7 thoughts on “Looking For Rubble?”

  1. JL

    Good to see the Brits left the GPO standing but leveled their main target…….that poohole Pennys.

  2. Slightly Bemused

    I am not sure if this is true but the story I was told was that all that rubble was moved to Croke Park and became Hill 16.

    1. Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop

      No, that’s a myth afaik, it was built in 1915 and called Hill 60 originally.

      1. Cian

        Wikipedia says (without any sources):

        When Croke Park was first used for Gaelic games, the Railway End of the park was little more than a mound of earth. Its name was originally “Hill 60”. That name came from a hill of the same name in Gallipoli on which the Connaught Rangers suffered heavy casualties in late August 1915. Contrary to common belief, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers did not participate in the Battle of Hill 60, although the latter regiment did lose heavily during the wider Gallipoli campaign (including at ‘V’ Beach, Cape Helles, the previous April).

        “Hill 60” was used as a name throughout the 1920s and 1930s, until senior GAA figures decided it would be inappropriate to have a section of Croke Park named after a battle involving an Irish unit of the British Army. So “Hill 60” became Hill 16, a name that would link it instead to 1916, and the story emerged that it had been built from the ruins of Dublin’s main thoroughfare O’Connell Street.

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