I’d have to disagree about the ‘iconic’ status of Parnell Square on maps- I think that depends completely on the map you’re using. My daily reference map is the OSI Dublin City and District Street Guide (6th Ed.), on which Parnell Sq is fairly unobtrusive, certainly much less noticeable than Grangegorman, St Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square, Mountjoy Square, Trinity, IFSC and St James’s Hospital, to name just a few on the same two-page sheet.

@GrahamH wrote:

Here’s another quick (or not) one.

Quick. Ha.:confused: 😀

Time for a clue perhaps? (Maybe you could tell us if it is on the northside or the southside).

I’ve a feeling it might be in a park. I don’t know why.

@Seamus O’G wrote:

I’ve a feeling it might be in a park. I don’t know why.

Nice one; Fionn Uisce FTW 🙂

@hutton wrote:

Fionn Uisce FTW 🙂

The Phoenix Park, eh? Any further details?:)

Any other clues available?

Or even white smoke for a location in the Phoenix Park?:)

How about a monument in Glasnevin Cemetery

Something to do with Gas or Electricity then….

Or maybe around Leinster House….

The Phoenix Park its not – but another ‘flight of fancy’ says its that place where a former owner-occupier Lord Edward Fitzgerald described as “not inspiring bright ideas” – that is to say Leinster House (Kildare St gates); clearly Edward Fitz must have known something about it’s future use… So Kildare St gates of Leinster House ftw! 🙂

Here’s one, for the guessing.
I would have done 5, but I don’t have enough photos of Dublin, to do a full 5.
I’m also slightly breaking the rules by posting a building outside of the canals., but at least that’s a hint for you.

@GrahamH wrote:

Graham, I think your photo is of one of the corners of the Government Buildings on Merrion Street Upper.

http://www.archeire.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/merrion_square/govbuildings_lge.html

Is it the Powerscourt Townhouse? Cant think it would be

Ashtons?

Exactamundo PVC King.

the pub in Clonskeagh? the classier alternative to O’Sheas for many years of UCD planners? (and possibly architects) Only ashton’s I know

i know i know where that is but its refusing to come

Yours isn’t near Trinity Street / St Andrew Street is it, Graham? I keep meaning to check. It definitely rings a bell with me too.

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This one should be pretty easy, I’d imagine. There has been a little creative framing, but it is otherwise undoctored:

(I thought I should start my next 1000 posts on a high note. :))

Blisterman – Is that the gable of the house near the corner of Leeson St and Dartmouth Road?
KB2

graham
is it on parnell street

@GrahamH wrote:

Hmmm – all these development lifestyle blurbs just blur into one. Not Altro Vetro is is? Or the RHK?

Neither, I’m afraid, but you’re geographically close with one of your guesses. 🙂

I know what you mean about the lifestyle blurbs – sure isn’t ‘The spirit of gracious living’ available just around the corner from me! – but I’ve never seen a billboard as brutally honest as the one above. 😉

@KerryBog2 wrote:

Blisterman – Is that the gable of the house near the corner of Leeson St and Dartmouth Road?
KB2

No, PVC king already guessed it. It’s Ashton’s Pub in Clonskeagh.

@GrahamH wrote:

I took a good look at the Newmarket buildings the other day, ctesiphon. Interestingly, on three of the eh, ‘crenellations’ there is a set of three stone date-stamps: 1798, 1948 and 1998…
What would these refer to?

Nothing to do with its origins, by the sounds of things. This from Christine Casey’s Dublin:

weird. surely 1916 would be the first date one would think of for republican reasons. The GFA is hardly regarded as a major milestone for Irish Republicanism per se, a milestone for the island yes, but not for any particular group. And 1948 isn’t either, especially considering it was a Fine Gael govt which did it. it could explain 1798 but for the other two it’s tenuous at best. I’d find it very odd if this was the case. It’s possible but weird if true. Research!! we must find the answer

Agreed.

Also, I was being a little tongue-in-cheek with the GFA. A quick Google (or http://www.blackle.com as we’re all using now, of course :)) for 1998 + republican + Ireland yielded little else, but Yes, it’s a long shot at best. And to further undermine the theory, I have a suspicion the building was completed earlier than 1998 for some reason (and not just because Casey says ‘mid 1990s’ ;)). When I lived nearby in 2001 it seemed more than three years old, for sure- timeless, you might call it. So the choice of 1998 would then be even odder, and presumably intended to commemorate an anticipated anniversary rather than an event yet to happen.

I’m open to correction/mockery on all of this.

Aha finally I get 2 minutes free while theres sunshine – arising out of which, a few new mind-teasers are provided for entertainment -enjoy 😀

1) Whos got de balls to figure this one out – the framing may help 😉

2) Where is this, and for extra points what it is:

3) A bridge too far I hope not – still within the canals see! 😀

4) New meets old here:

5) This one’s a bit of an arresting image…

6) While this one is helpfully obscure enough to ensure that a few of you will be scratching your heads…

7) And finally I thought I’d throw this one in for those who haven’t seen it yet –

Enjoy…

not much good at this but sure here goes …

2. The Abbey ? Birdhouse ?
5. Kevin St. Garda Station ?

6. Harcourt St. possibly ?
7. I’ll leave for a non dub.

@Peter FitzPatrick wrote:

not much good at this but sure here goes …
5. Kevin St. Garda Station ?

