Dublin Lunar Walk 2012
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20K ROUTE STARTING AT THE AISLING HOTEL 1 Exit the Ashling Hotel and turn left on Parkgate Street. 2 Turn right onto Temple Street West and walk towards the quays. 3 Turn left onto Wolfe Tone Quay. 4 Continue walking along the quays past Collins Barracks and the Four Courts. 5 Continue walking along quays past O’Connell Street and the Customs House. 6 Continue past the Jeanie Johnston and turn right onto the Samuel Beckett Bridge. 7 Turn left onto Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. 8 Turn right onto Forbes Street and then continue straight onto Lower Grand Canal Quay. 9 At end of the street turn left onto Lower Grand Canal Street and then immediate right on to Clanwilliam Place. 10 Turn left to cross the canal at the bottom of Lower Mount Street and onto Northumberland Road. 11 Continue straight onto Pembroke Road and past Herbert Park. 12 Continue straight onto Merrion Road and past the RDS. 13 Continue along the road past St. Vincent’s Hospital and the Tara Towers Hotel and onto Rock Road. REFRESHMENT & TOILET STOP - TARA TOWERS HOTEL 14 Continue straight until you reach Blackrock at the corner of Mount Merrion Avenue. 15 Turn right onto Mount Merrion Avenue for the 20k route or continue straight through Blackrock for the 30K route (see below). 16 Continue until the end of the road and turn right onto Stillorgan Road. 23 Turn right along St. Stephen’s Green East, turn left 17 Follow Stillorgan Road past UCD. at the Shelbourne Hotel and right on to Kildare Street. 18 Continue on to Donnybrook Road and through Donnybrook. 24 Turn left on to Nassau Street and continue around Trinity 19 Continue on to Morehampton Road and then Leeson Street Upper. College onto College Green and into Westmoreland Street. 20 Continue onto Sussex Street past the Burligton Hotel. 25 Before O’Connell Bridge turn left onto Aston Quay. REFRESHMENT & TOILET STOP - BURLINGTON HOTEL 26 Continue along the quays towards Heuston Station. 21 Continue straight on to Leeson Street Lower. 27 Turn right and cross the river at Sean Heuston Bridge (LUAS Bridge). 22 Continue straight on to St. Stephen’s Green. FINISHING AT THE AISLING HOTEL 10K LOOP ROUTE STARTING AT BLACKROCK 7 Take the next left on to Clarence Street. 1 Turn left down Rock Hill towards Blackrock and onto Main Street. 8 At the next junction take a right on to Cumberland Street. 2 Continue straight on to Newtown Avenue. 9 Continue on to Longford Place and then Monkstown Road. 3 Follow the road around to the right and then turn left on to Seapoint Avenue. 10 Continue straight through Monkstown and straight on towards Temple Road and Frascati 4 Continue straight on to Longford Terrace and then Dunleary Road onto Crofton Road. Road. 5 At the DART/Railway Station turn left on to Harbour Road. 11 Continue straight on to Rock Road. REFRESHMENT & TOILET STOP - OUTSIDE IRISH LIGHTS BUILDING 12 At corner of Rock Road and Mount Merrion Avenue turn left onto Mount Merrion Avenue (point 15 above). 6 Continue along Harbour Road until you can rejoin to your left Crofton Road over the railway bridge. NOW JOIN THE 20K ROUTE SITES OF INTEREST ALONG THE 20K ROUTE AND THE 10K LOOP ROUTE 1 COLLINS BARRACKS 2 FR. MATTHEW BRIDGE 3 THE FOUR COURTS 20K ROUTE 20K ROUTE 20K ROUTE Opened in 1701, Collins Barracks Another of the original 5 Celtic Work began back in 1776 on the was one of the oldest and largest roads leading to Father Matthew Public Records Office designed barracks in Europe throughout Bridge, the site of the original by Thomas Cooley. Following the 18th Century, housing 5,000 crossing point of the river. This his death, the designer James men. The last soldiers marched was the Áth Cliath - the ford of Gandon took control of the out of here in 1997. To the front hurdles - that gives Dublin its project and designed most of of the building is the Croppy Irish name today. what we know as the Four Acre, a mass grave for rebels Courts today. involved in the 1798 rebellion. 4 HA’PENNY BRIDGE 5 O’CONNELL BRIDGE 6 O’CONNELL MONUMENT 20K ROUTE 20K ROUTE 20K ROUTE Constructed in 1816 in Coal- Opened as Carlisle Bridge in Unveiled in 1882 to coincide brookdale, the bridge is fully 1794 and designed by James with the opening of the newly cast-iron and was Dublin’s first Gandon, it was widened in the renamed O’Connell Bridge the ever metal bridge. Though it late 1870s and reopened as statue was designed by John was officially named The Liffey O’Connell Bridge in 1882. It is Henry Foley. Evidence of the Bridge, its ubiquitous moniker thought to be the only bridge in 1916 Rising can be seen in the drives from the halfpenny toll Europe that is wider then it is many bullet holes peppering the charged to cross the bridge upon long (it is 50m wide and spans statue. its opening. 