Dublin 15 Historic Pictures Thread

chucknorris

ChannelNo5 wrote: »

Anybody remember the Twin Oaks? It was on the old Navan Road, where Bradys is now? It had long display windows with bottles and tankards etc displayed in. there never seemed to be anybody in it.it looked a bit like a Roadhouse?

I have a photo of it somewhere. Remember it as a kid before it was demolished. Also remember the old stables at the foot of the Navan road bridge to Castleknock.

ChannelNo5

chucknorris wrote: »

I have a photo of it somewhere. Remember it as a kid before it was demolished. Also remember the old stables at the foot of the Navan road bridge to Castleknock.

Aw could you post it if you can dig it out please? when i was young it always fascinated me. i'm not sure why! I have a vague memory of thinking it was exotic!! :P I had a very sheltered life obviously!!

chucknorris

ChannelNo5 wrote: »

Aw could you post it if you can dig it out please? when i was young it always fascinated me. i'm not sure why! I have a vague memory of thinking it was exotic!! :P I had a very sheltered life obviously!!

I only remember it because me Da worked in the place that sold wood from the old stables at the bridge near bridge cycles.

amdublin

Wow! Don't remember that place at all!

oblivious

chucknorris wrote: »

I only remember it because me Da worked in the place that sold wood from the old stables at the bridge near bridge cycles.

Ah yeah i remember it, always though there was something of American truck stop about it

ChannelNo5

oblivious wrote: »

Ah yeah i remember it, always though there was something of American truck stop about it

Yeah exactly that!

Finglas Incubus

chucknorris wrote: »

I only remember it because me Da worked in the place that sold wood from the old stables at the bridge near bridge cycles.

Are we talking about 'The Castleknock Inn', same place? I have scant recollection of being inside as a child - it was a bit of a kip with ripped seats and had one of those old wooden wall-mounted chocolate vending machines that used to do a great trade in Dairy Milks and Fruit n' Nuts...

Pat Dunne

Finglas Incubus wrote: »

Are we talking about 'The Castleknock Inn', same place? I have scant recollection of being inside as a child - it was a bit of a kip with ripped seats and had one of those old wooden wall-mounted chocolate vending machines that used to do a great trade in Dairy Milks and Fruit n' Nuts...

The very place.
Had a few great nights there, back in the day

Jebus Diced

amdublin wrote: »

Anyone know anything about the history of Clonsilla House??

suey71 wrote: »

I'd love to know a bit about the history of this house too.

Interesting read... https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/reshaping-a-historic-forge-on-the-auld-triangle-38971957.html

beauf

Jebus Diced wrote: »

Interesting read... https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/reshaping-a-historic-forge-on-the-auld-triangle-38971957.html

Fascinating thanks for posting. Enjoyed that.

Always thought that it's ruined a bit by the traffic and the road behind it. Be nicer if it was more sheltered by high trees etc. But I wasn't thinking of the positives especially how close to the station it is.

Jebus Diced

I don't know if 30 years is historic enough? but here is a link to the construction of the M50 bridge (30 years ago this month) with pics and videos.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/history/west-link-bridge-opened-30-17640494

daymobrew

Jebus Diced wrote: »

I don't know if 30 years is historic enough? but here is a link to the construction of the M50 bridge (30 years ago this month) with pics and videos.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/history/west-link-bridge-opened-30-17640494

I remember when the M50 was being built - the Castleknock Road between Park Drive and Laurel Lodge was temporarily rerouted to a temporary bridge.

I also remember borrowing my mum's car to drive along the M50 to The Square in Tallaght to go to the newly opened cinema there.

While in college (around 1991?) I worked part time in the West Link Toll Booths, cycling up to it via the service entrance off Luttrellstown Road. We had to let Gardai, Ambulances and Fire Engines through for free but note their reg plates. We also had people using the mobile phones that would barely put their hands out the window to give you the money. We responded by barely putting our hands out the booth window too :-)

Jebus Diced

I've been fascinated by this website https://www.duchas.ie/en
Enter a placename in the search bar for pictures, stories and transcripts
The Thatch Clonsilla... https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/52273
Info on the old Porterstown school... https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4498593/4385194/4509674
Etc.

Pat Dunne

From a different photographer Seamus Mac Phillib, taken in 1980 also with a Clonsilla connection anyone recognise the Gentleman or the house in the background?
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/53268

Jebus Diced

Pat Dunne wrote: »

From a different photographer Seamus Mac Phillib, taken in 1980 also with a Clonsilla connection anyone recognise the Gentleman or the house in the background?
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/53268

Joseph Thules outside his home in Orchard Lane, Clonsilla...
http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/1916/oral/26.html

Pat Dunne

Jebus Diced wrote: »

Joseph Thules outside his home in Orchard Lane, Clonsilla...
http://www.ucd.ie/folklore/1916/oral/26.html

Orchard Lane or Orchard Avenue, is also know to older Residents as Sprout Alley.

donaghs

chucknorris wrote: »

https://twitter.com/PhotosOfDublin/status/708049216929734657

anyone got a map of old bus routes? Did the 37 turn at Myo's and go down carpenterstown road ? (i.e. before Laurel Lodge existed).

eguiney

donaghs wrote: »

anyone got a map of old bus routes? Did the 37 turn at Myo's and go down carpenterstown road ? (i.e. before Laurel Lodge existed).

