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Is there a staircase inside the Wellington Monument in the Phoenix Park?

  • 25-08-2011 11:49am
    #1
    Stripey Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 741 ✭✭✭


    I think I remember a door when I was child. Is there a staircase to the top?

    Is it somehow connected to the railway underneath the park?


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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    How is this a conspiracy theory? You'd be better off asking in the Dublin Forum.


  • #3
    Stripey Cat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Stripey Cat


    I guess it's not really a conspiracy thoery, but there is the whole Mysterious Obilisk thing, so I thought someone might know.


  • #4
    jargon buster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭jargon buster


    but there is the whole Mysterious Obilisk thing
    mmmm...yes the whole 3 day ban thing :rolleyes:


  • #5
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,826 ✭✭✭phill106


    from wikipedia

    A Dublin legend suggests that a fund-raising dinner was held in the vault under the pillar in 1820, after which the vault was sealed up, leaving the dining tables and chairs behind. Several weeks later it was noticed that a butler had not been seen since the dinner, and it was assumed that he had drunk too much wine and remained unconscious and unnoticed behind a screen while the room was being sealed.


  • #6
    jackiebaron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    phill106 wrote: »
    from wikipedia

    A Dublin legend suggests that a fund-raising dinner was held in the vault under the pillar in 1820, after which the vault was sealed up, leaving the dining tables and chairs behind. Several weeks later it was noticed that a butler had not been seen since the dinner, and it was assumed that he had drunk too much wine and remained unconscious and unnoticed behind a screen while the room was being sealed.


    "Well" that was a "monumental" fückup. Guess he got the world's largest headstone.

    Always despised that ugly cenotaph anyway. It should be dynamited and let the lovely Fionn Uisce deer roam around there.


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  • #7
    Mahatma coat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    Ah here now, theres many more Eyesores to be dynamited before that one ;)

    I always loved the legend about the top of it.

    apparently it was supposed to be about 5M taller as a monument to one of Irelands greatest Military commanders, howevber around that stage in construction someone asked Wellington about his Irish Heritage and he responded

    'Just because one is Born in a Stable it does not make one a Horse'

    the Construction was abrubtly halted at that point :D:D:D:D


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