Halfpenny Bridge House Dublin

bobbyss

Was passing the Quays recently and noticed the above. May be a kind of hotel. But above the door I saw carved in stone what looked like the old farthing piece - a pig with some numbers as far as I could tell.
It was quite distinctive.

Anyone know anything about this building?

Of course the title should be Halfpenny.

riffmongous

Fixed that for you

Peregrinus

The image is of a halfpenny, not a farthing, which makes sense. (The farthing had a woodcock on it, not a pig.) The doorcase in which the image is contained is modern, as is I think the whole building. I believe it's an apartment building, dating perhaps from the 1990s.

bobbyss

Peregrinus wrote:

The image is of a halfpenny, not a farthing, which makes sense. (The farthing had a woodcock on it, not a pig.) The doorcase in which the image is contained is modern, as is I think the whole building. I believe it's an apartment building, dating perhaps from the 1990s.

Well of course ! Thanks. I saw what looked like tourists exiting it and that's what drew my attention to it in the first place. It's quite distinctive and looks like a modern imprint. I had thought there might be some connection to guilds or something like that. Not too far away on the south quays /Capel St you have the lovely engravings on the Sunshine (?) Building, Solicitors' offices now.
The old coinage indeed. Pigs and woodcock! A hen was there?

Peregrinus

bobbyss wrote: »

Well of course ! Thanks. I saw what looked like tourists exiting it and that's what drew my attention to it in the first place. It's quite distinctive and looks like a modern imprint. I had thought there might be some connection to guilds or something like that. Not too far away on the south quays /Capel St you have the lovely engravings on the Sunshine (?) Building, Solicitors' offices now.
The old coinage indeed. Pigs and woodcock! A hen was there?

There was a hen (and chicks) on the penny, a hare on the threepenny bit, a greyhound on the sixpence, a bull on the shillling, a salmon on the florin and a horse on the half-crown.

(I'm showing my age, I'm afraid. In my defence, I don't actually remember the farthing.)

bobbyss

Peregrinus wrote:

There was a hen (and chicks) on the penny, a hare on the threepenny bit, a greyhound on the sixpence, a bull on the shillling, a salmon on the florin and a horse on the half-crown.

Peregrinus wrote:

(I'm showing my age, I'm afraid. In my defence, I don't actually remember the farthing.)

I have some memories of those. The greyhound on a sixpence! The florin! The threepenny bit! ( 'bit' mind you!)

Jellybaby1

Peregrinus wrote: »

There was a hen (and chicks) on the penny, a hare on the threepenny bit, a greyhound on the sixpence, a bull on the shillling, a salmon on the florin and a horse on the half-crown.

(I'm showing my age, I'm afraid. In my defence, I don't actually remember the farthing.)

I'm afraid I do remember the farthing!

bobbyss wrote: »

I have some memories of those. The greyhound on a sixpence! The florin! The threepenny bit! ( 'bit' mind you!)

Usually pronounced "thrupenny bit" I remember.

pinkypinky

It is definitely an apartment block. I knew people who lived there.