RANELAGH IN DUBLIN 6 NORTHBROOK AVENUE
Lots of bicycles and umbrellas to be seen when I visited Northbrook Avenue in Ranelagh on Friday 8th November.
Located in Ranelagh,across the street from the LUAS tram stop, the gardens were originally part of 5 hectares of pleasure gardens developed in 1775 by a businessman who called them after Lord Ranelagh from Co. Wicklow. Lord Ranelagh had similar pleasure gardens beside the Thames in London. The first hot air balloon flight in Ireland was launched from the pleasure gardens by Richard Crosbie. The gardens were later sold to a teaching order of nuns and in 1840 the convent there became totally enclosed and the gardens forgotten. However, in the 1980s the gardens were again opened up to the public, albeit on a much smaller scale
When the lands were developed for housing in the mid 1980's, the current park was designed to include an ornamental pool thereby restoring the two-hundred years historical connection with the original Ranelagh Gardens.
Located in Ranelagh,across the street from the LUAS tram stop, the gardens were originally part of 5 hectares of pleasure gardens developed in 1775 by a businessman who called them after Lord Ranelagh from Co. Wicklow. Lord Ranelagh had similar pleasure gardens beside the Thames in London. The first hot air balloon flight in Ireland was launched from the pleasure gardens by Richard Crosbie. The gardens were later sold to a teaching order of nuns and in 1840 the convent there became totally enclosed and the gardens forgotten. However, in the 1980s the gardens were again opened up to the public, albeit on a much smaller scale
When the lands were developed for housing in the mid 1980's, the current park was designed to include an ornamental pool thereby restoring the two-hundred years historical connection with the original Ranelagh Gardens.
You will find links to buy products from Amazon, Google and other partners. If you click on these links, you’ll find that the URL includes a small extra piece of text which identifies that the click came from my websites. This text is an affiliate code, and it means that I get a small percentage of the money you spend if you choose to buy that product, or, in some cases, other products from the site soon after. These affiliate links help pay the costs of producing my websites and ensure that the content is free to you.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION BELOW APPLIES ONLY TO PHOTOGRAPHS
This work by William Murphy aka Infomatique is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://excellentstreetimages.com/in-the-year-twentytwenty/copyright/.
