Ireland day 1265. Sunday 16 March 2025- City Centre
Today’s summary | Val working again so I took a late morning train to Dublin to join a DWC walk round the central city from St Stephens Green. Very enjoyable and lovely weather. Met up with Val back in Malahide afterwards for a walk round the demesne. Salad, wine and Mad Men in the evening. | ||||
Today’s weather | Bright sunny and dry. Light north easterly wind. Appx 10c | ||||
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Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route) |
Close-up location (The blue line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): Dublin City Centre exploration |
Commentary
After yesterday’s battering walk from Glenbride, I definitely felt in need of something a bit easier today. Maybe it’s just my age! Anyway, a short city walk in the sparking sunshine sounded like just what the doctor ordered.
So as soon as we were up and about, I got ready to go out on today’s Club walk, while Val headed off to put in another shift at the museum. The Club was meeting up at St Stephen’s Green at 12 noon and I was aiming to get the 1103 DART into town to meet the rest of the group. As it happened, the train was cancelled but I got the following diesel and a no 14 bus, and thanks to the wonders of mobile telephony the group waited a few minutes for me to arrive.
It was an interesting walk and Dublin was looking lovely in the late-winter sunshine. I learned quite a lot en route – who knew, for instance, that an elephant was buried in Iveagh Gardens? Well I for one didn’t. And we also took a look at the “Victims” sculpture in Merrion Square, which depicts a victim of war. It was originally supposed to be part of a much bigger war memorial destined for Washington DC, but it was never completed. It’s pretty grim, to be honest.
After sandwiches in Merrion Square, we walked east to visit St Stephen’s Church on Mount Street Upper. It’s sometimes known as the Pepper Canister, on account of its unusual spire. It was built around 1821. From there we made our way over to the Grand Canal at which point I left the rest of the group and walked back to Connolly for a diesel to Malahide.
Once I got back, I met up with Val as soon as she finished work, and we walked round the demesne together. Then another salad dinner followed (we’re still eating up from last week!) with more left over wine and some “Mad Men” on the TV.
A great day for recharging the batteries.
Today’s photos (click to enlarge)
Interactive map
(Elevations corrected at GPS Visualizer: Assign DEM elevation data to coordinates )
Max elevation: 10 m
Min elevation: 1 m
Total climbing: 26 m
Total descent: -31 m
Total time: 01:44:31