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Stream in Donaghmede

  • 11-07-2007 5:12am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭


    Did they use to be a river/stream that mainly went along the line of the green area in donaghmede that starts from the howth junction station parrarllel to the kilbarrack road, past the donaghies and over the malahide road ?

    if so where it gone?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Maybe they covered it to stop people / things ending up in it.

    I think its the Santry River, BTW.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,416 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Victor wrote:
    Maybe they covered it to stop people / things ending up in it.

    I think its the Santry River, BTW.

    No, that's the one that goes down by Northside shopping centre, through Cadburys and UCI, think it empties into see after pasing through St Anne's. Not sure what river the OP is referring to although there is one that passes through Belcamp College, not sure where it goes from there, think it heads underground. This is the border between Dublin City and Fingal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    The stream was called the Danaugh Water and can be dated back to 1656. It was piped and the land filled in during the 1970s.I lived there at the time and remember it well. (1970 not 1656)! It originally flowed through part of the gardens of a house called 'The Beeches'. The house was owned by Hector Grey. AFAIK the stream is still there, running through pipes underground. It could have made part of a nice park if it had been properly developed.
    But that is what our planners call progress !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    I lived in the beeches and yes there used to be a stream there and is now coverd in, now has build over and is now a green area.



    -VB-


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    jos28 wrote:
    The stream was called the Danaugh Water and can be dated back to 1656. It was piped and the land filled in during the 1970s.I lived there at the time and remember it well. (1970 not 1656)! It originally flowed through part of the gardens of a house called 'The Beeches'. The house was owned by Hector Grey. AFAIK the stream is still there, running through pipes underground. It could have made part of a nice park if it had been properly developed.
    But that is what our planners call progress !

    thanks for the info

    its strange that they should cover up these things water is what defines a landscape... why destroy and hide it.... if you look at map it looks strange that there's no river in that area...

    I saw a very old map of dublin that I think had a scirbble indicating a stream that went from around priorswood passed the beeches to kilbarrack and seems to follow the same line as the stream thats still there at seagrange park and onto the same outflow as the mayne.

    I have street map from 2000 that shows it partly still.

    hmm can find nothing on the google about it, I wonder what it would be called in council documents


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    I got my info from a brilliant book that belonged to my Dad. Its called 'Green fields gone forever' by Douglas S. Appleyard, ISBN 0 951077406.
    It covers the area from Coolock, Kilmore, Tonlegee, Donaghmede, Edenmore, Raheny etc. It is filled with the history and pictures of the beautiful big houses in the area and packed with interesting stuff.
    The map that they reference is Ordance Survey Map, sheet 14/15, 1937 edition. Permit no 4492. Hope this helps. Feel free to post or pm me and I can look things up in the book for you or scan pages to you. Well worth trying to source a copy of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    there is another river the 'mayne' that was put through a tunnel and filled in in the 80's


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Yeah,the stream was called The Donough water.When donaghemede was built first it was visible from streamville to st donagh's estate.The last section at the Beeches was culverted in in the 1980's because local residents were "concerned" that one of their kids would fall in and drown,not that it was deep enough to drown anybody.I was really annoyed when that happend,it was a picturesque stream and it added a bit of character to the area.Likewise St Donagh's well whichw as located near howth junction train station was covered over in the late 60's because it was judged to be a drowning hazard.There was a large pond in the grounds of Newgrove house (we just called it "The Mansion") and nobody ever drowned in that.It too was destroyed to make way for the Clare Hall development and its worth noting that an attractive walled orchard was also razed along with every tree in the entire area.Progress.:(


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Collie D wrote:
    No, that's the one that goes down by Northside shopping centre, through Cadburys and UCI, think it empties into see after pasing through St Anne's. Not sure what river the OP is referring to although there is one that passes through Belcamp College, not sure where it goes from there, think it heads underground. This is the border between Dublin City and Fingal.

    The santry river actually doesnt pass through St Annes,it runs through Santry,Edenmore,Coolock,Raheny village and on through Watermill estate and Bettyglen.It enters the sea just beside the causeway on the coast.

    The stream running through St Annes is called the Nanniken River.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭gracehopper


    Degsy wrote:
    The santry river actually doesnt pass through St Annes,it runs through Santry,Edenmore,Coolock,Raheny village and on through Watermill estate and Bettyglen.It enters the sea just beside the causeway on the coast.

    The stream running through St Annes is called the Nanniken River.

    I always thought they were the same river. no?

