Industrial Liberties

Industrial Liberties

21 Jan 1973

LIAM took his stand to make this drawing just about where Dowker’s Lane comes in from the right, to meet Blackpitts. In the distance you can see the silvery outlines of the Matlings above New Row (“K.Y.D.,” 7-11-73), while on the left are the gable ends of houses in Warrenmouth Place and Dowker’s Lane comes In on the right, Blackpitts is mainly an industrial area today, Indeed, it has always been so, and the name (found in 1728 on Brooking’s map) may refer to the many seasoning pits used by tanneries along this part of the Poddle’s branch course through the Liberty of Thomas Court and Donore. Dowker’s, or pucker’s Lane seems to have originally been Tucker’s Lane (“K.Y.D.,” 1-1-71), but a more recent name is Warrenmount. This comes from Nathaniel Warren, Lord Mayor in 1782, also an M.P. for Dublin City, a by-gone magnate, who was also said to be a friend of the notorious Sham Squire, and a partner with him in the equally notorious gambling house “The Sham,” maintained in defiance of the law, near the site of the modern Dolphin Hotel.

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