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THIS IS RATHFARNHAM VILLAGE 224974

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3 NOVEMBER 2023

I visited this village early in November and it was a beautiful sunny day.

It is now Thursday 16 November and I have been out of action for a few days as my upgrade to macOS Sonoma presented me with a series of problems the major one being was that my internal drive had no storage space an hour or two after the upgrade. After about two days I discovered that the disk contained a number of TimeMachine snapshots totalling about one terabyte and it would appear that some of the files were created up to three years ago … this has created a number of ongoing problems especially as I am now using FinalCut Pro,

Rathfarnham is the start of the Military Road. This road through the Wicklow Mountains (still in use mainly for tourist traffic) was built at the beginning of the 19th century to open up the Wicklow Mountains to the British Army to assist them in putting down the insurgents who were hiding there following the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Rathfarnham itself was the scene of some skirmishes in the early days of the Rising which extended to the final battle in “Raheen” County Wexford.

Construction commenced on 12 August 1800 and was completed in October 1809. The road starts outside the Yellow House, passes the head of Glencree, with a spur down that valley to Enniskerry, rises to the Sally Gap and then dips down to Laragh, over the hills into Glenmalure, and finishes at Aghavannagh. Well-known sections also include the Featherbed Mountain, the section below Kippure Mountain. The total distance was 34 Irish Miles, of which the spur to Enniskerry was 5 Irish Miles. The engineer in charge was Alexander Taylor (born in 1746), who was responsible for many other roads in the country, including some “Turnpike Roads”, which are Toll Roads.

CHURCH LANE IN RATHFARNHAM VILLAGE

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NOVEMBER 2023

In Rathfarnham, the general area, there were several paper mills, one at the bottom of Church Lane, which ran from the village of Rathfarnham, down to the river Dodder, in front of Woodview cottages. It was first established by William Lake of Rathfarnham, in 1719 but later taken by over by William and Thomas Slater.

Church Lane is a street in the village of Rathfarnham, in South Dublin, Ireland. It is a short lane off of Main Street, and is home to a number of businesses but it is dominated by the Church Of Ireland parish church.

History records a timber parish Church in Rathfarnham in 1212 AD. Later a stone Church was built on the site and the ruins remain today, 40 metres north of the present Church. In 1779/80 a decision was made to build a new Church as the congregation grew in numbers.

WOODVIEW COTTAGES AND RATHFARNHAM HILL

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PHOTOGRAPHED EARLY NOVEMBER 2023

Woodview Cottages has been described as small enclave of pretty former council houses set beside a large green and across the road from Dodder Valley Park. They cottages were built in 1916 on the site of an old paper mill.

Rathfarnham has three rivers all running south through it from the mountains: the Dodder, the Owendoher and Whitechurch Stream. All three were extensively harnessed before the twentieth century to power water mills, which for much of the 18th and 19th centuries, were used for the paper trade. In Rathfarnham itself, there were several paper mills, one at the bottom of Church Lane, which ran from the village of Rathfarnham, down to the river Dodder, in front of Woodview cottages. It was first established by William Lake of Rathfarnham, in 1719 but later taken by over by William and Thomas Slater.

The papermaking industry in Rathfarnham began to decline in the late 19th century, as new technologies and cheaper labor sources made it difficult for Irish mills to compete. By the early 20th century, all of the paper mills in Rathfarnham had closed.

Today, there are no longer any active paper mills in Rathfarnham. However, the area’s history of paper-making is still remembered, and there are a number of historical sites and artefacts that relate to the industry.

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