How well do you know Dublin?
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GrahamH
Thanks for the compliment re the photos.
I think I am (unintentionally) misleading people on the crown. That is not meant to be a white surround. It was originally meant to be a transparent background. It should have been a png rather than a jpeg. I confined the item to a circle just to make it more difficult. But by way of reparation I will give a full rectangle which will give you an enormous clue. But it is still within the canals.
The crown is on the old power supply unit on the transition between Fenian Street and Grand Canal Street. I looked at it a few days ago, but needed to see the surrounding writing to recognise it.
Is the Elvery’s building on Aungier Street? It’s annoyingly familiar.
@goneill wrote:
John W Elvery + Co waterproofers and sports outfitters at 65/66 Dawson Street/corner Nassau Street?
If it is, it was demolished by Norwich Union a short period later:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=swqf29ggbndd&scene=29506597&lvl=2&sty=b
The corner is addressed the same way.
@Andrew Duffy wrote:
The crown is on the old power supply unit on the transition between Fenian Street and Grand Canal Street. I looked at it a few days ago, but needed to see the surrounding writing to recognise it.
Bang on Andrew. On the corner of Upr. Erne St. and Hogan Place.
That’s the Stork shop on the corner of Holles St. on the other side of the road.I’m bust. Over to the next contributor. Thanks for the fun.:D
@GrahamH wrote:
Anyone care to guess where this curious little chappie resides?
He’s in the city centre, and most unusually, the only animal carving on the entire dressed stone building.
This one is driving me nuts.
I still think its in the Lower O’Connoll St / Westmoreland St area.
Possibly over an ATM machine or somesuch ????????????Granite, Portland stone and sandstone in one building . . . . . is it the building on the corner of Dame St. and Fownes St.?
@photopol wrote:
GrahamH
I think I am (unintentionally) misleading people on the crown. That is not meant to be a white surround……………….
Interesting local history in that nameplate. Without wishing to be pedantic, it’s not a crown, it is a coronet, that of an earl, probably Pembroke. An earl’s coronet has eight strawberry leaves (four visible) and eight silver balls (or pearls) around the rim (five visible).
FWIW one of the Pembrokes was known as the “Architect Earl” (early 1700’s) because he was responsible for the building of Westminster Bridge.
KB2
@KerryBog2 wrote:
Without wishing to be pedantic, it’s not a crown, it is a coronet, that of an earl, probably Pembroke.
Take your point and it does stitch it in historically. I was using the term loosely without any expertise.
From a colonial point of view it is a neat subset. 🙂
Is trilocation Kerry, Dublin, Europe, or, Kerry, Dublin, USA, or, Parish, Kerry, Dublin? Just wondering. Following up my family history at the moment and getting very local in the process. My Kerry connection is Caherboshinna (between Ventry and Dingle).
An nà is annamh is iontach. The rare thing is a wonder to behold.
@photopol wrote:
Is trilocation Kerry, Dublin, Europe, or, Kerry, Dublin, USA, or, Parish, Kerry, Dublin? Just wondering.
.It started as Dublin, Kerry and US, then mutated to Dublin, Kerry and wherever I find myself on a work project. I’m a blow-in Kerryman, no Kerry blood on the male side back to 1470. Good luck with the genealogy, it’s a drug.
Rs,
K.
PS Loved your old photos. The Vampires in the fly-past; Ballybrack/Killiney; often went into Decco’s Cave at Whiterock – there is another one up the cliff at the Ramparts.KerryBog2
Thanks.
There’s an actual Vampire hanging out of the ceiling in the museum in Collins Barracks. When I saw it I said to the guy, that’s a Vampire. And then I saw the label, this is a Vampire. A bit embarrassed but thrilled nonetheless.
Decco’s has been opened up to potholers as far as I can make out. Tread carefully, it’s a mobile phone dead area, no surprise. Not familiar with the ramparts version. Where is that? I know the cave/tunnel came out somewhere up Killiney Hill.
Ballybrack/Killiney is a fabulous area for history. I stumbled into it by accident (basically, living there).
From an architectural/archeological/genealogical point of view this should be of interest.
Having a ball.
P
@goneill wrote:
John W Elvery + Co waterproofers and sports outfitters at 65/66 Dawson Street/corner Nassau Street?
Spot on goneill! The replacement building (which coincidentally has also featured on this thread) employed a chamfered corner too. How this part of Nassau Street and Dawson Street has changed…
gunter, correct on the Fownes Street corner building: the former Crown Life offices by Thomas Newenham Deane. I should have trusted my initial judgement and left that darn sandstone course out!
A curious, idiosyncratic little chap – the only carved animal on the entire building.
but he’s there for a purpose . . . . . to kick out the flat banded stonework on the left to form a slightly projected drip detail to the continuous window cill on the right
. . . . . very clever stuff 🙂@photopol wrote:
KerryBog2
Decco’s has been opened up to potholers ……….. I know the cave/tunnel came out somewhere up Killiney Hill. ………Not familiar with the ramparts version. Where is that?………..From an architectural/archeological/genealogical point of view this should be of interest.
P
Photopol,
Thanks for the link to that Martello Tower site – we had a discussion here on them a year or so ago. I have watched the renovation of Tower No 7 when passing on Killiney Hill Road. V.nice to see the photos. The cannon mounting is very interesting, an amalgamation of the slide of a carronade with the breeching of a long gun. I would prefer to see covers on the trunnions before I would fire it shotted! Looks smaller than the usual 26 pounder.As a kid I lived out that way and always understood that the Whiterock cave, Decco’s , is an old lead & silver mine dating to the mid 1700’s. Decco was an old sailor who lived in it for years, back around 1900. It does not go in very far, about 40 feet or so is my memory, and certainly not onto K Hill; sometimes we could go no further than 15 feet as it was silted up by sand/storm debris. A spring runs through it, so that clears it, often leaving a bank on one side and a long, deep pool on the left as you enter. Caving gear necessary!
There were other mines in Dalkey and also a “gold rush†in the 1830’s. I’ve always associated the latter with the cave/tunnel at Loreto Convent which is not very long though as kids we believed it went out to Dalkey Island. The Ramparts is what locals call the Vico Gentlemens’ Bathing Place.
Rs
K
PS not Fexco.@KerryBog2 wrote:
Decco’s … does not go in very far, about 40 feet or so is my memory, and certainly not onto K Hill; sometimes we could go no further than 15 feet as it was silted up by sand/storm debris. A spring runs through it, so that clears it, often leaving a bank on one side and a long, deep pool on the left as you enter.
Assume you have seen these blog entries. Decco 1 Decco 2
I never had caving gear but on a recent revisit I took some photos. You have to belly your way through a narrow tunnel to get to the chamber where the pool is now on the right. I don’t know how much further back it really goes.Apparently Beckett has Molloy living there at some stage.
My Ballybrack/Killiney stuff is gathered here.
I suppose we are straying a bit too far outside the canals for this thread 🙂
Some exemplar conservation pointing there!
Think I have most of ’em. A shame the provisional plastic conceals the beauty of C and its neighbours :clap:
H is bugging the hell out of me. Not Iveagh Markets, not Fruit Markets, not Iveagh Play House, not any of the major commercial Victorians. The only clue is poor quality brickwork…
hmmm struggling over a,b,c, and h – though i have a suspicion on b now
wondering is h some sort of utility building – toilet or esb block
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