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THE IRISHTOWN HOUSE PUB

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IRISHTOWN AREA OF DUBLIN

Described as a Live Music Venue and Sports Bar 15 minute walk from the Avivia Stadium and Point Depot.

Irishtown (Irish: An Baile Gaelach) is an inner suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on the southside of the River Liffey, between Ringsend to the north and Sandymount to the south, and is to the east of the River Dodder.

Irishtown grew outside of Dublin, about 2 km east of the medieval city walls. Dublin was originally a Viking city and after 1171, when an Anglo-Norman army seized it, Dublin became the centre of English rule in Ireland. The native Gaelic Irish were therefore viewed as an alien force in the city, and suspicion of them was deepened by continual raids on Dublin and its environs by the O’Byrne and O’Toole clans from the nearby Wicklow Mountains. By the 15th century, Gaelic migration to the city had made the English authorities fearful that the English language and culture would become a minority there. As a result, the Irish inhabitants of Dublin were expelled from the city proper in about 1454, in line with the Statutes of Kilkenny. The Irish population were only allowed to trade inside the city limits by daylight. At the end of the day’s trading, they would leave and set up camp in what was to become known as “the Irishtown”.

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.

GLASSON COURT PARK AND THE SLANG RIVER

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WINDY ARBOUR – DUNDRUM – MILLTOWN

The name of the area was originally Irish Na Glasáin, “the green land”; this was Anglicised as ‘Glassons’. The name Windy Harbour or Sandy Arbour was later applied, referring to a landing-point on the River Slang. A starch mill was formerly located there. “Arbour” once had the meaning “grass plot, lawn, garden”; it is possible that the name was intended as a direct translation of glasáin.

The River Slang (Irish: Abhainn na Stéille), also known as the Dundrum Slang or the Dundrum River, a tributary of the River Dodder, is a stream which rises on Three Rock Mountain, County Dublin. It is in the jurisdiction of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

From Three Rock Woods on the northern slopes of Three Rock Mountain, the Slang flows down through Ticknock, passing Ballinteer north to Dundrum, where it (sometimes known this far as “Ticknock Stream” or “River Ann”) receives the Wyckham Stream, and then loops east, north, and west, coming to a mill pond north of the Dundrum Town Centre retail complex. The Slang then runs north via Windy Arbour and subsequently joins the River Dodder at Milltown, near the Nine Arches viaduct, now used by the Luas.

The small Wyckham Stream, joining from the west, is a natural tributary, visible on early maps, but was later connected to the Little Dargle River, further west, to take some of the flow of that river into the Slang, to increase the supply for powering of mills.

Today there is a walk made by the County Council from south Dundrum to Marlay Park, along part of the Slang, the Wyckham Stream, and part of the Little Dargle.

The Slang was a small stream in a grassy glen behind Dundrum’s main street, near the old Dundrum Castle, and children used to play there until late in the 1960s, from when it was confined more and more by modern developments.

Its name is from the archaic English term slang, meaning “long, narrow piece of land.” Its Irish name is abhainn na Stéille, “river of the strip [of land]”.

According to the local authorities and the Office of Public Works, the Slang has a notable record of flooding. In October 2011, after torrential rain on “the Three Rock”, the Slang burst its banks at the mill pond below the old castle, flooding the “Town Centre” shopping mall to a depth of at least 15 cm – a ‘once in a century’ occurrence according to reports, and featuring in video reports on YouTube and similar sites.

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