Monday 23 April 2018

A Querying Eye

A walk through a Dublin suburb can provoke a variety of questions.

How did a fairly ordinary house in South Richmond Avenue acquire a folly-like summerhouse whose odd pinnacles I thought gave it a Mughal feel, but which reminded Ms Formerly Aldgate of sink plungers?


What's this strange structure in the garden of a house a couple of doors away from the folly, which looks like a holy well but can't be?


What inspired the Catholic parishioners of Rathmines in 1856 to build their new church to try and rival St Peter's in Rome? And where was the young chap I overheard talking to another over a cigarette just round the corner referring to, when he advised his friend not to go there because it was 'all prostitutes, male prostitutes, and transvestites'?


Why is there a little bridge next to the Dodder River which doesn't go anywhere?


How did this castellated mansion end up islanded in the middle of modern flats and houses in Milltown?


What former industrial process left this chimney standing on its own near the river path?


And finally, why is there a fibreglass rhinoceros standing in the river?

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