The local community have run information visits and tours and gathered oral histories and photographs to assist and advise Hassett Ducatez to prepare a Conservation Management Plan to understand and establish the significance of the Protected Structure. This would serve as a basis for assessing any repair, stabilisation or interventionist work that might be considered. It will provide a framework within which potential Section 5 or 57 applications might be made, should outdoor community micro-events be planned for the space.
This site was originally constructed circa 1770 as a debtors' prison, and closing in 1876 was used by the Dublin Militia, becoming tenements following the formation of the Irish State. The building was largely demolished during various Dublin Inner Tangent road widening preparations in 1975, and what remains is a large walled enclosure. It has lain vacant and unused for two decades. This mysterious overgrown ballcourt has many layered histories- it has the sole example of a granite-faced gentleman debtors Racquetball Court, it housed a two storey free-standing Roman Catholic Chapel, laundry, latrine and exercise facilities, informal pigeon lofts and stables, twentieth century handball alleys and organised youth/scout clubs. It is surrounded on four sides by walls which are classified as Protected Structure and extends south to Thomas Street. The site only has one entrance off Robert Emmet Walk and its impressive walls are well visible from the new Bridgefoot Street Park.
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