big house/building in north Dublin

loyatemu

what is this building, photo taken from a ferry in the port. I was trying to identify it from Google maps but couldn't find it, thought it might be DCU, seems to be in the direction of the airport (I think that's the airport traffic tower on the left of the pic). Apologies for the crap phone-cam resolution:

loyatemu

OK - having drawn some lines on Google maps I think it's St David's CBS in Artane, FKA Artane House, then Artane Industrial School. It's certainly an imposing building.

Effects

I wouldn't have thought it was that tall/elevated, that it could be seen from the port. But it looks like it alright.

I only spotted that building a few months back on google maps. Had never noticed it before, tucked away behind Artane Castle shopping centre.

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118106342#Comment_118106342

bear in mind the ferry is quite tall, from the deck I was on it was probably the equivalent of being on the 4th or 5th storey of a building.

neris

It could be the Marino College building on Griffith avenue

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118108438#Comment_118108438

Think that would have cranes in the shot at the moment

loyatemu

it's definitely the former Artane Industrial School.

I thought it was a country mansion they'd repurposed for the school, but it appears it was purpose built. They really wanted the building to impose itself on it's inhabitants I guess 😕

Podge_irl

I grew up 100m from that building and would not in a million years have thought/realised you could see it so prominently.

magicbastarder

weird, this is the second time in a few days i've seen someone ask about this building.

https://mobile.twitter.com/drlucymichael/status/1454823778983231488

miamee

Has something been knocked down recently that might have blocked the view of it up to now? Or trees been removed?

loyatemu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118113177#Comment_118113177

I don't think so unless whatever was blocking it was MAHOOSIVE! I mean, the Aviva would block it, or the Childrens Hospital; but it's a massive building and appears to be on a bit of a hill. Howth and the Port are in 2 different directions as well.

magicbastarder

the two contexts above where it was spotted - one was from a ferry, so not an angle most people would see at all regularly, and the second was what appears to be low sun hitting it, seen from a viewpoint high above it, so possibly just two contexts where it's more visible than normal?

it doesn't seem to be visible from strand road, the port/poolbeg/incinerator block the view, from what i can see from google street view.

yourdeadwright

It's 100% St David's ,

There a bit of a trick to it, its placed on top of a hill so easily seen from Howth & the port when on a tall vessel but when you at ground level going up the Malahide road or anywhere actually close you can't see it as its hidden by houses in front of it ,

I's all about perspective on this one ,

mr cowen

great school, I went there in the 80's, loved sitting in the tech drawing class and looking out over the bay, as mr glynn the mickey drawing teacher used to say "it was situated at the top of the house", right in the middle of the building, jusy below the four chimneys, ye could see for miles.

Effects

Why was your teacher known for drawing mickeys?

mr cowen

😂🤣😂 no..lol, it was a slang term the kids used to describe mechanical drawing class, "the mickey drawing class".... but good reply tho..pmsl

Effects

Funnily enough, I was coming through Fairview Park the other day, looked out in the Artane direction, and St. Davids was immediately visible.