This section covers the buildings and planning decisions along the Poddle River. Some of the most notable buildings and schemes include Templeogue House, Mountdown House and Mill, Kimmage Manor, St Anne’s, Riverside Apartments, St. Martin’s, Mount Argus, Our Lady’s Hospital, National Boxing Stadium, Clarke’s Tobacco Factory, St. Michael de Le Pole’s church, Iveagh Buildings, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Archiepiscopal Palace, Dublin Castle , Olympia Theatre and Irish Life Assurance building.

Mysterious Precautions
18 Jun 1881For tho past two days workmen have been engaged in cutting the only subterranean communication with the Castle which existsin tho city. Most people in Dublin have noticed a large…
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Bull & Bride Alley Improvement
20 Jan 1900The important improvement scheme in connection with the district known as the Bride alley Area, and about beginning which some delay has taken place., owing to the requisition by Lord…
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Gossip of the day
5 Mar 1900In connection with the building of the Bride’s Alley area artisan dwellings an interesting work is being performed. This is the changing of the course of the River Poddle that…
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Bull Alley Improvement Scheme
19 Jun 1900less rotten and the foundations were over the river Poddle. HE assessed the value at five years purchase. With regard to the ground rent he valued at 15 1/2 years…
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Liberty of St. Patrick’s – as it was and as it is.
30 Jan 1901YE OLDE CITIE LIBERTY OF ST. PATRICK’S – AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A most excellent suggestion was made weeks ago by a correspondent in tie columns of…
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Removal of the old houses on Patrick Street
1 Mar 1902A London weekly in commenting on the removal of the old houses on Patrick Street says – “Few of the inhabitants of Dublin are aware of the existence of the…
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Co. Dublin Land Case
18 Jan 1905Yesterday Mr. Justice Fitzgerald; with Mr P. Callan as assessor, sat in the Receivers Court, four Courts, and continued the hearing of county Dublin fair rent cases. Mary Ida Clayton…
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Cottages and land known as “Perrystown”
19 Oct 1911Modern Residence COTTAGES AND LANDS known as “PERRYSTOWN”, WHITEHALL ROAD, KIMMAGE, CO. DUBLIN. We are instructed by John B. Hoe Esq. to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION AT 33 SMITHFIELD, DUBLIN,…
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Road Repair
19 Jul 1924The following work was passed provisionally at the quarterly meeting of the Council held on the 15th April – No 1981 – To repair and maintain 140 perches of the…
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Position Of Short Term Tenants
6 Oct 1937REVISION OF LAW IN REGARD TO COMPULSORY ACQUISITION FORECAST SUGGESTED revision of the law in regard to the compulsory acquisition of houses, held under monthly and weekly tenancies, was foreshadowed…
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New flat scheme for Dublin to cost £250,000
11 Jan 1938A new housing scheme for Dublin which will cost approximately £250,000, forming part of the Corporation’s recently-announced £7.000,000 plan, is to be proceeded with immediately. The scheme provides.for the erection…
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Make Liffey Beautiful
18 Feb 1938As the volume of water for the Liffey scheme at Poulaphouca was controlled, why not use it to make the Liffey always an ornament, said Mr. Stephen Gwynn, the well-known…
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Saint Patrick’s – Dublin’s Ancient Cathedral
18 Feb 1939The offer of a last resting place for the late Mr. W. B. Yeats in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, has drawn public attention to that ancient edifice, and, this being-…
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It’s a proud day for Irish amateur boxing
2 Mar 1939IT’S A PROUD DAY FOR IRISH AMATEUR BOXING New Luxury Stadium Stages First Show To-night Last night the New Boxing Stadium in Dublin was officially opened with all the usual…
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£20,000 claim against corporation
29 Oct 1952Evidence was given before Mr Justice Budd, in the High Court, by Peter Cullen, Mount Down House Templeogue, in his action claiming £20,000 damages and injunction against Dublin Corporation for…
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This building survives in paintings
22 Apr 1960Church and the pool of Round tower of Dublin By Dr. George A. Little At Eastertide the Liturgy of the Festival focuses attention on the Church. The season’s special quality…
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The face of Dublin
10 Jan 1963THE worst castle in the worst situation in Christendom A was how one of the Duke of Ormonde’s relatives described Dublin Castle in the 17th century. In the middle ages…
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Our Lady’s Hospice – new wing
23 Oct 1963New wing SITUATED on the banks of the little known Poddle river at Harold’s Cross is a group .of buildings now known as Our. Lady’s Hospice, founded in 1845 by…
