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DUBLIN STREET ART BY DECOY

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AT THE MILL ON WEST BOW LANE

Bow Lane West runs from Bow Bridge to James’s Street along the southern side of St Patrick’s University Hospital. Bow Bridge crosses the River Camac.

The Mill on Bow is marketed as being Dublin’s only Indoor Combat Centre offering a range of shooter based activities for all ages. The ideal venue for Birthdays, stag and hen dos, corporate team building and just a days fun with mates.

Decoy is a professional muralist and street artist living and working in Dún Laoghaire. He has worked extensively with Dublin collective Subset, and has worked on the Grey Area Project which saw many grey walls transformed across the city.

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BOW LANE WEST FROM JAMES’S STREET TO BOW BRIDGE

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PHOTOGRAPHED IN NOVEMBER 2022

While photographing along the street I noticed a building named Tathony House and thinking that it was an unusual name I decided to check online only to discover that the building was in the news as about 100 tenants living in 35 apartments were served with eviction notices as recently as October 29 2022 as the landlord was planning to sell the building. The residents must vacate the property by the start of June 2023.

Bow Lane West runs from Bow Bridge to James’s Street along the southern side of St Patrick’s University Hospital. Bow Bridge crosses the River Camac.

Bow Lane West first appears on maps of Dublin with John Rocque’s map of 1756. Neither Bow Lane West nor Bow Bridge appear on early maps of Dublin as they lay outside the city gates. In 1862, the area was predominately tenements.

There is a small pedestrian lane that connect James’s Street on the south to Bow Lane West on the north. It was previously known as Murdering Lane or The Murd’ring Lane, and first appeared on maps in 1603, until it was renamed ‘Cromwell’s Quarters’ around 1892 when Alderman McSwiney called for the lane to be renamed in order to “preserve historical continuity”. The Cromwell in question was not Oliver Cromwell but his son Henry, who became Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1657. It is currently an unmarked pedestrian stepped alley. The lane is also locally referred to as “The Forty Steps”, even though there are only 39.

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