    EDIT:
    Fair play to you. You know you local history. I'd love a good book on the area. Cant seem to find the one mentioned on the thread. Done a project on the dublin 5 area in school when i was a kid. I love hearing about how the place used to be.

    cheers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    Try Raheny library. they have a lot of local history stuff.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    That book is long out of print and there's very few copies knocking around.Your best bet would be to put an ad in buy and sell to see if anybody has one.There's also a few other books of local interest which you may be able to get hold of..The Meadow of the Bull by Dennis Mcintyre,The Barony Of Coolock by AS MagShamrain,Here Lyeth by the Grange abbey Restoration Commitee,Through Countless Ages(raheny) by Arthur Garret,Tales Of Old Baldoyle by Micheal Hurley.Obviously there are lots of local history books floating around but many had very short print runs and are hard to find..if anybody needs specialist help with matters of local history eg acess to maps etc PM me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,416 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Degsy wrote:
    It enters the sea just beside the causeway on the coast.

    The stream running through St Annes is called the Nanniken River.

    I know where you're talking about it emptying out but is that not St Anne's on opposite side of road? :confused:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Collie D wrote:
    I know where you're talking about it emptying out but is that not St Anne's on opposite side of road? :confused:

    No,thats actually Bettyglen,named after the big house thats still in there.St Anne's was huge estate owned by the Guiness family.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    there is another river the 'mayne' that was put through a tunnel and filled in in the 80's


    isn't most of that still there, I actually found a copy of the book for sale on line

    another map showed the naniken going all the way to finglas, I know the used to be finglas river that someone here mentioned before, Im not sure if thats the same one

    [/QUOTE]The last section at the Beeches was culverted in in the 1980's because local residents were "concerned" that one of their kids would fall in and drown,not that it was deep enough to drown anybody.

    if that wer true they'd get rid of the liffey it has got to be more then the whim of parents

    Ordance Survey Map, sheet 14/15, 1937 edition.
    where do you get old OS maps phoenix park, but would you be alllowed to copy em for amateur use?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    all around the beeches and down towards howth junction were filled in afaik, im sure


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Anybody know what the stream between St Assam's Ave/Park and Foxfield Road is called and where it empties?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭Lillyella


    I recall the stream in Donaghmede, really only in the Beeches estate, it was known locally (Well in the last 15 years) as "The Rat Stream". Might have something to do with its downfall?

    Really find the local history really interesting though, thanks for the above.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    isn't most of that still there, I actually found a copy of the book for sale on line

    another map showed the naniken going all the way to finglas, I know the used to be finglas river that someone here mentioned before, Im not sure if thats the same one



    if that wer true they'd get rid of the liffey it has got to be more then the whim of parents

    Ordance Survey Map, sheet 14/15, 1937 edition.
    where do you get old OS maps phoenix park, but would you be alllowed to copy em for amateur use?

    The Mayne is largely still there.It rises in co Meath and enters the sea near portmarnock,there's a pumphouse on the main road.The area they're calling Belmayne gets its name from the river.If you get the train from drogheda it passes over a very impressive red-brick bridge just before howth junction,the land was originally owned by the Morrow family and the people who owned Stapolin house.There's another river which enters teh sea at the bridge leading into portmarnock and if you look on the seward side y ou can clearly see the remains of stone built fish traps.

    I dont think the naniken goes to finglas.The stream that gives finglas its name "Fionn-Glas" or Clear Stream enters the tolka just beyond the royal oak,its visble only for a short section beyond premier square.Chances are they'll culvert it too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    I used to play in that stream at the back of hector greys as a lad. dont remember it being dangerous at all. It was only ever a foot or two deep. I think Lillyella hit the nail on head though. People these days seem very skittish about stuff like Weils disease. Never did us any harm :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Lillyella wrote:
    I recall the stream in Donaghmede, really only in the Beeches estate, it was known locally (Well in the last 15 years) as "The Rat Stream". Might have something to do with its downfall?

    Really find the local history really interesting though, thanks for the above.

