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Sign post on Inns Quay

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Sign post on Inns Quay
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Pair of round-headed granite boundary markers, erected c.1820, located on Inns Quay and Arran Quay to east and west of Father Mathew Bridge. Marker to Inns Quay to east of bridge contains fragment of cast-iron plaque ‘INNS QUA-‘ to its north elevation, set in rectangular carved recess. Situated adjacent to balustrade…

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Pair of round-headed granite boundary markers, erected c.1820, located on Inns Quay and Arran Quay to east and west of Father Mathew Bridge. Marker to Inns Quay to east of bridge contains fragment of cast-iron plaque ‘INNS QUA-‘ to its north elevation, set in rectangular carved recess. Situated adjacent to balustrade quay wall on granite plinth, set in recent paving. Marker to Arran Quay to west of bridge has cast-iron pins to rectangular recess, showing evidence of former cast-iron plaque. Set in recent concrete paving, adjacent to granite quay wall.
This pair of markers indicate the boundary between Inns Quay Ward and Arran Quay Ward. The materials are noteworthy, with granite probably quarried in nearby Wicklow, and cast-iron that is a reminder of cast-iron manufacture in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The granite quay walls, first constructed in the 1680s by William Ellis and further developed in the eighteenth century by John Ellis, add to the pair's setting and context. The markers' sites are shown occupied by houses on Rocque’s 1756 map and by the time of the first edition Ordnance Survey map in 1837, the area had been cleared of houses and it is likely that the markers were in place by this time. The boundary markers are identified by the initials ‘B.M.’ on the 1907 Ordnance Survey map.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50070503

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