We growl often about the rain
We growl often about the rain
18 Sep 1962CAPEL STREET Bridge is of Kippure Mountain, where it is easy to find, being only a short walk from O’Connell Bridge. Well near it you will see water coming out of a kind of sewer in the river wall. Sad to say, that is a famous river called the Poddle. It rises out near Tallaght, and at one time supplied water for the monastery there.
CAM UISCE, or Crooked Stream, was another name for the Poddle; and some think that !the name Kimmage comes from Cam Uisce. It does flow through Kimmage, and Harold’s Cross, and at one time supplied water to [fill the ditch or moate around Dublin Castle. It was a real waterway; and I remember reading how a Bishop escaped from the castle in a boat on the Poddle. DUBLIN WATER in the very early times (700 years ago) was supplied from that Poddle. Later on as many as thirty-two mills had their wheels turned by the same poor river. Nowadays :the stuff that flows out at Capel Street Bridge does not look too nice. But then, even in the 13th century (700 years ago) it was called Glascholach: from the Irish “Glas” — a Stream, and “Salach”—dirty. It may improve yet, as I hoped yesterday.
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