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Nearby googlysphere with some lighting effects.

Date wise, the gable is labelled 1898.

Niall McAuley After 1898, thank you.

The NIAH says it was extended in 1906 and 1912, may narrow it down

Mr Bowler-Hat moved benches for this one - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321228

A an article about the New Aviary in Evening Herald (Dublin) - Saturday 29 June 1907:

Dr. R. F. Scarf. hon. sec., stated that he had transferred to the New Aviary on the far aide of the lake a number birds he had recently acquired. which had been in a cage under the Haughton House. while, some alterations were taking place in the Aviary.

That reads to me that the cages under Haughton House were temporary. Possibly. Or possibly not.

Edit: NOT.

If I remember rightly, it was still like that in the early '70s and would have been here: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,712863,735325,7,9

I think that's the Albert Tower that the elephants are in front of.

From a similar picture in the Northside Pimple: "Dublin Zoo c.1950. Children stand very close, looking in awe at the large Indian elephant, Sara (1932 – 62), who was the last elephant used to give rides for children, and the smaller Ceylonese elephant Komali. The building on the right is the Elephant House or ‘Albert Tower’, which was built in 1845-6 to house a giraffe. On the death of the giraffe the elephants moved into the house. It was designed by George Wilkinson, who was also the architect for Harcourt Street Station"

Freeman's disagrees about the architect. The architect of the Albert Tower, Charles Sherrie, died "from the effects of an accident sustained by falling off a car whilst driving up from Holywood to Belfast ... He was also architect of several other important structures in this town, and at present had charge of the new Royal Theatre which is being erected in Belfast" (Freeman's April 11 1871). Admission fees for the Albert Tower in 1854-5 amounted to £1 13s 1d (AGM of the Royal Zoological Society reported in Freeman's May 2 1855). I couldn't help noticing that amongst other sources of income was "manure £14 13s 6d". I imagine elephants made a not insubstantial contribution

There seems to be some difference of opinion as to who the architect was. My quote above is from a "From the Archives" page so I've no idea when it was originally written, other than that it was sometime after 1950. It does have a few design elements also found on Harcourt street station.

Dublin Zoo is one of the worlds most successful breeders of Lions. At the time of this shot, they were housed in old style Victorian cages inside the Russell House, - a lovely building in itself. Their space was quite small, and you could get very close to the big cats. Thats when Zoos were for people, now Zoos are for animals.

o que buena foto :D

A beautiful creature, yet so dangerous! He has a humble look in his eyes, which we all know is very deceiving!

Nice capture!

gorgeous