LIT area roundabout

c.p.w.g.w

Hey,

I'm looking for some information and pictures of what the area around LIT was like 25 or so years ago...I have heard that Brookville Avenue was split in 2 via the road in the below picture

OfTheMarsWongs

The 1995 Aerial map on http://map.geohive.ie/mobile.html might be what you are looking for.

Brian Lighthouse

No, it wasn't ever split in two.
You drew around Brookville Avenue, please mark where you think it may have been dissected, I can remember a way through to the back of the Davin Arms (Lidl)

adaminho

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Hey,

I'm looking for some information and pictures of what the area around LIT was like 25 or so years ago...I have heard that Brookville Avenue was split in 2 via the road in the below picture

Brookville has always been laid out like that. Main road down the middle and the two side streets down the side. There used to be a shop half way down on the left heading to the Ennis road.

adaminho

Brian Lighthouse wrote: »

No, it wasn't ever split in two.
You drew around Brookville Avenue, please mark where you think it may have been dissected, I can remember a way through to the back of the Davin Arms (Lidl)

I think there's still a pedestrian walkway from Meadowsprings? It's been a while since I was out that direction.

c.p.w.g.w

adaminho wrote: »

Brookville has always been laid out like that. Main road down the middle and the two side streets down the side. There used to be a shop half way down on the left heading to the Ennis road.

I was led to believe that the main road was only added when the roundabout was built. And the construction led to residents association having to be broken up

Brian Lighthouse

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

I was led to believe that the main road was only added when the roundabout was built. And the construction led to residents association having to be broken up

No.

Brian Lighthouse

adaminho wrote: »

I think there's still a pedestrian walkway from Meadowsprings? It's been a while since I was out that direction.

No, All blocked off.

sioda

Brookville is identical to when it was first built.

The major changes are on the LIT side. From the one story college in the 80s to the campus that is there now. Meadow springs at the bottom of Brookville and Coleraine over at the end of Brookville gardens are the only main estate changes

bazz26

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

I was led to believe that the main road was only added when the roundabout was built. And the construction led to residents association having to be broken up

Nope, that road was there since at least the 1970s, the roundabout is there since the early 1990s when LIT got a major overhaul/expansion.

Wackoy2k

Where the roundabout is now, used to be a green with the old Cratloe road joining the link road as a T junction. Played many a game of rugby, soccer and rounders there. Gardens Vs Avenue. It was a nightmare playing from top to bottom as if you took a shot and the goalie didnt stop it, you would be running half way down the hill to get the ball.

Brookville Avenue was always there way it is now by the way. Only change was T-Junction changed to Roundabout when LIT was developed.