    It's nice to know the real name after all these years (someone mentioned it above). But locally it was known as "The Rat River" even though it was just a stream.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I dont think we ever called it anything.Does anybody remember the fire at Hector's warehouse and there was a free for all of half-burned toys and playing cards that were stuck together?Useless scumbags from St Donagh's started the fire and a few years later tried to burn the man's house down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    Degsy wrote:
    I dont think we ever called it anything.Does anybody remember the fire at Hector's warehouse and there was a free for all of half-burned toys and playing cards that were stuck together?Useless scumbags from St Donagh's started the fire and a few years later tried to burn the man's house down.
    I remember that ... I was too young to participate, but there was a procession of yobs from Kilbarrack and Donaghmede trooping out of the warehouse with their grubby paws full of looted knick-knacks. For weeks afterwards the same halfwits were trying to sell moody alarm clocks, tea towels, bin liners and clothes pegs door to door. That must be nearly 30 years ago ... man I'm getting old. :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    trout wrote:
    That must be nearly 30 years ago ... man I'm getting old. :eek:
    I am MUCH older and I can remember Kennedys house. It was a fabulous house and was owned by the people that owned Kennedy's Bakeries.
    It was situated where The Donahies is now. I can remember the day the bulldozers moved in to knock it down. All of our neighbours (and my Dad) went up and 'rescued' some of the plants in the magnificent gardens. They were all re-planted in our gardens. And all of this was done with the tree- fellers and bulldozers hot on their heels. Could not be classified as theft, cos the stuff would have been flattened !I have a photo of the house somewhere. Will post it if I find it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    jos28 wrote:
    I am MUCH older and I can remember Kennedys house. It was a fabulous house and was owned by the people that owned Kennedy's Bakeries.
    It was situated where The Donahies is now. I can remember the day the bulldozers moved in to knock it down. All of our neighbours (and my Dad) went up and 'rescued' some of the plants in the magnificent gardens. They were all re-planted in our gardens. And all of this was done with the tree- fellers and bulldozers hot on their heels. Could not be classified as theft, cos the stuff would have been flattened !I have a photo of the house somewhere. Will post it if I find it.

    That house was actually called "The Donahies" wasnt it?If you have a pic i'd really love to see it.Do you remember St Donagh's holy well?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    Can't remember the actual well at St Donaghs, only a fake one in someones garden. Found the photo,(not a great one).The house was built in 1745. It's original name was Newbrook House and was changed to The Donaghies about 100 years later.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Thats a great pic.God knows how many people live in the area and never knew a house stood there..actually i rememebr reading something about it in one of the books in my work..i'll check it later.Do you remember Grangemore house which is where Haughy used to live before he bought Abbeyville?I just about remember them cutting down the last of the trees that formed the avenue sometime in the early 70's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    Was Haugheys house just up from Kennedys, near where the church is now?
    I can remember a house with a thatched roof, don't know if that was it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    jos28 wrote:
    Was Haugheys house just up from Kennedys, near where the church is now?
    I can remember a house with a thatched roof, don't know if that was it.

    Yeah,in from the main road..dunno if it had a thatched roof though.Then there was Donaghmede house on the opposite side of the road,owned by the Morrow family,its still there as well.There was a holy well in the grounds of Donaghmede apparantly,you washed in St Donagh's well on st John's eve and then rinsed off in the well at Donaghmede House.Newbrook House was built on the site of an old abbey and there was some sort of castle at Sutton cross too.
    http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/cgi-bin/viewsite.cgi?siteid=2516

    http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/cgi-bin/viewsite.cgi?siteid=2508


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Wow, this is a fascinating thread guys. I'm from Coolock, just behind the Garda Station, and I now live in the Apartments next to the Hilton Hotel on the N32 (my apartment touches the hotel).

    Of course I knew about the Santry River, but I never knew all of these other streams existed. Nice to know.

    Does the Mayne actually flow through the Belmayne development? They have some nice plans for parkland in there, be nice if they uncovered a part of the stream for this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    seansouth wrote:
    Wow, this is a fascinating thread guys.

    I think Degsy should give classes in local history.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    seansouth wrote:
    Wow, this is a fascinating thread guys. I'm from Coolock, just behind the Garda Station, and I now live in the Apartments next to the Hilton Hotel on the N32 (my apartment touches the hotel).

    Of course I knew about the Santry River, but I never knew all of these other streams existed. Nice to know.

    Does the Mayne actually flow through the Belmayne development? They have some nice plans for parkland in there, be nice if they uncovered a part of the stream for this.

