Circa 1900.
You’ll never get it.
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Update: Via Archiseek.com:
Temporary gateway erected for the visit of Queen Victoria to Dublin in 1900. A ceremonial affair, the Queen was to enter the city boundaries and be given the keys to the city by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. Described in The Irish Times as “the old city gates, a handsome representation of which is to be erected at the entrance of the municipal boundary at Leeson Street Bridge [Dublin].
Thanks Sibling
Cabra West
Thurles
Leeson St Bridge
Agreed, Leeson St Bridge, built for some King’s visit
+1…the queen she came to call on us
she wanted to see all of us
I’m glad she didn’t fall on us
she’s eighteen stone
Its the visit where the term Jackeen came from; i.e. all the Dubs waiving their Union Jacks. Not that there is anything wrong with people waiving the foreign flag of a visiting dignitary.
CORRECT!
http://www.worldirish.com/listening-post/view/a-castle-on-grand-canal-bridge-circa-1900-862
Well done!
Yep – featured on the NLI Flickr feed about 4 months ago.
What became of it?
Cork?
Leeson St bridge.
Macroom?
I Remember the trams in macroom 2/6 to the top o the town & an ice cream in the milk bar etc ….
Kilmainham?
Drogheda
Yep Leeson Street Bridge. Built for a Royal visit
Eustace Bridge FTW
Leeson Street, Dublin : )
IFSC?
Drogheda.
You must wonder why they took it down; its not like they had fibreglass in those days!!!
As if we didnt have enough castles in Ireland to show off, we go and build another one
Youghal – come back now, y’here!
crowd amassing for pogrom?
Clonmel?
Rathfarnham, that’s the Castle on the left
Dude How did you do that? Is that some new google search img thingy?
Anne Doyle’s rock feature.
Agreed!
Isengard?
ATHLONE?
A Triumphal Arch;
http://archiseek.com/tag/triumphal-arches/
Apparently there was one on O’ Connell Street too.
apparently it was eaten in the 1913 Dublin lock out
Is it Killary Harbour (Royal version)
Shouldn’t the title be “Where was this”. It (the central structure) ISN’T anywhere now …. well maybe the stones were re-used.
Yez are too smart for yer own good.
They had a tradition of a triumphal arch for each royal visit, at which the royal visitor was officially given the city quays. It was a different arch each time, always situate at one of the municipal boundaries.
More here, together with links to pictures of the other arches.
http://archiseek.com/2012/1900-royal-triumphal-archway-leeson-street-dublin/#.UD4K5Ef4J3I
Another quessie:- some film footage of the 1900 Royal Visit, taken from what looks to me to be just outside Dublin castle, what do yez think?
‘keys’, not ‘quays’
*groans*
@SDaedalus… you didn’t? …Jesuit Bishops you DID!
Thanks for the video though :)
Apparently it was simply a painted canvas on a wooden frame, there were no bricks or mortar. Cudos to whoever painted it
The English market is just into the left
It’s Killiney!
It was a monument to a British Monarch built at a bridge over one of the Dublin Canals. Not sure which Canal?