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secret tunnels

  • 12-06-2012 8:31am
    #1
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭


    does anyone know anything about a secret tunnel that ran under the customs house into the Monto? Is is still there? Apparently part of it was discovered in Talbot street.


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  • #2
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Old thread Here might get some info

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  • #3
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    uch wrote: »
    Old thread Here might get some info

    thanks for that. the thread seems to be about every tunnel in the country save the one I am looking for.


  • #4
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Ah yes, there was a story that there was a tunnel that ran from Custom House Quay up to the Monto

    It was expected that sailors would head up there

    But it wouldn't do for officers and gentlemen to be seen around there so they had a tunnel

    It was just a story, there was no tunnel

    As for Talbot Street, all around that area had storage room underground.
    There were and still are cellars on O'Connell St that extend halfway across the street.
    Whatever they found, I bet it was just a merchants storage space


  • #5
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Ah yes, there was a story that there was a tunnel that ran from Custom House Quay up to the Monto

    It was expected that sailors would head up there

    But it wouldn't do for officers and gentlemen to be seen around there so they had a tunnel

    It was just a story, there was no tunnel

    As for Talbot Street, all around that area had storage room underground.
    There were and still are cellars on O'Connell St that extend halfway across the street.
    Whatever they found, I bet it was just a merchants storage space


    interesting, I first heard about this tunnel on Nationwide few years back. I will have to read up and see what Pat Liddy has to say. There are holes in the wall of the Quay. i thought they might lead somewhere.


  • #6
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The books by Terry Fagan and the Inner City Folklore Archive deal with these too.


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  • #7
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    The tunnel does exist but it served as an air vent funnelling cold air from the river into the basement pantries of the Georgian mansions to create a primitive fridge effect. Stories about it being an escape route for the aristocracy or a discrete entrance to the redlight district are nonsense-Montgomery St only slipped into notoriety 100 years after these buildings were erected.


  • #8
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    And there's the other 'story' of there being a tunnel to the Monto from what is now the Hugh Lane Gallery for one of the Earls of Charlemont to travel without being seen to satisfy their 'urges'.


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