Beside the Poddle

Beside the Poddle

31 Dec 1970

Liams drawing shows a quiet little oasis within a stones throw of the historic Poddle, the group of old houses in Loader (or Loder) Park, adjoining former mills on the Poddle, at the southern end of Mount Argus Road. This is now a Cul-De-Sac, but according to a map of Dublin and environs, issued in 1834, there was then a bridge over the Poddle, by which you could get back from thr Mount Argus Roadto the present Kimmage Road. The mill here seems to date from about 1830. It was later owned by a Captain Harvey, who leased it to a James Whelan, as a flour mill. Mr. Whelan had a shop at 13 Thomas Street, in the 1880s. A generation later, the mill is owned by a Mrs. Fanagan, but does not seem to be working. The name Loder, or Loader, came originallky from Dorset and does not appear to have an Irish connection.

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