Ringsend

PIGEON HOUSE ROAD IN RINGSEND

August 28, 2023 by infomatique

A COMPLEX OF STREETS RATHER THAN A SINGLE STREET

Pigeon House Road is a residential area and reports from elected Councillors and members of the public outlined that there were on-going issues of speeding, congestion, rat-running, noise and air pollution. Dublin City Council proposed a scheme to promote cycling and pedestrian transport while make the neighbourhood a more liveable community where conditions are better for all residents in the area. In August 2020 temporary traffic calming measures were implemented to create a pedestrian and cycling friendly zone on Pigeon House Road.

The trial closed a section of road to motor vehicles and retained access for pedestrians, cyclists, and emergency vehicles through the use of bollards and planters east of the Poolbeg Quay apartments and north of Ringsend Recycling Centre. The trial also included the appropriate traffic and road markings and signage. The trial commenced on the morning of 16th August 2020 for an initial period of four weeks, and was extended as agreed by elected Councillors for a further period of 12 months.

It is important to note that emergency services continue to have access through the filtered permeability measures in cases of emergency and this was one of the critical design briefs taken into consideration at initial design stages.

Based on observational surveys of the Pigeon House Road Area and research into the impacts of filtered permeability measures, the following positive impacts of the trial were observed:

Cut-through traffic (rat-running) has been eliminated on Pigeon House Road so that drivers are no longer able to use this local route as a short-cut from Sean Moore Roundabout to Ringsend via Pigeon House Road, and vice versa.
Less traffic has created a safer space for local residents, pedestrians, cyclists which include children attending local schools in Cambridge Road and surrounding areas.
Permeable neighbourhoods benefit the public health by encouraging walking and cycling, interaction and inclusion.
Reduction in motorised traffic has led to improvement in local air quality and reduction in noise pollution.
Safer cycling routes to the local Ringsend Park and the local amenities it offers.
These measures have created a safer and more liveable area for residents of Pigeon House Road, Poolbeg Quay Apartments, Cambridge Avenue, Ringsend Park, Cambridge Road, York Road, Thorncastle Street, and other local streets.
Local vehicular access to Pigeon House Road has been retained.
Access through the bollards has been maintained for emergency vehicles.
Positive health benefits.

The following negative impacts were observed:

Local residents who travel by car are required to take a more circuitous route.
Drivers who used to travel down Pigeon House Road to access to the Sean Moore roundabout (and vice-versa) have to take a longer more circuitous route on the Arterial roads.

THE MEETING OF FOUR STREETS

August 28, 2023 by infomatique

CAMBRIDGE ROAD – RINGSEND PARK – YORK ROAD – PIGEON HOUSE ROAD

I do not know if this was a water fountain at some stage or maybe it housed a religious statue. Note one of the streets is Ringsend Park but nearby there is a public park also named Ringsend Park.

The Ringsend Irishtown Local Environment Improvement Plan (LEIP) was adopted at the June 2017 South East Area Committee meeting. Four main focus areas were identified while making the plan: 1. Library Square, 2. Ringsend Park, 3. Cambridge Road and 4. Improving links

Cambridge Road was identified by residents as a priority project for a village wide improvement plan. Cambridge Road has two schools and a college . Despite the width of the carriageway, it is full of parking spaces, most of which are used by commuters to the city centre. Despite its width, the lack of visibility makes it dangerous for users in the morning, and especially school children, walking through Ringsend park. It also connects two major cycling routes, namely the Sandycove to Sutton and Dodder cycle routes.

RINGSEND LIBRARY IS AN ART DECO BUILDING DESIGNED BY ROBERT SORLEY LAWRIE

August 25, 2023 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED 25 AUGUST 2023

Ringsend Public Library is an art deco style public library in Ringsend, Dublin designed by Robert Sorley Lawrie working in the city architect’s office under Horace O’Rourke.

This building was one of four similar libraries built by Dublin Corporation between 1935 and 1940 in the Dublin suburbs of Phibsborough, Ringsend, Drumcondra and Inchicore.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF SIR JOHN ROGERSON’S QUAY IN DUBLIN

June 2, 2023 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED IN MAY 2023

In 1713, Dublin Corporation leased lands on the Liffey to Sir John Rogerson, who was a developer and had been Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1693 to 1694. The lease of 133 acres (54 ha) on the south bank of the river (described as ‘betwixt Lazy Hill and Ringsend’) was conditional on Rogerson constructing a quay on the land. As part of the privately funded development, a quay wall was built facing the river, with a second wall built further inland. The gap between these walls was filled with sand and gravel dredged from the Liffey. The project commenced in 1716, with the initial phase completed by the early 1720s.

John Rocque’s 1756 map of Dublin shows Rogerson’s quay as largely developed by the mid-18th century. During the early 19th century, the quay serviced larger freight vessels, including colliers which brought coal (from ports like Whitehaven in England) to feed the coal and gas works at nearby Hanover Quay. By the 20th century, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay was home to a number of shipbuilding and shipping companies, as well as several storehouse types, including cold stores and ‘campshire’ sheds. At the beginning of the “Lotus-Eaters” episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses, set in 1904, Leopold Bloom, one of the novel’s protagonists, walks along Rogerson’s Quay. Joyce describes it at the time as busy with lorry traffic, and notes some of the businesses along it—a linseed crusher, the postal telegraph office, and a sailor’s home.

As of the early 21st century, the previously functional maritime buildings and features of Sir John Rogerson’s Quay have been redeveloped for heritage tourism, and newer office buildings built on the quay. This has included redevelopment of the quay’s ‘campshire’ warehouses (associated with the historical use of the quay as a military ‘camp’), and the renovation of a mid-19th century diving bell made by Grendons of Drogheda. The diving bell has been a feature of the quays since the 1870s, and was used to build and maintain many of the walls of Dublin’s quays.