Elizabeth Birdthistle

4 days ago | irishtimes.com | Elizabeth Birdthistle

Wexford has a rich history of mills dating from the 17th century, reflecting the area’s industrial and agricultural past. These included industrial mills, watermills and tidal mills at the head of a small inlet on the Wexford coastline. The town, today known as Saltmills, takes its name from tidal mills constructed by monks to harness the power of the tide to grind their grain into flour.

4 days ago | irishtimes.com | Elizabeth Birdthistle

Wexford has a rich history of mills dating from the 17th century, reflecting the area’s industrial and agricultural past. These included industrial mills, watermills and tidal mills at the head of a small inlet on the Wexford coastline. The town, today known as Saltmills, takes its name from tidal mills constructed by monks to harness the power of the tide to grind their grain into flour.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Elizabeth Birdthistle

The popular and much sought-after suburb of Foxrock began life in the late 1850s, when the Bentley and Fox families imagined a garden suburb in what was then a wilderness in comparison to the busy Dublin city-centre smog. Their planned self-contained community, designed to have plenty of green spaces and leisure facilities, began with the roads of Westminster, Brighton and Torquay, which at that time had access to the city via the Harcourt Street railway line.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Elizabeth Birdthistle

Veering off Ranelagh Road, parallel to the entrance to Mountpleasant Square, is Mountpleasant Place. On the right-hand side – before the stretch becomes Oxford Road – lies 6 Mountpleasant Place: a fully refurbished two-bedroom house. It appears on the Property Price Register as having sold in January this year for the sum of €525,000, when the 67sq m (720sq ft) redbrick house had an F Ber and needed upgrading. Now fully renovated with a B3 Ber, all new owners will have to do is unpack.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Elizabeth Birdthistle

Dodder Road Lower, beside the gentle murmur of the Dodder river, was developed between the 1930s and 1970s. Number 56, which has just been launched to the market, was constructed in about 1956 along with three identical semidetached neighbours. Its location is becoming a sought-after spot due to recent improvements in the area: The newly developed Dodder greenway passes along the road and restrictions to through-traffic have resulted in a much lower volume of traffic.