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Road near Botanic Gardens (Finglas Golf Club), Glasnevin, Co. Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• guliolopez said:

  There's a thread from 2014 on the Glasnevin Heritage FB page about a similar search for this site. They seemingly couldn't find it on the OSI. Although the thread has a few suggestions on location...

• Carol Maddock said:

  Earliest mention in the newspapers is Friday, 7 July 1911 - a snippet about their July Monthly Meda which was 18 holes against bogey apparently. In October 1912, the hon. sec., John B. Patterson had an unemployed man - ultimately fined 5 shillings and costs or 7 days in chokey - taken to court for trespassing on the links. (Evening Herald, 25 October 1912) They had women members too, according to the Irish Independent, 10 January 1914.

• aidanhodson said:

  The Glasnevin Heritage page on Facebook has some information, indicating that it closed in 1920 m.facebook.com/GlasnevinHeritage/photos/a.182651638552178...

• guliolopez said:

  The Glasnevin Heritage FB thread suggests that perhaps it was around here - close to the junction between the Finglas Road and Old Finglas Road. An area I happen to know fairly well. And this image rings no bells at all with me. The landform behind the clubhouse could indeed well be one of the "disused sandpits" labelled on the OSI map. And would be consistent with the "road near Botanic Gdns" description. Whereever it was, seemingly Taoiseach John A. Costello was a member. And, according to his biography, he had some difficulty getting home from there during Easter week 1916. The route he describes cycling (to Rathdown Rd via North Circular Rd) doesn't really help much.

• Niall McAuley said:

  That OSI sheet, DN018-03 was surveyed in 1907.