Portobello used to be confined to a well-delineated area between the South Circular Rd and Grand Canal. But in recent years, apparently, it has leapt its traditional boundaries and is now invading adjacent suburbs, writes Frank McNally
“For the avoidance of doubt,” writes Clive, ”Portobello has always been an area stretching westwards from South Richmond Street as far as Upper Clanbrassil Street and bordered on the north by the South Circular Road and on the south by the Grand Canal.”
If this is true, Rathmines has crossed not only the canal but the SCR, into New Portobello. But whether that is just an isolated seedling of or the start of a counter-invasion, is too early to say. Conservationists will be encouraged by the continued survival of the southernmost portion of Finglas Road, where it almost reaches the Royal Canal. This despite an attempt some decades ago to rename that part of it, when an upmarket development called “Dalcassian Downs” was being built there.
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