The River Poddle
22 Apr 2010Forget the Liffey: the Poddle is the reason our whole city is here. This river, which rises in the Dublin mountains, provided drinking water for early settlers and even formed the dubh linn, a dark pool of water which gave us our name. As the city grew, it was forced underground and now runs beneath the south city and Dublin Castle. It emerges at Wellington Quay – so the grate you see there is not a sewer pipe. In case you ever wondered. Interestingly, much of the lower length of the Poddle is in a large brick tunnel; you can actually walk along it for almost three miles from Harold’s Cross to the quays. In the 1990s, D6W locals were surprised to see their gardens suddenly sink by 10 feet; it was actually due to the collapse of these underground Poddle tunnels.
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