Dublin 15 Historic Pictures Thread

I just found this thread.
Here are a few random answers to Miscellaneous queries.
The well at caveen with the spring was covered in when the Blanch bypass was built in the '80's.
The O'Reilly's shop was actually where Jenna's flowers is. The kid with the pup is my father, TP O'Reilly. It was origially an RIC barracks, and the bolts for the steel shutters are still in the widow cills.
TP O'Reilly bought the NIB building in the 60's
Yes indeed Johnny Godley had great underwear, including all in one's for men, complete with trapdoor. Johnny is still alive and very well.
Passifyoucan is betwwen Lucan Clonee and Dunboyne.
Belleville was the property in Ashtown, and I sincerely doubt if Marion Hendron was ever "done" in her life. She was a great poker player.
I can trace my family in Blanchardstown back to mid 1760's, and my Great grandfather owned the original licence and site of the Bell. There has been a pub there since the 19th century
As for the Aeial photo's I will get to them in the future.

suey71 wrote: »

Btw. the house still there. Its the beautiful old Georgian house just after the scouts den.

That's my house

F.Russell wrote: »

I am about to reply to Thread No. 11

althought you have got the area right that house that was posted is not mangles house i was in it more than once mangles house had 3 windows on the top a front door centre on the ground floor with 2 windows either side i played in the field out side the house and use to pick the odd mushroom from there i only moved to blanchardstown in the mid 50 as a 2year old mrs mangle and my mum were good friends mr mangle as most of the kid in those day would know, usually got 12 o clock mass he was famous for eaten foxes glasser mints and of course that old push bike of his or maybe it was his wifes bike it was an old nelly the house posted looks awfully familur to me i lived in brigids park and we refered to it as aggie mangles field sorry to dissapoint but thats what i can recall

and if you can recall the front door had a semi circle glass window over it so unless it had a new door fitted and was replastered well then its a possibility by the way it window frame and doors were always painted a dark blue inside the house it had just inside the front door turn left was a small hall was very dark because the front windows were so far apart and not very big but door on left when opened displayed a living room full of light i can remember the furniture was mostly of solid varnished wood and a huge oval mirror on a display cabinet

if you drew a line from the centerof the pic to 110 clock you will c a big mansion on the far side of the canal and railway it was on by a wealthy jewish family i dont know ther name in the 1950 come i do know the owners in the 1980 was a family called stone he was also the owner of pegasus foods the dealt with horse feed dont know if they survived the recession hope they did come on that line just to this side of the canal and carry on 3 inches on a tape measure and head to castleknock picis notvery clear you would arrive at two railway cottages the first of which i was my family home and then next stop was flynns lock as i was very young i cant tell you much about the area but my father filled me in from time to time

im 95% sure it was windmere afamily called henrys or mac henrys lived there in the 70 and 80 at least one of the occupiers went by that name

the house to its left was occupied by the manager or director of the race course nice man had a pint with him across the road

hendrons your right were nt they in the fuel business or similar

no the donnelly s in question that became the bicycle shop was the one opposite the margarine factory main gate a cyclist that road for ireland in the olympics and on the tour de france named philip cassidy ran that shop his father pat lined in clonee

yes that house was the shaclkelton family yes ernest shackelton antartic explorer all the locals would refare to it as shackeltons

when the pub closed down that particular donnellys open another pub just 50meters back towards blanch village and they called it hte twin oaks it was run by the son

carrs lived behind the pub in mulhuddart yes that was the bertie donnellies it was called the shanty nowhere near blanch that is the two cottages you are talking about corcorans was in the village i vaguely remember been told

docster wrote: »

Where was this post office again?...it looks so familiar but I just cant place it!

More or less where Abrakebabra is now.

Just wondering if anyone has any photos or even links to photos of the cottages that used to behind the shanty pub in mulhuddart? They were knocked down a few years back to build an apartment block, I'm enquiring about the ones that looked directly onto the canal & back of the pub

Nolimits wrote: »

Hmm, I'd like to see theses as well, my Dad was born in one of them.

So was my mam.. There's a twitter page called PhotosOfDublin & the guy that runs it is from Blanchardstown he's gonna see if he can find some & post them up, would be nice to see them back in the old days

Nolimits wrote: »

Does her maiden name begin with V? We might be cousins

What a small world! Yeah that's right, they moved to St.Brigids park after there