sketchbookofirishantiquities

Stunning image from a time when categorizing and documenting cities was the norm. Leaving us a deep and rich history. Thank you for sharing this really gorgeous and important photograph

Bo Dudas You're very welcome.

A little to the left, and lurker-less in December 2012 via William Murphy
Edit - Also

beachcomber australia I'm obviously wildly biassed, but ours is more atmospheric?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Indeedy!
LurkerView (I went for a snoop up the stairs) - maps.app.goo.gl/ZHoJ81oEyJCNfT2B6

Church of the Four Beautiful Ones

“St Fursey, Brendan of Birr, Conal and Bearchan are the 4 saints in question

The Church is 11-12C with modifications but their graves (and a 5th) are said to lie just outside the church behind the altar. There is also a Holy Well to which healings are attributed.”

OS: 51 852 102 marked

Also ‘Teampall an Ceathrar Álainn’
The adjacent Well of the four beauties was the inspiration for Synge’s Well of the Saints

TIMMY.
Did ever you hear tell of a place across a bit of the sea, where there is an island, and the grave of the four beautiful saints?

MARY DOUL.
I’ve heard people have walked round from the west and they speaking of that.

TIMMY.
[impressively.] — There’s a green ferny well, I’m told, behind of that place, and if you put a drop of the water out of it on the eyes of a blind man, you’ll make him see as well as any person is walking the world.

MARTIN DOUL.
[with excitement.] — Is that the truth, Timmy? I’m thinking you’re telling a lie.

TIMMY.
[gruffly.] — That’s the truth, Martin Doul, and you may believe it now, for you’re after believing a power of things weren’t as likely at all. ... ...

From - www.gutenberg.org/files/1241/1241-h/1241-h.htm

"THE WELL OF THE SAINTS was first produced in the Abbey Theatre in February, 1905, by the Irish National Theatre Society."

beachcomber australia And here's the poster for that "new play in three acts"...

Carol Maddock The NLI is always amazing!

What about the 'Dripping Well' ? And all those shells ? ... ...

Top left says Old Mill on Poddle River, Dolphin's Barn, 1893.

Which confused me, as I didn't think the Poddle flowed through Dolphin's Barn.

But looking at the 6" and 25", I see Rutland Mills, with a mill race coming from the Poddle.

The mill would have been at the junction of Rutland Avenue and Clogher Road.

In Google's aerial view linked below, you can still see where the mill race left the Poddle beside (now) Mount Argos Square

maps.app.goo.gl/TSmqP2cmPxpkpP4H8
Bottom right

Perhaps top right refers to Emmet’s hideaway, not Lord Edward?
If so, that house is long gone

On the 6", the stone which splits the Poddle is marked as Tongue and the small townland Tonguefield.

But in Google maps, it is marked as Stone Boat, which is where the Kimmage pub gets its name.

" ... Arrest and death
Lord Edward's hiding place with the feather merchant Nicholas Murphy was betrayed to the spymaster Francis Higgins (qv) by the secretive catholic barrister Francis Magan (qv), who received the £1,000 reward. At seven in the evening on 19 May, an arrest party led by Major Sirr (qv) burst into his upstairs room at 151 Thomas Street in the heart of the Liberties. FitzGerald fiercely resisted arrest, killed one man with his dagger, but sustained serious injuries himself when Sirr shot him in the shoulder at point-blank range. He was taken to Dublin Castle and then jailed in Newgate. ..."
From - www.dib.ie/biography/fitzgerald-lord-edward-a3138

See also - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Edward_FitzGerald#Arrest_and_d...

Hmmm ...

"House at Harold's Cross Bridge, Dublin where it ____ Lord Ed Fitzgerald was concealed"

A pair of twin Dutch Billy's near Harold's Cross bridge with a cruciform roof plan, long since demolished, I wonder how long they lasted. I don't recall ever seeing them or that particular photo before. Likely on the Northern side of the bridge anyway.