Artificial Lake At the Coombe

Planemo

Does anyone know what the story is about that massive pond/lake at the Coombe (beside St.Brigid's?). I know it was meant to be apartments and I presume the developers went under, but how/why is the water there? And who's responsibility is it to take it out?

Toby Take a Bow

Where exactly is it? I know the Coombe, but don't know St Brigid's. Is it the Cathedral View or whatever development across from the convent?

Planemo

just before you turn onto Patrick's street, across from Roma chipper/99 cent shop

tony 2 tone

How/why is there water there? Rain :rolleyes:

Toby Take a Bow

tony 2 tone wrote: »

How/why is there water there? Rain :rolleyes:

Well, there could be an issue if it's accumulating and not evaporating (I presume that's what's going on here). Right beside a school, so might attract rats (rats like water, right?).

Elmar Fudd

I didn't know it existed so I looked for an aerial view. I'll be darned - there it is. It must be part of the underground River Poddle.

Planemo

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Well, there could be an issue if it's accumulating and not evaporating (I presume that's what's going on here). Right beside a school, so might attract rats (rats like water, right?).

yeah that's the point - it has to be at least 4 ft deep and it's been like that for ages.

Wishbone Ash

Elmar Fudd wrote: »

I didn't know it existed

I didn't know it was there until I spotted it when upstairs on a bus last week (It's not visible at street level because of hoardings). Was wondering about it myself.

irishguy

If you look at google maps it looks like they were in the process of building apartments. So they must have dug the foundations and they filled up with water.

JuliusCaesar

I've always wondered what that American phrase, "a swimming hole" meant - now I know!

Wishbone Ash

irishguy wrote: »

must have dug the foundations and they filled up with water.

I think the question is why these particular foundations have filled with water as there are other abandoned deeper sites which haven't become waterlogged. As Elmar has said, they must be beside an underground river.

spurious

From Chambers:
coomb, coombe, comb or combe noun
1 in S England: a short deep valley.
2 a deep hollow in a hillside.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon cumb valley.

The Poddle is around those parts.

Stumbled across this about the Poddle.

http://karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs/2010/06/the-poddle/

Toby Take a Bow

From old maps of Dublin (and I'm probably wrong), the Poddle comes down New Row South, and meets either another branch of the Poddle or a different river coming down The Coombe, which would sandwich this place between the two branches. The river itself has probably been diverted though, maybe underneath this proposed development?

Gavin "shels"

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

From old maps of Dublin (and I'm probably wrong), the Poddle comes down New Row South, and meets either another branch of the Poddle or a different river coming down The Coombe, which would sandwich this place between the two branches. The river itself has probably been diverted though, maybe underneath this proposed development?

That's the way the Poddle goes anyway, the other river could be part of the River Camac maybe, not sure if it goes down that far.

The proposed development is definitely out the window, it's was meant to start years ago.

RebelButtMunch

How long before a child dies there I wonder?

Dodge

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

How long before a child dies there I wonder?

Thats the spirit!


Passed it a few times by bus but somehow always presumed it was just rain related flooding.

Toby Take a Bow

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

How long before a child dies there I wonder?

There's a school right beside it, so you never know.