Underneath Dublin?
- This topic has 170 replies, 67 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 12 months ago by
.
- Posts
There was an interesting thesis in fifth year exhibition in UCD this year about tunnels under the city ect. Did you know that there are tunnels under UCD also and they are not blocked off (entrance near the watertower).
It’s probably local “folklore”, but there are alleged tunnels running from Deerpark in Mount Merrion to Mount Anville School. And potentially one from Mount Anville to Knocrabo (the large house across Mount Anville Road).
fjp
rumour has it that a tunnel is currently being dug under the Heritage Coucil HQ by a young dissident webmaster, wielding an arsenal of explosives and unique page impression stats 😉
The water tower tunnel in ucd only runs as far as the science block – went wandering down there in first year – the things you do to avoid study huh!
I was in St Bricin’s Military Hospital, Arbour Hill last Friday. There is a tunnel which runs from there, via Arbour Hill Prison (formerly the military prison) to the former Collins Barracks, all downhill to move prisoners around. It is closed up for security but essentially still there.
I heard that there was a stop built under O’Connell street for the underground that would inevitably be built, or so they thought. It was around the time they were building the underground in London, so they thought it would only be a matter of time before Dublin had an underground system. Is this true or is someone mixing the public toilets with an underground stop?
I was walking down to bus aras last week and there is a deep excavation on Store Street.
It reveals a load of services running all over the place but also a brick tunnel running along the centre line of the street.The tunnel is big enough for a single person to walk along. I’m not sure if it was a pedestrian tunnel or a water duct, although it seems to have a flat floor, rather then the curved one you would normally associate with a sewer
Might have been a pipe of some sort, or the remains of a cellar or something – there were old stores there prior to Busaras on the edge of the Custom House Dock (now filled in – partly under Busaras and the road between it and the IFSC)….
victorian brick sewer by the sounds of it
probably a bit like this
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nj/state/Essex-NewarkSewerPics.htmThe people behind that site have way too much time on their hands
There’s a reasonably susbstantial network of wide tunnels under front square in Trinners – – the dons use them to store the college wine collection I believe.
Originally posted by monZQ
I heard that there was a stop built under O’Connell street for the underground that would inevitably be built, or so they thought. It was around the time they were building the underground in London, so they thought it would only be a matter of time before Dublin had an underground system. Is this true or is someone mixing the public toilets with an underground stop?Now if this were true, it would be fabulous to see but I imagine its a closed down toilet block. I think there’s a sealed off one down near the O’Connell Monument, you cann see the metal panels set into the paving.
Originally posted by MG
Now if this were true, it would be fabulous to see but I imagine its a closed down toilet block. I think there’s a sealed off one down near the O’Connell Monument, you cann see the metal panels set into the paving.
I remember this one
I think they closed it down in the late eightiesThe tunnel from Collins barracks was originally built by the British army for bringing horses from the barracks to the army veterinary and quarantine stables which used to stand between Arbour Hill and St Bricins hospital. To assist the horses on the steep incline, the floor of the tunnel was cobbled.
It was never built as a pedestrian way but was used the odd time to move prisoners to Arbour Hill Prison from the old provost prison which once stood at the North East corner of the barracks (Wolfe Tone was incarcerated in the old Provost prison).They are definitely planning to build an underground train station under O’Connell Street right now as part of the Luas works. It will be put in place at the junction with Abbey Street to link in with the future Metro.
The vanishing Underground Public Loo
The earlier reference in the post, regarding underground loos, led me to reflect on this vanishing facility.
There are, I think, four I know of in Dublin, all closed.
1. Under the Thomas Moore statue, opposite the Bank of Ireland
(mentioned by James Joyce “as the meeting of the waters”, no less)2. On the Liffey quay side, across and down from O’Connell Bridge House,
(an over ground ladies here is also gone.)3. At the Five lamps (if I recall correctly?)
4. In O’Connell Street, in the central median.
Were there / are there any more?
Originally posted by kefu
They are definitely planning to build an underground train station under O’Connell Street right now as part of the Luas works. It will be put in place at the junction with Abbey Street to link in with the future Metro.This is not quite right – There’s a sub-station (for electrical power) going in at that point. That’s all.
Regarding the link to Metro – I don’t think that’s likely to happen at O’Connell St.
The DTO stategy doc put that line to the east of Busarus. See
http://www.luas.ie/plan/strategy.aspHello all,
I did some work in a cyber cafe on O’Connell Street (under the amusements). Underneath it is an old ice cream factory that stretches way back down towards The Abbey. At the “front” of the factory, there is an entrance (almost totally blocked up) to a tunnel that runs right accross O’Connell Street to apparently underneath what is now “Supermacs” on the other side of the street. Its apparently one of several that crisss-cross the street. Couldnt persuade the guy to let me have a look though. Will try to find out some more detail.
Regards,
Simon
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
