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CXV1 SOME NOTICE OF THE
And the notice odds :
" It will then form one of the finest moles in the world. The
stone for filling it up is brought from the nearest parts of the
eastern coast, but the granite flags to face it are quarry in;/ at
It is but justice to mention that the indefatigable
Lough Shinney.
exertions of Lord Ranelagh to this great undertaking has been the
principal means of its present forwardness."
By a notice in the same journal of 2nd June, 1791,
probable that it was completed in 1792.
it is
This mention of Lord Ranelagh, one of the directors of
the Ballast Board named in the Act of 1789, whose abode at
Monkstown became afterwards that of Mr. Haliday, leads
one to remark on the strange coincidence, that two members
of the Ballast Board, so warmly interested in all that
regards the port of Dublin, should have successively occupied
the same villa. Some of this information will be found
in Captain Washington's second report to the Tidal Harbours
Commission in 1846 ;
but what appears here was taken as
well from Mr. HaJiday's copies of entries on the Assembly
Rolls of the Corporation of Dublin, as from the information
of my friend, neighbour, end brother barrister of the
Leinster Circuit, William Monk Gibbon, LL.D., of "The
Cottage "
Sandymount, who closely succeeded Mr. Haliday
as a member of the Ballast Board sharing at once in Mr.
Haliday's earnest interest in all that concerned the port and
harbour of Dublin, and with the same historical tastes.
account of the
History of the To him is also wholly due the following
Pigeon-house. TV. r
Pigeon-house.
It appears from the journal of the Ballast Office that the
Commissioners of that Board had a servant, John Pigeon,
for on the 8th of June, 1786, he and another were ordered
to attend the Board on that day sennight, when the stores
adjoining the Pigeon-house were ordered to be cleared out,
to accommodate the workmen in working at the Ballast
Office wall (as the Lighthouse wall is here called), which
was then, as has been shown, approaching its completion.