Man-made efforts to control the river and prevent it from flooding buildings and streets in proximity to its banks has led to the Poddle in large parts being “culverted”, sending the river underground in large concrete pipes and tunnels. Most of the river from Mount Argus to Wellington Quay has been sent underground with concrete walls, pipes and tunnels added and the once great water course of considerable magnitude now sneaks beneath Dublin as if it is ashamed of itself. Every so often a sinkhole will appear when these underground tunnels collapse. There are plans to improve Flood Defences along its course to alleviate flooding possibilities.

A crime of a most fiendish nature
4 Mar 1879A crime of a most fiendish nature was attempted within the last few days in the city a crime which makes the blood chill, when remembering that it was the…
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St Catherine’s Parish – New National Schools
28 Oct 1901LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE The foundation stone of the new National Schools for the Catholic Parish, which are already in progress of erection on a very handsome site in Donore…
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Loans for Improvements
28 Nov 1902The local Government Board also writes conveying its sanction to the borrowing by the Corporation of the following sums: — £2,563 in respect of the proposed loan of £3303 6s…
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Terenure Sewage
24 May 1907Terenure Sewerage Proposed loan of £20,000 to carry out the scheme Local Government Board Inquiry Yesterday, in the Recievers Court Mr PC Cowan, Chief Engineering Inspector of the Local Government…
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Relief of Dublin Distress
23 Dec 1924Further details of the comprehensive scheme of works prepared by the Dublin Borough Commissioners for the relief of unemployment, for which the Government has allocated £45,000 to be expended in wages before March 31,…
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Letter from the Minister for local Government
25 Feb 1925The following letter has been received by P.S. O’Dubhghaill T.D., from the Minister for Local Government, in reply to an inquiry relative to the providing of relief work. Ministry of Local Government, Upper Merrion St.,…
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Dublin Relief Works
26 Feb 1925£45.000 To Be Spent. (From Our Reporter). Dublin, Wednesday.—The Commissioners of the Dublin Corporation have received the sanction to the expenditure of a grant of £45.000, out of an applied…
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Around and about St. Patrick’s Cathedral
14 Apr 1929In his splendid story of O’ Connell and Catholic Emancipation Mr. Michael Donagh quotes the Liberator as stating:—”It was the Union which stirred me to come forward in politics, I…
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Canal may be closed soon
2 Oct 1963The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Blaney, may soon be asked by Dublin Corporation to introduce legislation to enable the Corporation to close 5 miles of the Grand Canal, from…
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Letters to the editor – The Grand Canal
15 Nov 1963Letters to the Editor THE GRAND CANAL A Chara— With reference to the remarks of W. A. Newman in your edition of the 9th Inst., I wonder if he is…
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Combating Floods in Dublin
30 Nov 1965THE possibility of joint proposals from the Corporation and the Dublin Co. Council to deal with flooding in Dublin was mentioned by the City Manager, Mr. M. Macken, at the…
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Deputy Lemass will not submit to threats
30 Nov 1967Sir – In July 1961 approval in principle was recommended by the Streets Committee of the Dublin, Corporation to a proposal to use the line of the Grand Canal for…
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Poddle Poses Problem
27 Jun 1969CONTRACTORS who will start on Monday morning to reconstruct Patrick Street will have a problem. They will uncover for the first time in centuries the Poddle River. The river runs…
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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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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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High time for action
10 Oct 1970The National Waterways Conservation Association have asked Dublin Corporation to set up a special Department to deal with the increasing pollution of Dublin rivers and waterways. A spokesman for the…
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Scheme to deal with Poddle river flooding
11 Jan 1972The Department of Local Government is to be asked to approve a £35.000 Dublin Corporation scheme to deal with persistent flooding along the Poddle River during heavy rainfall. Assistant City…
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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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Found-The Missing River Poddle
13 May 1973Found..The Missing Poddle My discovery of the week was that the River Poddle still flows above ground in the heart of Old Dublin. The members of the Old Dublin Society…
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Storms Trail of Havoc Grows Longer
30 Dec 1978Storms’ Trail of Havoc Grows Longer STORMS continued to create havoc yesterday, particularly in the east of the country. Houses were flooded when the Poddle river burst its banks at…
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Polluted river ‘gave girl gangrene’
10 Oct 197912-year-old girl has contracted “Gas gangrene” — a rare and serious medical condition — from Dublin’s heavily polluted Poddle river, it was alleged yesterday. The polluted river, which flows through…
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Poddle surfaces in garden
30 Nov 1985Dublin’s Poddle River — which runs much of its course underground and once supplied the old city’s water needs — claimed a suburban garden yesterday. An astonished Mrs. Maureen Cooke opened the front…
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Culverting of Poddle River at Kimmage Road Lower
23 May 1986CULVERTING OF PODDLE RIVER AT KIMMAGE ROAD LOWER TENDERS are invited from competent Civil Engineering Contractors for the construction of a pre-cast concrete culvert over a length of 250 metres and ancillary works at Kimmage fload Lower, Dublin 6. Tender -Documents may be obtained…
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CULVERTING OF PODDLE RIVER AT KIMMAGE ROAD LOWER
20 Jun 1986CULVERTING OF PODDLE RIVER AT KIMMAGE ROAD LOWER The period for submission of tenders for this contract has been extended. The new closing date Is 12 noon on Friday, 18th July, 1986.
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Notices to Motorist-South City-Grafton Street
23 Jan 1988Notice to Motorists — South City-Grafton Street To facilitate the culverting of the Poddle River, at Kimmage to close to vehicular traffic, the section of Grafton Street from Chatham Street…
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Cllrs Oppose Plans on Poddle Cover Up
19 May 1993PLANS to put more of Dublin’s Poddle River underground are being opposed by city councillors. The Corporation is evaluating tenders for the erection of concrete culverts over a section of…
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City painter inspired by drains project
17 Mar 1995Artist’s life in the gutter Corporation carpenter Frank Connolly, who shares the site with Michael, approves of his new artistic colleague. He says the ‘drainage work “is the kind of…
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€7m work on Poddle protect 800 homes
11 Sep 2019Sean McCarthaigh MORE than 800 homes on Dublin’s southside are to get improved flood protection with planned upgrade of defences on the River Poddle. Work on the €7m project, funded…
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