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I would say that the church and the arcades are quite seperate and built at seperate times. With the date of 1864 for Findlaters, is it not feasible that the quakers moved there and that the arcades were built after they had left, which would tie in with the date of 1882, 18 years after the opening of findlaters? The arcades are not depicted on the OS map showing the layout of the block including the meetinghouse.
The chapterhouse of the monastery, which is 2 metres underneath the street level is located beneath the stone warehouses on Meetinghouse Lane and you can ring Duchas and arrange access. They have an exhibition about the monastery and some of the later history of the area.The building that is currently the olympus gym is marked on the earliest OS map as the quaker meeting house, as is the building on the corner that is featured at the top of this topic. The interior of the gym dates back to this Dissenter Meeting House with arches dating to 1864.
I have also heard that a tram garage was the original use for the arcades although the brick entrance arch is dated 1882 which is very close to the dates of the meeting house. The os map shows that the main exterior of the meeting house opened into a small square located where the carpark is now. The plan layout look very similar to that of the meetinghouse which has now become the Ark in templebar. I would imageine the facade would have appeared quite similar.
I never found out why the beams of the arcade were so heavy, they seem biger then would be necessary merely to support aroof above so perhaps there was already upper floors in existence before tyrone production came along.
The block has a very interesting history and contained a cistercian monastery, two protestent meeting houses and a jewish synogoue at various periods.
It’s great to find these spaces within the city blocks, forced to move off the main frontages as the groups who built them were not the mainstream religions of their day.I have heard that there are passages under Henrietta street from the time when the law courts were held in the kings inns and judges were living in the street and would use the tunnels to pass back and forth from the Chambers to their houses.
The underground chamber underneath the liffey sounds great. is there any documentary proof? and why was it built?
Its strange to think of these industrial structures which are dotted around the landscape of ireland.They are so many storeys high( seven or eight in the monaghan version shown here some even higher) and yet housing is still built at incredibly low densities around every irish town. They should be an example to current plannersand developers about a direction to explore for the future.