The 37 ended on Blackhorse Avenue until the early 1990s.
There was very little on the Carpenterstown Road before Laurel Lodge existed (and it was a bad road) so the nearest bus was on the Clonsilla Road.

Before the 37, there was a 39C into Laurel Lodge and Carpenterstown Park.

The 80 used to turn at Myo's and go down the Luttrellstown Road, finishing near Clonsilla Station.

beauf

eguiney wrote: »

...
There was very little on the Carpenterstown Road before Laurel Lodge existed (and it was a bad road) so the nearest bus was on the Clonsilla Road.....

It was a country lane/road. Fields all around.

Other the big house where Rosehaven is now.

Dunno if Malones Coal yard was always there.

donaghs

beauf wrote: »

It was a country lane/road. Fields all around.

Other the big house where Rosehaven is now.

Dunno if Malones Coal yard was always there.

Yes, but wasn't there an old bus stop until recently opposite Castleknock College (st. vincent's) on the carpenterstown road. And one near "The Glen" too? Maybe that was for the 80.

Looks like it was the 80 bus:

http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/?page_id=2079
Luttrellstown Bus
"I am doing a local history book and was just wondering if any one has a photo of the old Number 80 (Luttrellstown) bus which figured so largely in the lives of those living in Clonsilla, Strawberry Beds area especially, or even a photo of the bus type – it was red and cream and the interior seating had a grey gingham pattern.
Mary Reynolds"

https://reynoldshistorycastleknockblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/no-39-bus-local-history-castleknock/
"No. 39 bus coming from Blanchardstown and heading in the direction of Castleknock. Has anyone got a photo they’d like to share of the No. 80 ‘Luttrellstown bus’?"

Glen Stores: "Given all these services and the ‘hut’ alongside the shop, which served as a focal point for community gatherings, the shop became a nucleus in the neighbourhood. People out of reach of the bus route used to cycle to the shop, abandon their bicycles behind our hedge and catch the bus into town."

beauf

That bus went down porterstown road AFAIK.

Pat Dunne

donaghs wrote: »

anyone got a map of old bus routes? Did the 37 turn at Myo's and go down carpenterstown road ? (i.e. before Laurel Lodge existed).

No, the original 37 was from the Ashtown Roundabout, Navan Rd (Halfway House), turning right at Skreen Road, then left on to Blackhorse Ave, crossing the North Circular Road, onto Aughrim Street and the Manor Streer.
For some reason I have a recollection of a bus terminus in Villa Park Garden, Navan Rd, but I can’t join up the dots just yet. Possibly it could have an earlier 37 Terminus, before been extended to Ashtown, but I’m unsure.
The No.80 turned left at Myos, then right at Castleknock College and followed the Porterstown Rd, through the Sandpits past Porterstown Church, on to the Main Gates at Luttrellstown Castle, then turning right and over the Level Crossing at Clonsilla and stopping at it Terminus at Clonsilla Church Of Ireland, which was also Terminus for the 39A.

beauf

Back then all the villages, Castleknock, blanch, Clonsilla had considerable stretches of farmland between them. It wasn't endless housing estates merging into one another as it is now.

For example When you crossed the tracks at Coolmine you were in the countryside. Nothing but fields.

daymobrew

beauf wrote: »

That bus went down porterstown road AFAIK.

AFAIK Luttrellstown Road is the one that goes past Sandpits.
Poterstown Road goes by LCC.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.37267/-6.40655

beauf

daymobrew wrote: »

AFAIK Luttrellstown Road is the one that goes past Sandpits.
Poterstown Road goes by LCC.

I always knew it as Porterstown Road, its also that on Google though that is often wrong. its also given as Porterstown for a lot of addresses for example the Castleknock Hotel website. https://www.castleknockhotel.com/

But looking at maps its seems it should be Luttrellstown Road. I wonder whats porterstown link road (dr troy bridge to clonsilla rd) and whats porterstown road, officially.

daymobrew

beauf wrote: »

But looking at maps its seems it should be Luttrellstown Road. I wonder whats porterstown link road (dr troy bridge to clonsilla rd) and whats porterstown road, officially.

I think that Dr Troy Bridge is Diswellstown Road, the crossroads to Luttrellstown Road is Porterstown Link Road.

beauf

That seems to be what is on http://geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9def898f708b47f19a8d8b7088a100c4

Dantonio

This was for the 237 bus, part of the City Imp, local bus service. It was running in the 90s I think.

donaghs wrote: »

Yes, but wasn't there an old bus stop until recently opposite Castleknock College (st. vincent's) on the carpenterstown road. And one near "The Glen" too? Maybe that was for the 80.

ChannelNo5

The 37 originally had its terminus at villa park gardens before it then moved up to ashtown. There was only one Bus on the route that went in and out to town all day. We used to talk to the driver and conductor when they were taking their breaks at villa park.

Rosser

ChannelNo5 wrote: »

The 37 originally had its terminus at villa park gardens before it then moved up to ashtown. There was only one Bus on the route that went in and out to town all day. We used to talk to the driver and conductor when they were taking their breaks at villa park.

Yep the bus driver was Joe and the conductor was Noel, two absolute gentlemen.