Bingo – well done Peter you got that one 🙂

All others are still open…

1 is on Dorset Street anyhow. Those are the new lamps. Around Eccles Street maybe
4 same street
7 is Cork Street?

number 3 is a wee blue house by Ruth Walsh on the side of the national archive on Bride street around the corner from the former site of the dublin bird market on Peter street. yee haahw!!!

@hutton wrote:

6) While this one is helpfully obscure enough to ensure that a few of you will be scratching your heads…

Number 6 is on the east side of Merrion Street Upper, just beside the junction of Baggot Street, Ely Place and Merrion Row. I remember seeing it and noting how obscure it was. Worryingly, I had a feeling it might appear on this thread some day:)

7) And finally I thought I’d throw this one in for those who haven’t seen it yet –

I am familiar with this building, but don’t want to give it away. It kind of reminds me of the ‘Ij Tower’ on Oostelijke Handelskade in Amsterdam

http://www.neutelings-riedijk.com/index.php?id=13,51,0,0,1,0

@hutton wrote:

Bingo – well done Peter you got that one

All others are still open…

1 out of 3 !

Doh !

@Maxwiggan wrote:

number 3 is a wee blue house by Ruth Walsh on the side of the national archive on Bride street around the corner from the former site of the dublin bird market on Peter street. yee haahw!!!

Spot on Maxwiggan – Bride St indeed on what I think used to be part of Jacobs….However, as to what it is, is still a mystery!

@StephenC wrote:

1 is on Dorset Street anyhow. Those are the new lamps. Around Eccles Street maybe
4 same street
7 is Cork Street?

Dorset St is damn hot – but tis not Eccles St ]Number 6 is on the east side of Merrion Street Upper, just beside the junction of Baggot Street, Ely Place and Merrion Row. I remember seeing it and noting how obscure it was. Worryingly, I had a feeling it might appear on this thread some day:) [/QUOTE]

Phil you are spot on. Buy this man a pint! Wonderfully obscure – but clearly not obscure enough :p … Oh well, great anoraks think alike 😀

So thats a fair few spotted so… However numbers 3 and 4 are still up for the taking. While number 4 is a little bit of a jest, number 3 really should be got as it is so unique – Gothick/ Gothic Revival archs either side of a classical arch, forming what is clearly a canal bridge – come on folks..:D

@hutton wrote:

3)

4)

Is 4 on OConnell Street then, in front of teh last remaining Georgian

@StephenC wrote:

Is 4 on OConnell Street then, in front of teh last remaining Georgian

Oh very good – ’tis indeed O’ C St, although opposite side: It and one other on the same side would seem to be a peculiarity in that they must have been left over from the Georgians prior to the 1921-23 conflict, and subsequently re-integrated with the 20’s / 30’s buildings 🙂

Excellent stuff – thats pretty much most of them spotted…However no.3 still awaits identification 😉

number3 is wee blue house by ruth walah on the side of the national archive on bride street

i think he meant the canal. Would it be cheating to name every single road that crosses the canals?

I’d say you could stick to the northside, alonso. I don’t recognise it from the Grand Canal, but I’m not certain of that either- there’s a couple I’d need to check.

What’s the nearest one to Mountjoy? Prospect Road?

Where is no. 7? Did i miss the answer?

It’s Cork Street / Dolphin’s Barn afaik, JC. Presumably StephenC’s suggestion was close enough.

Mentioned previously here: https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=3822&page=2

@ctesiphon wrote:

I’d say you could stick to the northside, alonso. I don’t recognise it from the Grand Canal, but I’m not certain of that either- there’s a couple I’d need to check.

What’s the nearest one to Mountjoy? Prospect Road?

This one is a puzzle. I think there’s towpath almost directly adjacent to the Royal Canal at least the whole way in from Broombridge to the North Strand – in some cases sharing the bridge with the canal (i.e. under the road). The Grand Canal has less of a recognised towpath in parts, so I’d be inclined to think that’s where it is. On the other hand, it’s more hump-backed bridge territory, and there is a bit more variety of bridges along the Royal, so it might be along that one.:confused:

@GrahamH wrote:

Clearly they’re late 19th century at the earliest, so would conform with a commerical premises that was built/altered at that time. Or else they’re actually c.1922, but it’s hard to believe coal was still being used on such a domestic scale by then. Turf-fired central heating or at the very least mass-importing of coal to the rear of the new office buildings would surely have been more pragmatic…

I would say they were a replacement cover from the early 20th Century. Does anyone know when Tonge & Taggart were in Windmill lane? That might tell us for sure.

not the disused toilets in college green?

@GrahamH wrote:

Yes it probably would. There’s a huge coal hole cover outside Morrison Chambers on Nassau Street – one of the biggest Edwardian(ish) office developments in the city – that appears contemporaneous to the building, so it looks like old habits died hard.

Here’s another quick one. I will be very impressed with anyone who gets this – you need to be a snooper of the highest order to know where it is. Then again, it’s in such a surprisingly frequented place that you may just have stumbled upon it one day, should curiousity have gotten the better of you – as in this case.

It’s not in a graveyard or obscure city park…

looks like the entrance to St Michans crypt

@GrahamH wrote:

So no one’s got it yet 🙁

Well here’s another in the meantime – one of the curiosities of the city that both the location and an explanation for would be welcome! I’d like to know more about it.

marlboro st beside DIT building

i think you’re right