PHOTOGRAPHED 18 MAY 2018 PUBLISHED 13 OCTOBER 2022
I used a Sony RX0 camera, a tiny camera, but for various technical reasons was unable to publish the images until today [13 October 2022]
Harold’s Cross Park is at the centre of Harold’s Cross in south Dublin. The park has a Victorian layout as well as a playground and tearooms.
When I returned from California in the 1980s I lived close to this park and I really liked the area and I was in the process of purchasing a house but before the sale was completed I was relocated by my employed. Looking back, I now know that I should have purchased the house.
Harold’s Cross has a number of pubs, shops, cafes, an active credit union, and other businesses.
Harold’s Cross Park, a small and well-maintained city park, occupies the site of the original village green and contains a playground, water feature and coffee kiosk.
Historically a number of large houses were constructed, mostly with the appendage of ‘Mount’ to reflect the parish’s elevation, and their names are remembered today but no longer as houses: Mount Argus (church and monastery), Mount Jerome (cemetery), Greenmount House (the Hospice), Mount Harold (the Catholic Church) and Mount Drummond and Mount Tallant (housing developments).
The memorial cross at Harold’s Cross Park was sculpted by local sculptor and stonemason Joseph Courtney.
In 1804 the sisters of the order of St. Clare moved to the village to run a female orphanage (named after San Damiano), founded the previous year. This is now the Saint Clare’s Convent and Primary School, and is the oldest Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Dublin. Beside the convent is the national headquarters for the Secular Franciscan Order.
