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A cormorant dries its wings by the Dodder River at Clonskeagh in Dublin, Ireland

Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/PA

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SAINT KILIAN AND ST KILIAN'S GERMAN SCHOOL

I am still experimenting with Google Bard and used it to research St Killian but some of the information was somewhat doubtful. For example I could not confirm that the Town Of Killarney [referred to as a city by Bard] is named after St Killian. The Irish

ACCORDING TO GOOGLE’S BARD AI This modern statue is located at St Kilian’s German School on Roebuck Road in Clonskeagh. I am still experimenting with Google Bard and used it to research St Killian but some of the information was somewhat doubtful. For example I could not confirm that the Town Of Killarney [referred to as a city by Bard] is named after St Killian. The Irish for Killarney is Cill…

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THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL

The Church of the Immaculate Virgin Mary of the Miraculous Medal was built in 1965 but it has an interesting history.

THE LONGEST NAME FOR A CHURCH THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED Most people refer to this as Bird Avenue Church. I must admit that I was surprised by the number of electrical cables on view in my photographs. I worked for Ericsson which was located nearby and sadly as many employees lived in the parish I attended three funerals services held in this church but the last one was about ten years ago. The…

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MODERN STYLE STATUE OF SAINT KILIAN

St Kilian's was founded in the early 1950s, developing from the work of a Dublin charity, the Save the German Children Society, founded in 1945.

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BIRD AVENUE AND NEARBY [THE AREA IS DOMINATED BY A VERY LARGE CHURCH]-165599 by William Murphy Via Flickr: In the 1950s, Archbishop McQuaid did not tolerate any challenges to his self awarded authority and this frequently led to occasional tensions with secular elements in society. And when I was young I was at the receiving end but is is a complicated story which I will not discuss here. One famous conflict, which McQuaid totally won, was over the design of a new church on Bird Avenue in Clonskeagh. The competition attracted a record 101 entries and the submissions which most impressed the assessors were all modernist in style but the winning entry was a design by Thomas J Ryan, a young architect employed with the OPW.

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FOLLOWING THE DODDER RIVER [FROM MILLTOWN TO CLONSKEAGH]-165450 by William Murphy Via Flickr: The Dodder lay well beyond the original city of Dublin but began to have an important impact in the 13th century, when water from its course was diverted to boost the small Poddle River, which in turn did supply fresh water to parts of Dublin. Over centuries, the Dodder and its tributaries drove many mills, crucial to Dublin's industrial base, but all are now disused. In many cases, all traces have been erased but there are some indications, such as of millraces. The de Meones family, who gave their name to the nearby suburb of Rathmines, owned a mill in that area as early as the mid-fourteenth century.In the sixteenth century much of the surrounding lands belonged to the Talbot family, ancestors of the Talbots of Mount Talbot. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Domvile family, who owned much of Templeogue, effectively controlled access to much of the river, which passed through their estates. At that time the Dodder was the main source of Dublin's drinking water, and whether fairly or unfairly, the Domviles were accused of using their control of the Dublin water supply to further their own selfish ends, by threatening to divert its course if their wishes were not met. In fact the legal right to control the course of the river was vested in the Mayor and Corporation of Dublin; this was confirmed by a legal ruling as early as 1527. The Dodder rises on the northern slopes of Kippure in the Wicklow Mountains and is formed from several streams. The headwaters flow from Kippure Ridge, and include, and are often mapped solely as, Tromanallison (Allison's Brook), which is then joined by Mareen's Brook, including the Cataract of the Brown Rowan, and then the combined flow meeting the Cot and Slade Brooks. In the river's valley at Glenasmole are the two Bohernabreena Reservoirs, a major part of the Dublin water supply system. The Dodder is 26 kilometres (16 mi) long. It passes the Dublin suburbs of Tallaght and then Firhouse, travels by Templeogue, passes Rathfarnham, Rathgar, Milltown, Clonskeagh, and Donnybrook, and goes through Ballsbridge and past Sandymount, before entering the Liffey near Ringsend, along with the Grand Canal, at Grand Canal Dock. There is a weir just above the bridge at Ballsbridge and the river becomes tidal roughly where the bridge at Lansdowne Road crosses it. The Dodder and the River Tolka are Dublin's second-largest rivers, after the Liffey.

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FROM MILLTOWN TO CLONSKEAGH

FROM MILLTOWN TO CLONSKEAGH

FOLLOWING THE DODDER RIVER FROM MILLTOWN TO CLONSKEAGH

The Dodder lay well beyond the original city of Dublin but began to have an important impact in the 13th century, when water from its course was diverted to boost the small Poddle River, which in turn did supply fresh water to parts of Dublin.

Over centuries, the Dodder and its tributaries drove many mills, crucial to Dublin’s…

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CHURCH OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL [A HUGE RED BRICK CHURCH]-165401 by William Murphy Via Flickr: This church is located on Bird Avenue and I lasted visited it about ten years ago when I attended a funeral. The Church of the Immaculate Virgin Mary of the Miraculous Medal was built in 1965 but it has an interesting history. Back in 1954, a competition was held to design a Catholic Church in Clonskeagh. It had to be large enough to accommodate 1,700 people, and cost no more than £150,000. More than a hundred submissions were received which was a record at the time. All shortlisted proposals were modernist designs but, mysteriously, the building that was eventually selected by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid was not one of them.