    As far as i know there's no plans to culvert the river so its still visible at he moment at any rate.You can see where it meets the sea at baldoyle,slightly down from the racecourse at a pumphouse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    Degsy wrote:
    I dont think the naniken goes to finglas.The stream that gives finglas its name "Fionn-Glas" or Clear Stream enters the tolka just beyond the royal oak,its visble only for a short section beyond premier square.Chances are they'll culvert it too.


    sorry I was trying to remember the one between the santry and the tolka that could be all called the naniken with only the st annes bit left... its on this map starting near jamestown going through ballymun santry artane and raheny

    http://www.joyceimages.com/images/Map%20Dublin%20Environs.JPG


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Yep thats it..i had no idea it was so long.You can also clearly see teh Donough Water on that map,it seems to rise at Bonnybrook House..But it doesnt flow into the sea at the end of the kilbarrack road like i t hought,it flows northwards towards baldoyle and joins the Mayne river at the back of Stapolin House.This is strange,it also means that that river would've been visible at Seagrange park up untill very recently.I wonder is there any of it left?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    That is a fantastic, interesting map there, thanks so much for posting that.

    What is the river south of the Santry River flowing from Balcuriss House, past Jamestown House, on then south of Coolock and through to St Ann's, into the sea between Raheny and Dollymount?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Just thought I'd add my 2c, the part of the river that passed the Beeches was covered over in the 90's (mid) as far as I remember. I hung around with a guy that lived beside it and we used to pass it on the way home from school every day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Great thread, sorry if this has been answered already.

    On the border between Donnycarney and Artane (besides Statoil on Malahide Road, there is Donnycarney Bridge
    This is a plaque showing when the bridge was built. I don’t know the exact date but it’s probably 19th century afaik.

    What river flows under this small bridge as none in visible in Donnycarney to the West and Killester to the East?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Oh my god micmclo, I came back to ask about that very bridge :)

    I was wondering too why the river doesn't seem to be on the map. Strange one. Perhaps the stream was covered before the map was made?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    seansouth wrote:
    That is a fantastic, interesting map there, thanks so much for posting that.

    What is the river south of the Santry River flowing from Balcuriss House, past Jamestown House, on then south of Coolock and through to St Ann's, into the sea between Raheny and Dollymount?

    Thats the Nanniken River.There was also a river that flowed under Ballymun called the Wadd Water,it was culverted in Red Brick and could be seen briefly when The new main street at ballymun was being built.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    You're great Degsy:)

    Any info on the river/bridge in Donnycarney?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    seansouth wrote:
    You're great Degsy:)

    Any info on the river/bridge in Donnycarney?

    Just waiting on the map librarian to get back from a meeting,should have something for ya then!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Cool.

    You should run tours etc. I'd help.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    seansouth wrote:
    Cool.

    You should run tours etc. I'd help.

    Need to do more research first though.Now,i've found that stream,its almost certainly the Nanniken river,which rises at Santry in an area just left of Santry avenue,under what is now Shanliss.It continues through beaumont,artane,donneycarney,killester,under the howth road and flows through st annes park.
    Here's some details of the Donough Water,taken from before it was culverted.
    The stream has a narrow catchment of 1080 acres withtwo main outfalls at killbarrack.It rises south of Turnapin on the swords road,just east of the santry bypass and has a west-east catchment bounded on the north by the Mayne and Grange river catchments and the Santry river and Blackbanks stream catchments on the south.It flows to Clonshaugh Industrial estate and on to Clonshaugh Road then to Priorswood and Newberry,Fairfield,Ferrycarrig,Darndale south,north of the Greencastle Coolock industrial estate to Newtown bridge then the ne Malahide road.From here it goes through Slademore and Clonrosse to millbrook road.It continues eastwards paralleling north of Tonlagee and Kilbarrack roads to Streamville Rd and teh Beeches to Grange road and north to the seperation point of the two outfalls.The Diversion pipe takes about 180 acres out of the main catchment of the stream and going southward over to teh Kilbarrack road it then runs along this road under the Dart rail,with Priorfield and Thornville on its south-right,past Sarto estate to outfall on the east coast of the pumping station and by the Pressure Culvert of the N.D.D.S to the sutt=on foreshore.From the diversion point it passessouth of Donaghmede and comes to the Dart rail at Howth Junction,it crosses under the station and makes its way to bayside Square West,turns sharply southward and towards the exit to the Howth-Dublin Road.It passes under the Dublin road,the promenade and teh NDDS pressure culvert sewer.The sutton foreshore recieves the runoff flow fromn the straem catchment at this point 310 metres north of Killbarrack road.The toal lenght of the stream hidden from view is 5 miles.A holy Well of St Donagh was situated at Donaghmede beside the stream,described as a small pool about 15 feet in diameter overhung by an ash tree.The devotions happened her on st John's eveSt Donagh is credited with bringing the first honey bees to ireland.The well was finally avoided because of alcohol abuse.
    There was also a small sctream to the north called teh Grange Stream which passed through Grangemore,Grange abbey and Donaghmede where it was open,through Baldpyle industrial estate in a piped course,Abbey park and Seagrange road to the new ChurchIt travels under Willie Nolan road to Main Street and Strand Road in Baldoyle ,south of St peter and paul church to discharge onto the sand of Portmarnock sea channel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    the st donaghs scobies robbed it


