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West Wall in Dublin

veryangryman · 2020-02-25 08:03:41

I always knew the East Wall and North Wall areas. Just discovered a South Wall by Poolbeg. Is or was there ever a West Wall to complete the logic? Any good historians that can fill a brother in?

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25-02-2020 9:03am

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veryangryman

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I always knew the East Wall and North Wall areas. Just discovered a South Wall by Poolbeg. Is or was there ever a West Wall to complete the logic?

Any good historians that can fill a brother in?

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#2 25-02-2020 9:46am
neris

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I think the walls were referring to the port and shipping coming into dublin and the location of each wall/pier when built. The river flows west to east so a west wall would have just blocked the liffey. The whole area down around east wall/parts of fairview & parts of poolbeg & dublin port didnt exist a few hundred years ago until the walls were built to make it safer for ships to get into dublin and silting and land reclaiming took place

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