Monkstown Stream

[farmboy]

See what gettin outa bed at 4 30 in the mornin does to me brain!

[farmboy]

There you go.

Havin said that.......it is referred to here.

[grammer]

[Strum]

[Micheál]

I give up! Where?

[grammer]

Now that photo is a goody
Where ??? I dunno.
Shanganagh maybe or the back of the shopping centre (supervalue clonkeen rd.)
once again Strum that photo is a goody.

[Rocker]

Looks like a very old crossing. Too dry to be behind Clonkeen Road. ????? no idea.

[Micheál]

Grammer, Rocker

Tsk, tsk

Read the topic title. :)

M

[Holla]

I'm going to guess Glenageary woods

[skins]

Not at the Abbey, no?

[Strum]

Spot on Holla. It's underground there but rises in the Golf course like a small pond, then back underground again and down to Monkstown. I think?

[Rocker]

Strum,

You will have to take the thickos like me who don't know where the Glenageary Woods are on a walking tour of "get to knoe your town"...before Hitler takes over!!

Great to have you back taking photos.

[Strum]

Thanks Rocker. Glenageary Woods is a housing Estate beside the Golf course. When I was growing up it was private property with a ...Woods... and a Grand old Mansion which is still there. "Glenageary House" If I'm walking back from D/L to Sallynoggin I usually go through there from Royal Terrace. Nice walk. Saves trudging up Glenageary hill.

[skins]

Thanks Rocker. Glenageary Woods is a housing Estate beside the Golf course. When I was growing up it was private property with a ...Woods... and a Grand old Mansion which is still there. "Glenageary House" If I'm walking back from D/L to Sallynoggin I usually go through there from Royal Terrace. Nice walk. Saves trudging up Glenageary hill.

Back in the 60s a Nigerian family named Hecksher lived in that house. The father was, I think, a diplomat in the Nigerian Embassy. The two sons were excellent athletes and rugby players, and the daughter did some modelling.

[Micheál]

Spot on Holla. It's underground there but rises in the Golf course like a small pond, then back underground again and down to Monkstown. I think?

Arghhhh! Read the flippin' Topic Title!!
Yiz are all talking about Billinclea Stream (see seperate topic on this)
Mickey Brien must be doing water wheel impressions in his grave.

Monkstown Stream runs from beyond Stradbook (gettit?) then along the inland side of Monkstown Road, joining Mickey Briens at Monkstown Hospital ( that was).

[Rocker]

Micheál,

Did we not tell you before that most of usses mitched a lot from school. The real thinking boys and girls played in the woods, sat on the rocks at Seapoint, played in Blackrock Park when the lads who read the topic headings were at their desks Thats why someone has just got to go off at a tangent and I'm off after them .....heading or not O.K Sorry bout that !!!!!...Do I hear my mother roaring.."Difficult children"

[Micheál]

Ha ha Rocker

I didnt have to mitch to find distraction. Mickey Briens flowed right through my school. You might say it was always a bit of a stream of consciousness throughout the school day.

Micheál (not Ó Broinn)

Oh, and whats a tangent?

[Strum]

Hang on Michael, Ballinclae Stream doesn't go anywhere NEAR Monkstown or Glenageary. It ends up in Scotsmans Bay as Jordo pointed out way back. This one comes down through Honeypark doesn't it?

[Snowhite]

Where is Ballinclae Stream ????????

[Micheál]

Mickey Briens stream and Ballinclea stream are one and the same!

Ballinclea Heights (source)
Ballinclea Road
Avondale Road (Crossing )
Flower Grove
Beechwood
Pearse Park (alongside Joey's grounds)
Pearse Gardens
Sallynoggin Road (Crossing, alongside Power City)
Golf Course (is it still open there?)
Rere Ardmore Park
Carriglea
Olliver Plunkett Rd (nr junct St Patricks Terrace)
Rere Fitzgerald Park
Mountwood
Rere Glandore Park
Castle Park (Bungalows part, used to be "the swamp" in my youth)
Window Gambles Hill (Crossing at CBC Monkstown where old pavillion once stood,)
CBC playing pitches
Packenham Road (where it's joined another stream - "Monkstown"
Top Hat
Rere West Pier

M.

[skins]

Thanks Rocker. Glenageary Woods is a housing Estate beside the Golf course. When I was growing up it was private property with a ...Woods... and a Grand old Mansion which is still there. "Glenageary House" If I'm walking back from D/L to Sallynoggin I usually go through there from Royal Terrace. Nice walk. Saves trudging up Glenageary hill.

Back in the 60s a Nigerian family named Hecksher lived in that house. The father was, I think, a diplomat in the Nigerian Embassy. The two sons were excellent athletes and rugby players, and the daughter did some modelling.

Sadly, I see the daughter's death anounced on RIP.ie today, Honeybelle was her name. There's a photo of her also, a lovely-looking girl.

[Rocker]

That is so sad. May she rest in peace. I am sure there a lots of people from around Gleageary who knew her well.

[Sinead]

Skins:

Isn't it amazing how coincidence works. You give info about a house and within 24 hours you
find that one of the residents has died. She was a beautiful looking woman, may she Rest
in Peace.

Sinéad

[skins]

Bit more than 24 hours, Sinead, but even so.........

[Micheál]

Hi All

A continuation of previous dialogue (on Ballinaclea Stream) . . . . . .

Here's where Monkstown Stream enters the sea. I dropped down there today and can report a healthy flow, no ducks (& just one quack). There's even a (noisy) slotted manhole in the car park.

No sign of anything else in the vicinity of DART tracks, Salthill boundaries, Old Dunleary Road or, to my disappointment, on that Link road up to the Crescent.

And nothing notable along Grovenor Road either. Might the stream go through private back gardens after all? In which case, its conceivable that residents were left to divert/culvert it themselves over the years. (The Council would not normally "take-on" streams in private properties; they don't maintain it where it flows through private properties down the Monkstown Road)

Maybe we have the roots of a major tourist attraction here - the disappearing stream.

Outlet


Looking back to Salthill site


Noisy Slotted Manhole