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Halfpenny Bridge House Dublin

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  • 31-05-2018 9:58pm
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    bobbyss
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    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.


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    riffmongous
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    Fixed that for you


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    Peregrinus
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    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.


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    bobbyss
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    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?


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    Peregrinus
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    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.)


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    bobbyss
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    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!)


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    Jellybaby1
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    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! :o

    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.


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

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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