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Dublin 8, also rendered as D8 and D08, is a postal district in Dublin. Dublin 8 is one of only two postal districts to span the River Liffey . While the majority of the district's built up areas are on the southside , it also includes northside areas such as the vast Phoenix Park . [ 1 ]
Plan of Dublin Google Map interface; 1821 Maps of the county of Dublin William Duncan 8 sheets. Duncan was commissioned by the Dublin Grand Jury to produce a set of maps of Dublin for administrative and planning uses. Southern 4 sheets [layer "Duncan (1821)"] 1835 Leigh's new pocket road-book of Ireland: Published by Leigh & Son 1836
William Wilson (fl. 1769-1801) (map maker) Benjamin Baker (1766-1841) (engraver) Other versions This file has an extracted image : 1798 map Post Office in College Green.jpg .
The building was demolished in the years following the map and was replaced by a modern Georgian hospital building in 1759 the facade of which still stands today and forms part of a complex of buildings owend by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The image was later copied and used as the illustration on tickets for Handel's Messiah in 1742.
The defences of Dublin would eventually fall into disrepair but continued to serve a purpose as late as 1762 when the auction of the rights to collect tolls at each of the then seven city gates raised £4,000 for the city. [4] Below is a list of the historic Gates of Dublin along the city's ancient boundaries:
Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
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This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0 2010-03-06T20:43:33Z Rannpháirtí anaithnid 1450x1807 (679207 Bytes) Fix incorrectly coloured isands.