Signs on Killiney hill meaning ?

Supercell

We were walking up Killiney hill the other day and saw the signs below, anyone know what they represent?




The little fella is my son investigating the wild blackberries

ted1

Supercell wrote: »

We were walking up Killiney hill the other day and saw the signs below, anyone know what they represent?




The little fella is my son investigating the wild blackberries

There for the water mains. SV stands for sluice Valve.

For get what the others are, but they are water related.

Supercell

Thanks ted1, I suspected it was something to do with the reservoir up there, googling hasn't got me closer to a fuller description though.

RHJ

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Supercell

Great thanks RHJ!, that's two out of three so far. Any idea what the numbers refer to ? Something to do with elevation?

RHJ

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Rackstar

Numbers are diameter in millimeters

zagmund

I think you may have stumbled on the only thing that Google doesn't yet know. Perhaps the infrastructure-nerds over on the infrastructure forum might know be able to enlighten us.

I thought I was on to something with this - http://www.slatersigns.co.uk/acatalog/Hydrant_Signs.html - but sadly not. It does at least explain what the figures relate to.

If I was to give an uneducated guess, if demineralised is the good stuff, then perhaps RM is "raw main".

z

woejus

It's Sc V - Scour Valve, I think you open this and all the sediment and crap at the bottom of the main flies out

The top number is the diameter of the pipe. I think RHC means Right Hand Closing, as usually where it says RHC there's a number which states how far away the valve is

RM is rising main

DM is descending main


If you can find that location on http://maps.osi.ie/ you'll see the main coming up and down.

Supercell

woejus wrote: »

It's Sc V - Scour Valve, I think you open this and all the sediment and crap at the bottom of the main flies out

The top number is the diameter of the pipe. I think RHC means Right Hand Chamber, as usually where it says RHC there's a number which states how far away the valve is

RM is rising main

DM is descending main


If you can find that location on http://maps.osi.ie/ you'll see the main coming up and down.

Sounds like a man who knows his water mains!, thanks very much!!
I shall impart this impressive knowledge to my wife and watch herself throw her eyes skyward

Supercell

woejus wrote: »

It's Sc V - Scour Valve, I think you open this and all the sediment and crap at the bottom of the main flies out

The top number is the diameter of the pipe. I think RHC means Right Hand Closing, as usually where it says RHC there's a number which states how far away the valve is

RM is rising main

DM is descending main


If you can find that location on http://maps.osi.ie/ you'll see the main coming up and down.

Can't see much on the OSI maps, but can see on the older maps that there is a water tank above that area which is possibly related.




The signs are somewhere near to the 445 marking in the image on the bottom left side.
Interesting that it was called Mount Mapas Obelisk , and the hill Victoria Hill, must look up the history of that someday.

Fratton Fred

It was renamed Victoria Hill during Queen Victoria's jubilee.

The Mapas family (who lived in the house that is now Fitzpatrick's hotel), built the obelisk and various walls on the hill to provide work during the famine in the mid eighteenth century.

rubadub

Reminded me of this, the gravestone of yer man from Steps

pedroeibar1

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The Mapas family (who lived in the house that is now Fitzpatrick's hotel), built the obelisk and various walls on the hill to provide work during the famine in the mid eighteenth century.

Famine of 1741, caused by weather, not blight, all crops failed or had a very poor harvest. The Mapas family had long moved out of Mount Mapas and had built a new Mount Mapas (on Victoria Rd) by the time of Queen V's visit - their old house was enlarged and renamed Killiney Castle by Col. Warren. The park/land was bought from him with cash raised by public subscription. Vico Road was opened to the public at about the same time.

That resevoir with the signs (on the Hill) is relatively new; I always understood that the original resevoir for the houses in that area was on Torca Hill (still there AFAIK) and when the CoCo built the houses behind the shops in Killiney village the water pressure was not sufficient, hence the construction of the one on Killiney Hill.

Supercell

That's really interesting. I lived very close to Fitzpatrick's growing up and always thought it was constructed like that as a hotel, never knew it was a family home at one stage.
I wonder do the residents at the top of the Torca road on the sea facing side of the hill get their water from the same reservoir , they are in a pretty elevated position also.

pedroeibar1

Supercell wrote: »

That's really interesting. I lived very close to Fitzpatrick's growing up and always thought it was constructed like that as a hotel, never knew it was a family home at one stage.
I wonder do the residents at the top of the Torca road on the sea facing side of the hill get their water from the same reservoir , they are in a pretty elevated position also.

You must be a mere child! Two elderly ladies ran it as a sort of B&B, a creepy musty old place, it had a big velvet curtain inside the front door to stop the draughts and they also had cats.. Paddy Fitzpatrick bought the place c1969/70 from them. Prior to that he was manager of the Talbot Hotel in Wexford, very well known, a sort of Francis Brennan of his day. He added the wing on the Dalkey side and a few years later he built the apartment blocks.

The houses on Torca and Ardbrugh get their water from the reservoir on Torca Rd. That was under the Dalkey Town Commissioners, (that is why Dalkey has a Town Hall) whereas the resevoir at the obelisk was under the Killiney & Ballybrack Commissioners. There also is a reservoir in Ballinclea Heights. There usually was trouble between the two bodies, the usual politics over boundaries and who was responsible for what, because they were funded from the "rates" which they levied on the householders in their districts.

I erred in my post above, the park / land was bought from Col. R. Warren's son, also named Robert, who was not an army man.

ted1

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

You must be a mere child! Two elderly ladies ran it as a sort of B&B, a creepy musty old place, it had a big velvet curtain inside the front door to stop the draughts and they also had cats.. Paddy Fitzpatrick bought the place c1969/70 from them. Prior to that he was manager of the Talbot Hotel in Wexford, very well known, a sort of Francis Brennan of his day. He added the wing on the Dalkey side and a few years later he built the apartment blocks.

The houses on Torca and Ardbrugh get their water from the reservoir on Torca Rd. That was under the Dalkey Town Commissioners, (that is why Dalkey has a Town Hall) whereas the resevoir at the obelisk was under the Killiney & Ballybrack Commissioners. There also is a reservoir in Ballinclea Heights. There usually was trouble between the two bodies, the usual politics over boundaries and who was responsible for what, because they were funded from the "rates" which they levied on the householders in their districts.

I erred in my post above, the park / land was bought from Col. R. Warren's son, also named Robert, who was not an army man.

Heres an interactive map that shows the various resevoirs around killiney/dalkey
http://www.photopol.com/articles/sons.html

pedroeibar1

Thanks for that. Curious map and it does not show the Torca resevoir which is on the OSI HERE