An Experimental Site By Infomatique
NOVEMBER 2022
As a matter of interest Palace Street is the shortest street in Dublin.
I took a short cut from Dublin Castle, Palace Street, to South Great George’s and I also checked to see if there was any new examples of street art. There was one that I have already published photographs of but there was a new one relating to the protests in Iran.
DERELICT SITE ON THE SOUTH CIRCULAR ROAD IN DOLPHIN’S BARN
Dolphin’s Barn is an inner city suburb of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Southside of the city in the Dublin 8, and partially in the Dublin 12, postal district.
The district’s name possibly derives from an Anglo-Norman family named Dolphyn who owned a prominent storehouse there in medieval times. However it could also derive from its more ancient name of Carnán Cluana Úi Dhunchada (the little cairn of the meadow of the Úi Dhunchada) or its shortened version of Carn Úi Dhunchada (the cairn of the Úi Dhunchada), anglicised as “Dunphy’s Cairn” and ending as “Dolphin’s Barn”. The Úi Dhunchada were one of the three branches of the Úi Dúnlainge dynasty from which came most of the Kings of Leinster from the 5th to the 11th century AD.
