16 thoughts on “Get Your Rocks Off”

  3. Cian

    Can you imagine the physical labour that was needed to build Dun Laoghaire harbour 200 years ago? Moving millions of tons of rock from Dalkey into the sea. And not a mechanical digger in sight.

    2. BTBarnham

      Can you imagine the sheer explotation of the poor bastardos… lugging huge cuts of granite down The Metals

      1. rotide

        Just the other day I saw the working poor being exploited on a building site. I’d saw the evil foreman are witholding their passports and feeding them bread and water untill the building is finished.

    3. Donal

      Steam powered machines of some description to assist in getting rock from rockface on to cart/train? Steam train to harbour?
      It was hardly all moved by horse drawn cart?
      Can it be assumed that none of the foundations of the existing pier are rocks of the size being hurled into the sea in these pics?

      1. Cian

        Can it be assumed that none of the foundations of the existing pier are rocks of the size being hurled into the sea in these pics?

        I don’t know how big these new stones are – but some of the rock in the existing pier are as big as a car.

      2. Termagant

        The Metals that run from Dalkey to Dun Laoghaire are what remains of the rail line between the quarry and the harbour

        1. Dub Spot

          The Amazon warehouse of the day.

          http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2018/01/09/history-dun-laoghaire-harbour-construction-compromise/

          The construction of the piers involved trundling wagons of stone along the tramway from Dalkey to the pier, where the contents were deposited in the sea by means of a timber tipping frame. A diving bell was used to help guide the stones into the right positions and experience soon showed that the action of waves during storms helped to settle the stones down onto the sea bed.

          1. Brother Barnabas

            after that the metals was used as the route for a vacuum-powered railway linking dalkey with dun Laoghaire. first if its kind in the world, built by william dragon. the metals is actually called atmospheric road, to the bemusement of many. it was only in operation for a few years but had a huge impact around the world: was an influence on brunel and was the model used for subsequent saint-germain atmospheric railway in paris

  5. Kdoc

    If it’s for the Baths I hope it works out better than Clontarf baths. following renovation the public have no access.

    1. Cian

      The public have had no access to Dun Laoghaire baths for 50-odd years (except a brief respite in the 80s for ‘rainbow rapids’ – which you had to pay for). They have been an eyesore all those years.

      The current plan is to remove the water part of the ‘baths’ and put a walkway there instead so you can walk from the harbour to Sandycove beside the shore. The building is being converted into a café and artists studios. They are putting a 15m pier (which is what the picture above is about) out to allow swimmers get into deep water clear of the rocks at low tide.

      https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/architecture/dlr-baths

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