How well do you know Dublin?
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@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
@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
@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
Yer mans Gaff
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.
What an ugly building ^
Presumably 1 is so recognisable for all as to render it unnecessary to be commented on 🙂
I’ve always liked their floodlighting – one of the few, is not the only building in the city that uses what appears to be regular tungsten lamps: they generate a nice warm but clear glow unlike nasty sodium.3 is Iveagh Play House. 5 was very well spotted – would never have got that! The stonework and its condition is strikingly similar to St. Georges.
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