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1958 – Filling Station, Fortfield Rd, Terenure, Dublin
Architect: Niall Montgomery

Wainsfort Filling Station, designed by architect and poet Niall Montgomery at a time when companies were increasingly aware of their visual appearance and identity.
https://www.archiseek.com/1958-filling-station-fortfield-rd-terenure-dublin/
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If you're in the Terenure area of Dublin you might be able to avail of the free electrical waste collection that I have organised for next Tuesday.

#Terenure #Recycling

Flyer for free electrical waste collection next Tuesday from 9.30am to 12.30pm in the area roughly bounded by Terenure Road North, Terenure Road West, Corrib Road and Mount Tallant Avenue.

Bushy Park Dublin duck pond #BushyPark #BushyParkDublin #Terenure #Dublin #Park

Pond water with an overgrown island with trees and bushes, and a dark foreboding sky

#BushyParkRun has been cancelled tomorrow morning after an inspection of the course identified icy conditions that won't have thawed in time to make it safe.

#Parkrun #BushyParkDublin #Terenure #Dublin

#Parkrun #BushyParkrun #Terenure #Dublin #Running

Sandwich board saying Bushy Parkrun number 279 with a chalk drawing of a lighthouse and the words: Give light and people will find the way (Ella Baker)

Bushy Parkrun number 278
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Sandwich board showing Bushy Parkrun #278

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Well done to all the hardy souls that got out of bed this morning to run and walk the #BushyParkRun in the torrential rain 🌧️ and wind 💨!!! And a massive thanks to all the #Volunteers that make it possible.
#BushyPark #Terenure #Dublin #ParkRun

Was good fun volunteering for #BushyParkRunDublin #ParkRun #Terenure #Dublin this morning. A lovely crisp, dry, but cold morning, with lots of lovely cheerful runners!

Display board showing Bushy Park Run number 267

1/2 Terenure in the 1900s, from Todd Andrews' book (now an ebook) Dublin Made Me #Terenure

Dublin Made Me

was Shaw’s Wood and the lake in Terenure College, which sometimes froze over and became a skating rink. It was surprising how many people had ice skates and were good at skating because it was seldom cold enough for the lakes and canals to freeze solid. We had no skates but we made ‘slides’ on the ice and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.

Shaw’s Wood and the River Dodder was our great stamping ground. Bushy Park was a large walled estate owned by an Anglo-Irish family named Shaw. They had been there for several generations, and Sir Frederick, his wife and daughter lived there when I was growing up. The estate was a great parkland bounded by Rathfarnham and Templeogue and by a bluff which sloped down to a swamp and the Dodder. There were beautiful trees, chestnuts, horse chestnuts, elms, oaks, walnuts and hawthorns; there were broad acres where in summer cows grazed up to their bellies in lush grass and where as you walked your shoes were yellowed by buttercups

Dublin Made Me

the Dodder was inaccessible to the public for a mile of its length, between the bridges at Rathfarnham and Templeogue. We children approached it over a wall or by a ledge under the big bridge, which was too small for adults to use. It was all ours. The only adults we ever saw there were a couple of fly fishermen from Terenure who fished in the evenings and as often as not caught as many bats as trout. An occasional dairyman would come looking for a beast that had strayed down the river.

In the ordinary way, the river was far too shallow for swimming. Here and there were holes which were perhaps three feet deep and at these holes we built dams with rocks and sods raising the level sometimes to as much as five feet and forming a pool which might stretch back twenty yards. We had three of these holes between Rathfarnham and Templeogue: the Mollies, the Gudgeon and the Bottoms. When floods came the dams were destroyed, but then it was fun to walk maybe two hundred yards back up

Dublin Made Me

buttercups. There were primroses and cowslips, and down in a swamp, which was known to us as The Hollow, there were all kinds of wild flowers, especially in the spring when it was covered with primroses and bluebells, which we used to collect and take to school for the May Altar. A low wall separated The Hollow from the river. The river bank was lined with sallies and alders and we fished there for trout and eels, using improvised equipment, i.e. a string, a ‘chandler’ and a bamboo cane. The chandler was a deadly bait which we collected from a butcher’s yard in Terenure. We learned about the riverside birds — kingfishers, wagtails and water hens — but we never found the nest of a kingfisher. From time to time we saw otters.

The greatest pleasure of all was swimming in the Dodder. It is a shallow, stony and narrow stream and very clear. Beginning in Kippure and running down through Glen na Smol, past Tem- pleogue, Terenure and Donnybrook it joins the Liffey at Ringsend. At the time of which I write,

Notice in the #Terenure #Aldi memorialising the old tram sheds that were on its site

Any idea where Avonmore Terrace was in 1911 @ccferrie? CS Andrews describes his family having settled in the middle of #Terenure, where his mother ran a small grocery and sweet shop, and from where his father went into Capel Street to his auctioneering business #ToddAndrews http://census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Terenure/Avonmore_Terrace/42002/

Tree down in #BushyPark #Terenure

It was my second week volunteering for the #BushyPark #Terenure #ParkRunIE and I was scanning the barcodes to link the finishing position to the person. I think there were over 220 runners and walkers. It's great that this free event can take place every week!

Hairy wrist with a yellow rubber wristband with Parkrun printed on it

The planning application for the #BusConnects Core Bus Corridor from Rathfarnham to the City Centre, including #Terenure #Rathgar and #Rathmines will be published on Thursday morning at : www.templeoguerathfarnhamscheme.ie

#PublicTransport #SustainableTransport

Up at Brews Sandwich choice #dublin #terenure

Before and after at the River Dodder stepping stones. The detritus on the steps has been annoying me all winter!
#RiverDodder #Rathfarnham #Terenure #BushyPark #Dublin #Cleanup #CitizenAction

Before and after shots of some outdoor steps. The mulch and mud had been cleared off in the after shot.

Terenure, Co. Dublin (The seat of Frederick Bourne, Esq.) from Dublin delineated in twenty-six views', (Dublin: printed for G. Tyrrell, 1837). The British Library. Public Domain.

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