The Dublin rivers that vanished from sight

The Dublin rivers that vanished from sight

14 Aug 1984

THE PODDLE RIVER was the most important to old Dublin. It came down from above Tallaght, through Templeogue and Kimmage and Harold’s Cross, through the Coombe, and Bride Street, to the Liffey below Cork Hill. You can see the heavy iron grating in the quay wall below Wellington Quay, where the Poddle enters the Liffey. In its time the Poddle supplied water to Dublin’s households, served numerous mills and was the great industrial river of the city, and for long the only water supply for Dublin’s citizens. When the city fathers turned to new ideas for water supplies, and mills and tanneries in Dublin declined, the Poddle was gradually arched ever, its banks neglected, its streams becoming hidden. It still flows from the hills to the Liffey, but many people are unaware of its existence.

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