Workers unearth old Dublin city basin that was a social hotspot in the 1830s

Dublin City Council workers have unearthed part of an old city basin that once supplied the south of the city with drinking water, and was considered the go-to place for outdoor socialising in the 1830s.

DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL workers have unearthed part of an old city basin that once supplied the south of the city with drinking water, and was considered the go-to place for outdoor socialising in the 1830s.

Back in the day, the canal linked the harbour and the basin, and the walls of the semi-circular harbour are still visible beside the Guinness storehouse.Advertisement A street running perpendicular to the Luas line at that point is still called Basin View to this day, with the Basin Street Flats complex nearby.Though the city basin was originally built to increase Dublin’s water supply in 1721 , it eventually became a place for wealthy citizens to take fresh air, according to an account by Sir John Thomas Gilbert in A History of the City of Dublin Volume 2.

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