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Sea Point Hotel - 1834 - Dublin

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  • 02-02-2011 11:42pm
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    zagmund
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    Does anyone know the location of the "Sea Point Hotel" referenced in the common image of the Dublin & Kingstown Railway - "From the Foot Bridge at Sea Point Hotel, looking towards Salt Hill....Kingstown Harbour in the distance"?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Kingstown_Railway

    From the other images in the series, it's somewhere between Lord Cloncurrys Bridge (between Idrone Terrace & Maretimo today) and the Martello Tower at Seapoint.

    Lord Cloncurrys Bridge is at the top left in this image.

    My understanding is that the Sea Point Hotel would be either one of the large houses at the bend in Newtown Avenue or else one of the houses further down Seapoint Avenue overlooking what is now the DART station. Given the existence of the building on the left, it is most likely the DART station location. This would be consistent with the existence of the footbridge at Ardenza Terrace being the one referenced in the image.

    z


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    LordSutch
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    I remember a hotel located on the corner of the slip road to Salthill Station car park & Longford terrace, starting from Monkstown C of I Church go down Clifton Avenue towards the sea, then on the far side of the road & to the right you will see railings on the corner surrounding an apartment complex overlooking the Dart Station. I vaguely remember a Hotel there in the early 70s which burnt down, and I suspect that might have been it?


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    Grid.
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    That would be the Salthill Hotel you are referring to and it was indeed burnt down in the early 1970's and subsequently demolished in '72. Its location was just behind the West Pier petrol station and the row of shops at the Purty Kitchen where the new apartments now stand.
    There is an excellent book about Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County by Peter Pearson called "Between the Mountains and the Sea", which includes some pictures of it.

    Just found another pic of it here:http://http://www.cardcow.com/271506/salthill-hotel-county-dublin-monkstown-ireland/


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    zagmund
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    Thanks for the responses guys. I know of the Salthill Hotel alright, but in my understanding the Seapoint Hotel would have been further back towards Dublin.

    The title of this image includes the text "looking wowards Salthill" so if this was actually in Salthill we would be looking towards old Dunleary - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%26KR5.jpg

    z


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    Fuzzy Clam
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    Take a look at the OSI mapviewer. http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,723385,728875,7,7
    On the Historic 6" map, there is a Salthill Ho. and a Seapoint Ho.
    On the later 25" map, Salthill Ho. is spelt Hotel. The Seapoint Ho. is gone. It's possible that was the hotel.


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