Following a survey of Dublin street furniture by Derry O'Connell, Helen Lane and Paschal Murphy (inspired by a studio project in their first year of Architecture at the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin), O'Connell produced a comprehensive report for An Taisce, cataloguing and evaluating antique street furniture.
Foreword: Investigating street furniture
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Why Conserve?
Lamp Standards
A history of street lighting in Dublin
Some little facts about the standards
Detailed description of Dublin’s large antiques
Description of the lesser noticed standards
A look in detail at lamp post features
The lamplighters
Gaslamps still in use
Clip-on lamp brackets
The Street Floor
Georgian manholes
Setts - Dublin’s unique examples
Paving and the paviour’s skill
Oddments of the street floor
Those other objects
Post boxes and their history
Bollards - common and strange
Loos and standing things
Seats and horse troughs
The forgotten boroughs of Dublin
Where to find them
Key map - North City
Key map - South City
A walk by Fitzwilliam
A walk through the cobbles
O’Connell Bridge Mountjoy
Recommendations - extracts from An Taisce’s report
Lamp standards for conservation
Setts and objects of special attention
Transplant recommendations
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