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3 unusual facts about Liffey


Amiens Street, Dublin

Further up the street with an over bridge carrying the DART (en route to Tara Street across the Liffey) over the street to the North Strand Road heading towards Fairview.

Fiach McHugh O'Byrne

O'Byrne had remained in the Liffey valley with Baltinglas, but at the approach of the crown army he withdrew into Glenmalure.

Hollywood, County Wicklow

About 3 km northeast of the village is the picturesque Poulaphouca, where the Liffey cascades in three stages.


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Conall Guthbinn

Conall next appears at the Battle of Áth Goan in western Liffey in 633.

E. W. Pugin

It has the tallest spire in Dublin (231 ft), and occupies a prominent position on high ground overlooking the Liffey Valley.

Edward Dorins

The Dorins's house was raided by Auxiliaries in February 1921 and he was beaten up and thrown into the Liffey at the Grattan Bridge.

Ha'penny Bridge

Originally called the Wellington Bridge (after the Duke of Wellington), the name of the bridge changed to Liffey Bridge.

Islandbridge

Island Bridge and the surrounding area are so named because of the island formed here by the meeting of the Camac and Liffey rivers further downstream.

John Dardis

The governmented then established an Independent Salmon Group to review policy, and the group's report in October 2006 recommended radical measures to halt "the catastrophic decline of Irish salmon stocks", including both a ban drift nets and on angling for salmon in major rivers including the Liffey, Boyne, Barrow, Nore and Suir.

Liffey Valley Shopping Centre

An associated retail park, (The Retail Park, Liffey Valley), is nearby, with several warehouse-style stores, including PC World, Currys, Carpet Right, Argos, also of note is B&Q and Halfords retail outlets.

Patsy Touhey

Asked whether Touhey's recordings had influenced his own playing, Gildas replied, "No, I was learning the pipes at the time." However generally pipers were in awe of Touhey's playing; Séamus Ennis, writing in the liner notes of Dublin fiddler Tommy Potts's Liffey Banks LP, said that he and his father considered Touhey's playing "hyper-phenomenal," and that he considered Touhey "the best of the men who came before my father."

Royal Hibernian Military School

The buildings housing the school were erected in 1771 in the Phoenix Park, overlooking the village of Chapelizod in the Liffey valley (in full view of Wicklow mountains).

Wood Quay

This bridge which resembles Westminster Bridge in London was until the 18th century the most easterly and therefore the closest to the sea of the Liffey Bridges.


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