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Odd question: Why is the crescent so called

  • 09-03-2012 10:00pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭


    whats the history behind it :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    There's a row of georgian houses between o'connell street and o'connell avenue in the shape of a crescent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭frank gallagher


    smcgiff wrote: »
    There's a row of georgian houses between o'connell street and o'connell avenue in the shape of a crescent

    sound, one of those little things that bugged me :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,915 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    The Crescent Shopping Centre is called crescent because of its proximity to Crescent Comp and old Crescent RFC.

    Crescent comp moved from The Crescent on O'Connell Street (formerly Richmond Place) in the 1970s I think.

    Crescent Comp used to be in where Tutorial is now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Jambo221


    Anyone know where you can see old pictures of The Crescent? I have vague memories of what it looked like when I was growing up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,532 ✭✭✭✭phog


    Jambo221 wrote: »
    Anyone know where you can see old pictures of The Crescent? I have vague memories of what it looked like when I was growing up.

    Which Crescent? The Crescent at O'Connell monument or the Crescent Shopping centre?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Jambo221


    phog wrote: »
    Which Crescent? The Crescent at O'Connell monument or the Crescent Shopping centre?
    The Shopping Centre, still half asleep here :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 yelofmail


    Jambo221 wrote: »
    Anyone know where you can see old pictures of The Crescent? I have vague memories of what it looked like when I was growing up.

    The County and City archives which are based in County buildings over by the Crescent would be a good place to start.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 stakerwallace


    yelofmail wrote: »
    The County and City archives which are based in County buildings over by the Crescent would be a good place to start.


    Plenty of pics on internetimages?q=tbn:ANd9GcRixKLcpRUIMJR22q9VESSOGaS0mU1C8tHdWPTIj-13PefGHV8NkQ:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    Muslim investors. It's shaped like a mosque too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,915 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    gaf1983 wrote: »
    Muslim investors. It's shaped like a mosque too.

    The resemblance is uncanny. :P

    seikh%20zayed%20mosque.JPG


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    The resemblance is uncanny. :P

    I doubt if it's true, but I remember a substitute religion teacher in secondary school mentioned this in passing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,915 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    gaf1983 wrote: »
    I doubt if it's true, but I remember a substitute religion teacher in secondary school mentioned this in passing.

    I heard that before aswell. Hard to believe.


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