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    heres a map of dublin watercourses,hope its readable


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Degsy wrote:
    Need to do more research first though.
    :cool:

    Please don't take the folowing the wrong way, please don't, I am most definitely not trying to get at you in any way, but I do have a very nitpicky personality. So apologies in advance if I cause offence.

    You really are one of the most knowledgeable and interesting people I've come accross on Boards by the way, fair play to you, keep it up.:)
    Degsy wrote:
    Now,i've found that stream,its almost certainly the Nanniken river,which rises at Santry in an area just left of Santry avenue,under what is now Shanliss.It continues through beaumont,artane,donneycarney,killester,under the howth road and flows through st annes park.
    You said earlier that the
    ME wrote:
    the river south of the Santry River flowing from Balcuriss House, past Jamestown House, on then south of Coolock and through to St Ann's, into the sea between Raheny and Dollymount?
    was the Nanniken.

    Now, I'm just harking back to that old map posted earlier, and I realise It may be a bit off, but it doesn't seem to be for the other rivers, but the course of the Nanniken on that map puts it too far North to run under that bridge at Donnycarney Church?

    Weird.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    seansouth wrote:
    :cool:

    Please don't take the folowing the wrong way, please don't, I am most definitely not trying to get at you in any way, but I do have a very nitpicky personality. So apologies in advance if I cause offence.

    You really are one of the most knowledgeable and interesting people I've come accross on Boards by the way, fair play to you, keep it up.:)


    You said earlier that the

    was the Nanniken.

    Now, I'm just harking back to that old map posted earlier, and I realise It may be a bit off, but it doesn't seem to be for the other rivers, but the course of the Nanniken on that map puts it too far North to run under that bridge at Donnycarney Church?

    Weird.

    Okay,my b ad on this one.The river in question is actually the Wad.It runs near enough to the Nanniken to cause confusion on a smaller map.It rises southeast of meakstown in popintree,west of ballymun flats to ballymun Cross Roads near Wad bridge.It seperates into two channels one of which leads into the Tolka,the other one is fed by a number of smaller streams and continues under Ellenfield road and trough Beaumont Grove,it crosses Beaumont road in an 8'x4' stone arch at Doyles bridge,to the grounds of Thorndale on the north and the Vetinary Reasearch laboratory on the south.The river then crosses the Celtic Park Road,goes along the back gardens north of tthe Collins Park houses and south of Elmount Ave houses for 700 metres then through the cul-de-sac at t he east end and on to DONNEYCARNEY BRIDGE(formerly Scurlogues Bridge).From there the river heads for the northern front gardens of Collins Avenue east opposite the curch and through Victoria park into Clontarf Golf Club grounds.It eventually flows under the Howth road and enters the ornamental grounds beside "Glaslyn".Passing through the apartment site on the south and under the garda station the river goes under the Clontarf Road in a box culvert under the grass park and dischrges into the sea at clontarf foreshore 380 metres east of the Clontarf railway Bridge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    That's excellent, thanks Degsy.

    Howth Road you say, I wonder if the Well in Harry Byrne's taps into this River, sounds like it could.

    That stone arch you referred to that takes it accross the Beaumount Road, would you think this is visible if one was to head down the Beaumount Road? Doyle's bridge? Wonder where that is.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    seansouth wrote:
    That's excellent, thanks Degsy.

    Howth Road you say, I wonder if the Well in Harry Byrne's taps into this River, sounds like it could.

    That stone arch you referred to that takes it accross the Beaumount Road, would you think this is visible if one was to head down the Beaumount Road? Doyle's bridge? Wonder where that is.

    Unless they've completly re-designed the Beaumont road it should still be visible.The river crosses at the point where Beaumont grove meets Beaumont Road,on the left-hand sidse if you face inland,so coming from town it should be just before the entrance to beaumont grove...damn i'm curious myself now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,220 ✭✭✭jos28


    Degsy,
    Great work ! I am printing all your stuff and keeping it for future reference. If anyone ever asks- I will have all the answers, thanks to yourself.
    Cheers !


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