What was in Doneraille walk

rasper

Straight down the botton of the hill from the cannon, there's a concrete slab footing (whatever 12foot by 12 foot roughly) right beside cliff edge , its walled off from the rest of the park, what was there , someone told me a bandstand but looks more like there may have been possibly a childrens playground there

mike65

That's where the Cannon used to sit.

longshanks

A hanging post for captured babrbary pirates which was later used as a look out post for shooting stars, german submarines and aurora borealis.

ex_infantry man

rasper wrote: »

Straight down the botton of the hill from the cannon, there's a concrete slab footing (whatever 12foot by 12 foot roughly) right beside cliff edge , its walled off from the rest of the park, what was there , someone told me a bandstand but looks more like there may have been possibly a childrens playground there

how old are you that ya don,t remember where the cannon used to be positioned????

rasper

Steady on , I'm not from Tramore originally
Don't know where things used to be

mike65

Blow in! :mad:

rasper

mike65 wrote: »

Blow in! :mad:

Like half the town or the locals must have been breeding like rabbitts for the last 10-15 years

mike65

Indeed, When I lived in Tramore as a child the place had a population of about 3,500, its now about 10,500 I think.

Guramoogah

Back in the 1950s, there used to be a tea room down there. It was a wooden structure and went up in flames one night. In the 1960s, the cannon was placed there on a wooden frame, which disintegrated and the cannon rested on the ground throughout the 1980s. There was a second cannon, by the way, which somehow found it's way into the garden of the large house alongside the Coast Guard station (used to be Slatterys')