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THE OLDEST OF Dublin city’s archived photos and materials include a map from 1757 planning to build an avenue to Dublin Castle.
Dublin City Council published an online archive this week of images of Ireland from the past 100 years, as well as photographs of memorabilia that they have in their possession.
Among the oldest pieces in their possession are 260-year-old maps proposing changes to the city centre.
The plans (shown in the grey bits of road on the map below) were to open a principal avenue to Dublin Castle.
This would be the beginning of a new avenue named Parliament Street.
Plans started in 1757
The polemic map where the plans originate (above) is attributed to George Semple, who was the architect of Essex Bridge, which is now called Grattan Bridge.
This map was distributed to members of House of Commons and Dublin City Assembly, and led directly to an Act of Parliament in 1758 to establish the Wide Street Commissioners.
In the panel on the left-hand side of the map, it lists the problems Semple felt need fixing:
That the Royal Palace or Castle is of a very difficult access and most totally concealed by means of the old Cork House on Cork Hill.
That the passage from the Castle from Essek Bridhe (a very great thoroughfare) is extremely crooked and narrow, not being more than 18 feet broad, at the end of Copper-Alley on the Blind Quay.
That at the North End of Ormond [Quay], the passage for the public is not more than 21 feet in breadth, but at the Head of King’s Inn Quay and about the North End of the Old Bridge (a very dangerous and great thoroughfare) it is only about 15 or 18 feet broad.
‘A handsome colonnade’
Based on the list of problems above, they list these three solutions, two of which are:
To open and make a small square before the Castle extending from the left side of Salutation Alley to the west side of Cork Hill.
To open a new street on the west side of the said little square. Fifty-one feet wide, in a direct line over Essex Bridge to Capel Street, which said direct line will extend above half an English mile in length, northerly and the South End of the direct line or avenue, will be terminated by Bermingham Tower and another gate which maybe built on that canace piece of ground between the buildings of the upper castle yard and the Treasury Office, answerable to the present gate of said upper yard, with a handsome colonnade or a plazza betwixt said two gates, for the guards.
The building of the avenue which was completed between 1758-1762 was mainly in accordance with the 1757 plan, though a different architect was responsible.
Is there any logical reason why farming and eating dog should be illegal? The animals we normally eat (cow, sheep, goat, etc) tend to be herbivores, so are easier to farm and taste different than carnivores. But beyond that, surely if we can humanely farm and eat species X, we should be allowed to eat species Y if it is also farmed in a humane manner?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: How many pet cows do you have? Do you take your goat for a walk everyday.
Whilst there may be some validity to your argument I think you’ll find the overwhelming majority of people actually see their pet dogs as something more, even part of the family. So the prospect of chowing down on Lassie is not very appealing to most.
@damien leen: I don’t think Koreans were eating their pet dogs though.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: have you seen the way they’re killed, thrown alive into a pot of boiling water…r u ok with that!
@Clare Power: Hot dogs? Mmmmm,I love ‘em
@Larry Betts: stop Larry, yr supposed to be the funny man here
@Clare Power: boohoo
@Tom Dillon: oh that’s alrite then… C’mon man!
@Clare Power: I hope the EU doesn’t now ban German Shepherd Pie
@Larry Betts: I said your supposed to be funny Larry!!
@Clare Power: I’m never again going to ask for a doggie bag whenever I’m in a restaurant.
I’ve no time for people that haven’t empathy for animals, there’s something missing in their soul…my opinion…
About time
No more wokking the dog, as it were…
Well done, South Korea.
Lassie ain’t coming home!
For those who can’t now eat dog,they will feast on tasty Not Poodles
Koreans have swapped dogs for babies. The population has gone through the floor. By the way dog stew or boshintang is delicious – a little like a spicy lamb stew. Why should people be forced to abandon their own foid culture? Westerners complain about migrants swamping their own culture while imposing their values and culture on Asian, African and other indigenous cultures. No one who supports the banning of dog meat in Korea should oppose the imposition of Sharia in Ireland.
Personally, I think it’s barking mad decision by the government.
Banning dog meat will only lead farmers to go underground with their business.
Instead of a regulated price for the meat, meat prices could fetch a higher price due to the ban from the dog meat ban.
Anyone for a Chinese ?
@Jb Walshe: It’s only now that I realise what the Indians put in a madras curry,omg
The way some people anthromorphosise dogs, and cats, is beyond ridiculous. If some people want to eat dogs then let them.
Wokery. Wok wokery.
It’s not the eating I have a problem with, it’s the way they are “prepared”, the wire binding the limbs and mouth, the tape to stop them screaming , it’s the skinning alive, the boiling alive, the torture to promote the myth that the meat tastes better. I, for one, am extremely happy with the ban, it should be immediate, not in 3 years. It’s not just farmed dogs, it’s the stolen pets too that are affected.
Foid=food
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