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Martin’s Lands re-alignment, deepening and regrading
4 Mar 1967It is good news for engaged couples GOOD news for hundreds of engaged couples hunting for sites on which to build—there will be available no fewer than 1,442 sites… but…
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Historic Palace is now Garda Station
1 Sep 1967In a few years time a main road will pass over part of what was once sacred and historic ground in Dublin. Nowadays hundreds of peopl padd the spot every…
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Opposition to Hibernian Trust’s Kimmage plan
6 Feb 1970Opposition to Hibernian Trust’s Kimmage plan PLANS HAVE BEEN made for the development of a site of approximately 11.5 acres adjacent to Kimmage Road West, Dublin, where Hibernian Trust Ltd.,…
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Across The River…
4 Jun 1970We crossed the Liffey last night from Capei Street to Wellington Quay to visit the new offices of the Irish Life Assurance Company, who were holding a small party to open the…
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New Dublin District Office For Irish Life
9 Jun 1970LATEST and most impressive milestone in the continuous progress of the Irish Life Assurance Company Limited is the opening of the company’s new Dublin District Office at 16/19 Wellington Quay. Rising high in…
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Olympia gets a reprieve
4 Mar 1971Olympia gets reprieve The proposed development plan for the Olympia Theatre site in Dublin, and adjoining buildings, will probably have to be scrapped following the decision of Dublin Corporation to…
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Appeal launched for St. Patrick’s Cathedral
24 Mar 1972ST. PATRICK’S Cathedral in from the 5th Century, and which has withstood the ravages of lime and even Cromwell, is now being attacked by a new and hidden enemy —…
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The watercourse
1 May 1972THERE has been much useful representation about preservation of national monuments, street facades, canals, open spaces, etc., in relation to urban life. What prompts this letter is the first blow…
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Bad planning may bury ancient water course
25 Jul 1972THE 700-YEAR- OLD City Water Course — once a complex of the little Dublin rivers and canals flowing through old Dublin and now out of sight underground—has left behind a…
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City Watercourse
5 Jan 1973ABOUT six months ago you published a letter from Sister Ann Fitzgerald, O.P., concerning the future of the ancient City Watercourse (the 700-year old canal linking the Dodder at Firhouse…
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Two authorities ban plan
10 Jan 1974DUBLIN development company found itself yesterday afternoon in a verbal planning battle with both Dublin Corporation and Dublin County Council at the same time. Both bodies had refused planning permission…
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Dreaming Spires
21 Dec 1979A view from St. Michael’s Close, Dublin, of the Minot tower and spire of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, so named because the tower was built by Archbishop Thomas Minot. Dean Swift’s…
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Mount Argus Gets Go-Ahead
7 Feb 1986SERVICE charges criticised as “penal” have been substantially reduced in a new grant outline permission for residential buildings on land owned by the Passionist Congregation at Mount Argus in Dublin.…
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On Sale-Spy Mary’s Old Estate
12 Sep 1986On sale – Spy Mary’s old estate A LARGE slice of old Dublin housing stock, with quaint washing rights in the River Poddle, owned by a British Great War spy.…
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Mount Argus . . . £20 m. scheme launched today
18 May 1990Mount Argus . . . £20 m. scheme launched today By Cliodhna O’Donohue The land surrounding Mount Argus, the headquarters for Fr. Brian D’Arcy’s mammoth fund raising activities, in Harold’s…
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New Homes Choice
25 May 1990MOUNT ARGUS is perhaps one of the finest landscaped developments to come on the market in the area for a long time.The River Poddle has been brought through the parkland…
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Discovering The Poddle
13 Jul 1990Discovering the Poddle I SAW the River Poddle — for the first time this week . about it for years, but never quite unexpectedly. r I have Joe Tiernan of Tiernan Homesteads to thank…
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Riverside, Poddle Park
6 Jun 1999Poddle Park, Riverside New Development of 18 one Bed Apartments. Highest quality, secure parking 8 Only Remaining. Macarthy Auctioneers Ph 4904666 www.macauc.com
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Challenge of Poddle overcome
16 Jun 1999Dublins old city walls and the Poddle River are some of the challenges which Dublin Corporation is taking on with its plans for a new five storey office development adjacent…
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