CONNECTS GRIFFITH AVENUE TO CROYDON GARDENS AND CROYDON PARK
On Google maps the spelling is Turlogh Parade rather than Turlough Parade and I could not find a street sign in order to confirm the spelling. I checked Apple Maps and the spelling is Turlough.
On arriving I asked a local the name of the park and she responded by telling me that it was the upper circle Marino. I later learned Marino has two large circular greens. Broadly speaking, each one is called The Circle but for the purpose of distinguishing between them there are various other names such as the Upper Circle [Croydon Gardens] and the Bottom Circle [Marino park].
I was unaware of this exact location until today [13 August 2022] even though I had heard of Croydon Park House.
The area where Croydon House once stood is now part of a suburb on the Northside of the city known as Marino.
Marino is approximately 15 minutes’ drive from the National Library of Ireland. The Irish Citizen Army was founded in November 1913. New recruits were drilled at Croydon Park. Croydon House was demolished in the mid-1920s to make way for the Marino housing scheme. Several modern street names in the residential neighbourhood retain the Croydon name.
The townland of Marino was carved out of the townland of Donnycarney which was granted to the Corporation of Dublin following the dissolution of The Priory of All Hallows in the reign of King Henry VIII. In 1787, it was described by English writer Richard Lewis as “a small village a mile beyond Drumcondra and two-and-a-half miles from Dublin Castle.”
The well-known Casino was built in 1759 as a summer house in the grounds of Marino House, demolished in the 1920s. A tunnel linking it to the main house for servants’ use is where Michael Collins and his men carried out tests with their first Thompson sub-machine gun. The Asgard guns are believed to have been hidden here. The area was full of members of the Irish Citizens’ Army. Jim Larkin lived in Croydon Park House and Countess Markiewicz and James Connolly were frequent visitors.
GRIFFITH AVENUE THE LONGEST TREE LINED AVENUE IN EUROPE
This artwork depicts the tree-lined roads of the Drumcondra and Marino area which seem to go on forever. They change with the seasons, providing beautiful walks for the local community
Tracey is a design lecturer and researcher in the School of Creative Arts, TU Dublin, with a background in Interior Design practice and 25 years in the design field.
Today I decided that it would be a good idea to visit St Annes Park but when I got to the bus stop there was a huge queue and the next bus was not due for twenty minutes. I then notice that the Swords bus was about to depart so I boarded it but the heat was to much for me so I got of at the nearest stop to Griffith Avenue and walked until I reached the 123 bus terminus and when I arrived I discovered What a Hoot! by artist & graphic designer Alan Mc Arthur.
I plan to explore the area in greater detail tomorrow.
Located on Griffith Avenue, St Vincent de Paul Parish Church in Marino is part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. The Church was completed in 1928 on the old Charlemont estate.
Marion is an area of Dublin that I have yet to explore in detail.
Marino is an inner suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It was built, in a planned form, on former grounds of Marino House, in an area between Drumcondra, Donnycarney, Clontarf, and what became Fairview. The initial development featured around 1,300 concrete-built houses.
The design of the new Marino development was heavily influenced by the Garden City Movement, which originated in the United Kingdom with Sir Ebeneezer Howard. Howard’s idea came from 19th century writings which inspired him to build the opposite of the general urban conditions that existed at the time, hence building the “Garden City”, to be “a perfect combination of rural and urban living”. His book, To-morrow, a Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), was reprinted in 1902 titled Garden Cities of Tomorrow.
GRIFFITH AVENUE FROM GLASNEVIN DOWNS TO EAST BALLYGALL ROAD
I do not know if it is actually true but it is claimed that Griffith Avenue is the longest purely residential tree-lined Avenue in Europe.
Today I walked along the avenue from Glasnevin Downs to Upper Drumcondra Road but cut short the session as the problem, described below, with my Voigtlander 40mm lens was getting worse with time.
As previously mentioned Dublin City Council is seeking to provide a 3.5km protected cycle lane on both sides of Griffith Avenue from Ballygall Road East as far as the Malahide Road. The main aim of this scheme is to provide protected, safe and continuous cycling for all ages and abilities along this route. This is especially important with the numbers of schools in the area as well as the different DCU campus locations.
To begin with the Voigtlander 40mm lens worked perfectly but when I got to Cremore Road it suddenly got colder I began to notice that the edges of the images captured by my camera were becoming blurred at the edges and as time passed the problem got much worse. After examining my equipment in detail I discovered that there was condensation inside the lens [why I don’t know]. I do not know how to prevent this happening in future especially as my apartment is very dry, maybe too dry.
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