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LIFE OF CHARLES HALIDAT. CXIX
line unbuilt of 606 feet in length. In the year 1715 the
City began to build this wall, and hence probably the name
of City-quay.
Such being the history of the walling of the southern
Walling of the
bank of the Liffey, we now turn to
North side>
the northern side. The
laying down of kishes on that side began, as already stated,
in 1710. As this work was to form a foundation for a
wall, which is shown in Brookin's map
of 1728 as then
standing, it would be interesting to fix the date when it
was built. But it cannot be fixed very accurately.
On 22nd July, 1715, the Ballast Board reported that they
were laying down kishes to secure the north side of the
channel. 1 In October of that year they report they had
made good the bank as far as opposite to Mabbot's Mill, and
that the remainder would be completed in the following
were still at
summer. 2 But in 1716, 1717, and 1718, they
work laying kishes. 3 It does not appear when this kishing
was actually completed. It was probably in 1718 or 1720.
At all events it was so far advanced in 1717 that the
Corporation anticipated its early completion, and the conse-
quent building of the North Wall. They also anticipated
the gaining of the land behind the wall For in 1717 they
proceeded to a lottery among themselves of the land to be
thus gained. And there is a reprint of a map, by no means
scarce, showing the various lots as set out in Easter
Assembly, 1717, and perfected (by lottery) in the year 1718.
Hence the origin of the name of the " North Lots." By
this scheme each allottee had a small frontage, but a wide
allotment at the rere.
How valuable the whole has become may be judged from
this, that three great railway companies have lately built
their terminuses there, and the steam shipping have their
berths there.
The wall was not completed in 1717, for in 1718 the
1
Appendix, p. 235. Ibid.
Ibid. *lbid, p. 248, n 2.