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 River Poddle. It in no way adds to the beauty of the city, and in chiefly remarkable for flooding the basements and cellars in Patrick street before it finds its way into the Liffey at Wellington quay. This same Poddle, if we are to judge by the old chronicles of Dublin was an important landmark in the time of the Pale, and a meeting place for the washerwoman of the city in the times of the early Georges. Now built over and forgotten, except when in flood, it is no more than an evil-smelling drain, alike dangerous to life and property. The information, though interesting is hardly novel; and the real gem consists in describing a river a landmark”.
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