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Before Dublin Was Inhabited!

  • 20-08-2010 10:40am
    #1
    patrickbrophy18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭


    Just as a matter of interest, before Dublin was at all inhabited was it swamp land?

    Is this the correct forum to go to?:D


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  • #2
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Yes on both.

    If you want the long version, read this book. The first or second chapter talks about pre-medieval Dublin.

    Short version; lots of conduits of rivers which are all underground now, the place was more very silty in those days, probably just one big giant salt-marsh and tidal mudflat. The closest we can find out what it might have looked like is in John Speed's map of Dublin.


  • #3
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Is there anything about here anywhere i wonder what it would look like here back then?


  • #4
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    owenc wrote: »
    Is there anything about here anywhere i wonder what it would look like here back then?

    Sorry I have no idea what you are talking about? Can you rephrase your question. The Liffey was a very wide river before inhabitation and the poddle also flowed through where Dublin Castle is now. Where Temple Bar is now was the river I think


  • #5
    ManAboutCouch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭ManAboutCouch


    It's not quite complete, but you might find this visualisation of Dublin's Coastline from 1000AD to the Present useful:

    http://dublinstreams.com/coast/redoubt.htm


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