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GROSVENOR ROAD IS IT IN RATHGAR

I am not sure if this road is in Rathmines or Rathgar. However, my mother and grandmother considered it to be Rathgar, maybe because my grand-aunt lived in the area.

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THE WINDMILLS WERE STATIC

FATHER COLLINS PARK CLONGRIFFIN

 I visited on a very wet windy day, in January 2016, but the windmills were locked-down ... maybe the weather was unsuitable. Back then I used a Sony A7RII and a Sony FE35 35mm F1.4 lens. The name Clongriffin is a modern invention, a concatenation of "clon", the anglicisation of cluain (the Irish language word for meadow), and griffin. A griffin, griffon, or gryphon (the Irish of which is ghrífín) is a mythical beast and may be an element in the name of the adjacent district, Balgriffin.



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