45m). 7 CUSTOMS HOUSE 8 FAMINE STATUES 9 JEANIE JOHNSTON 20K ROUTE 20K ROUTE 20K ROUTE Designed by James Gandon and Unveiled in 1997, the famine This recreation of the famous opened in 1791, the imposing statues are the work of Dublin famine ship of the same name, structure was used to collect sculptor Rowan Gillespie. They was built between 1992 and customs duties until the port of show starving men and women 2002. The original made 17 Dublin moved further east. The beginning their arduous journey voyages to America carrying interior and dome were damaged to foreign lands with an arduous over 2,500 Irish to their new during the War of Independence, walk to the waiting ships. home. Remarkably not a single evidence of which can be seen in life was lost in the process - in the different colour stone on the great contrast to the majority of cupola. ‘coffin’ ships. SAMUEL BECKETT BRIDGE HERBERT PARK BOOTERSTOWN MARSH 10 20K ROUTE 11 20K ROUTE 12 20K ROUTE Dublin’s newest bridge and the Situated on the site of the Dublin A fascinating home to many second to be designed by San- International Exhibition and on kinds of flora and fauna due to tiago Calatrava (the other being land donated by the Earl of its mix of salt and freshwater, the James Joyce Bridge near Pembroke, the park as we know Booterstown Marsh is one of the Heuston Station). The design is it today opened in 1911. The few marshes left in the city due reminiscent of an Irish harp and bandstand still dates from the to reclamation of land. swings open to allow boat traffic exhibition in 1907. through. 13 BLACKROCK 1 DUN LAOGHAIRE 2 MONKSTOWN 20K ROUTE & 10K LOOP ROUTE 10K LOOP ROUTE 10K LOOP ROUTE Originally a fishing village, the Originally the site of an ancient Once the site of an ancient name is thought to derive from Gaelic fort (or dún) of King castle, whose substantial ruins the limestone in the area that Laoghaire, the harbour town still exist, Monkstown quickly turned black when wet. was renamed Kingstown in 1821 established itself as a wealthy in honour of the visit of King suburb of Dublin in the mid-19th George lV. It reverted back to century. Dún Laoghaire in the 1920s. UCD BELFIELD DONNYBROOK ST. STEPHEN’S GREEN 14 20K ROUTE 15 20K ROUTE 16 20K ROUTE Essentially founded by John For many years home to the Named after local leper hospital Henry Newman in 1854, UCD infamous Donnybrook Fair, first of St. Stephen, in medieval times was situated across the city for instituted in 1204 by grant of the area was home to common many years until it began to King John, it finally stopped grounds for purpose of grazing, make its move to Belfield in the hosting the event in 1855 when archery practice and public 60s. The last department moved the license was bought by a executions. The current square to this modern campus in 2007. group determined to end the was laid out in the late 1800s at spectacle that was the centre of the behest of A.E. Guinness, the rowdy and drunken behaviour grandson of Arthur, and then for hundreds of years. given over to the State. 17 TRINITY COLLEGE CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL THE BRAZEN HEAD 20K ROUTE 18 20K ROUTE 19 20K ROUTE Founded in 1592, Trinity is by far While a wooden church stood on The oldest pub in Dublin can the oldest university in Ireland this site since 1030, the Normans trace its license back to 1198. and retains links with colleges in began construction of a stone However, this was the site of the Oxford and Cambridge. Alas, cathedral shortly after their original crossing point of the arrival. Thus its crypt has a legit- river (the Ford of Hurdles that nothing remains of the original imate claim towards being the gives Dublin its current Irish college, though the front square oldest structure in the city. The name), and thus it is likely that is a fantastic example of Georgian upper portion of the cathedral has a tavern has existed here since architecture. received extensive renovation, Celtic times. most recently in the 1800s. Design & Production: Pat Liddy & Kaelleon Design Limited.