#Drumcondra

Drumcondra Castle, Drumcondra – Currently used as a school for the blind, the current building sits on the site of an Elizabethan castle built by a John Bathe, c1560 (apparently
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A sequence of #maps teasing out the story of the #mills on the #Tolka in #Drumcondra, west of the bridge, beginning with Rocque 1757 again. Note the mill race, island
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St. John the Baptist Church, Drumcondra – The present church, dating to 1741, actually sits on the site of a church dating back many hundreds of years. Belonging to the
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Belvedere House, Drumcondra – Situated in the grounds of DCU´s St. Patricks Campus, this red brick building always caught my eye as I bused into work. Amazingly, its history can
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Irish music! I’d be lost without music. I listen to it religiously, and we have such incredible homegrown talent. The below is a *long thread* of some of the ones
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