An Experimental Site By Infomatique
PHOTOGRAPHED 3 AUGUST 2022
St. Mary’s Abbey was a former Cistercian abbey located near the junction of Abbey Street and Capel Street in Dublin. Its territory stretched from the district known as Oxmanstown down along the River Liffey until it met the sea. It also owned large estates in other parts of Ireland. It was one of several liberties that existed in Dublin since the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century, which gave it jurisdiction over its lands.
2 DECEMBER 2022
This attractive little park is well worth a visit but it up until recently I was more than annoyed by the fact that the gates were only open for two hours every weekday up until a few years ago. To the best of my knowledge it is now open to the public from 8am to 4pm every day. Officially, the hours are limited because of anti-social activity in the immediate area.
The neighbourhood of Chancery Park has a very colourful history. According to some historic accounts it was known as “the Pill”, an ancient name that was related to a Viking term for “penis”. Up until 1798, Pill Lane, where Chancery Street now stands, was considered a hotbed of sedition. It was such a source of revolutionary pamphlets that the authorities spoke of the “Marats of Pill Lane”, a reference to the French radical journalist assassinated in his bath.
