Blackpitts
Blackpitts
Na Cuithí Dubha | |
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 Interactive map of Blackpitts | |
  Blackpitts Location within Central Dublin | |
| Coordinates: 53°20′10″N 6°16′31″W / 53.336°N 6.27515°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Dublin |
| City | Dublin |
| Local authority | Dublin City Council |
| LEA | South West Inner City |
| Area | The Liberties |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Postal code | |
Blackpitts, sometimes Black Pitts or The Blackpitts (Irish: Na Cuithí Dubha),[1] is an area of The Liberties in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. It is on the Southside of the city, and is historically associated with the tanning, brewing and distilling industries, and with the River Poddle and its mostly artificial tributaries.
History
[edit source]The origin of the name "Blackpitts" is debated,[2] and may have derived from the area's tanning history,[3][4] or mass graves from The Black Death in the area.[5] The area has a long association with the River Poddle and its artificial tributaries, now almost entirely culverted but which long ran in the open and supplied local industry.[6] Fumbally Lane, which connects the Blackpitts area to New Street, was laid out in the early 18th century by Jacob Poole, a brewer with property interests in the area.[7]
Irish street rhymer Michael "Zozimus" J. Moran was born in Faddle Alley between Clanbrassil Street and Blackpitts in 1974.[8]
Facilities
[edit source]The area has a distillery called the Blackpitts Distillery that dates back to at least 1850, as The Catholic Telegraph records a fire on 19 October 1850 where one person died.[9] The headquarters for the Irish nonprofit collective Fumbally Exchange are in Argus House,[10] where Raidió Rí-Rá broadcasts from.[11]
The area contains housing, tourist accommodation and warehousing. There is also a Sunni Islam mosque called Blackpitts Mosque owned by businessman Mian Ghulam Bari,[12] The hackerspace TOG's common room is also in Blackpitts.[13] The Mill Street House is on 10 Mill Street, Blackpitts. It was built in the 1720s by the Brazabon family, who were Earls of Meath, and is one of the few "Dutch Billy" style houses that survive today.[14][15]
Gallery
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Blackpitts in the late 1800s
The Mill Street House on 10 Mill Street in Blackpitts
Ward's Hill on Mill Street in Blackpitts
The Tenters Pub in Blackpitts
Newmarket Square, Blackpitts
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Further reading
[edit source]- Curtis, Maurice (2013). "III. The Middle Ages: Barbers, Blackpitts and the Black Death". The Liberties: A History. History Press Ireland. ISBN 9781845887711.
References
[edit source]- ↑ "Na Cuithí Dubha / Blackpitts". Sraidainm.ie. Streetnames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 29 July 2026.
- ↑ Morash, Christopher (2023). Dublin: A Writer's City. p. 112, 114. ISBN 9781108923644.
Blackpitts Lane [is] variously said to refer to plague pits or to run-off from the nearby tanneries [..] popular belief that the name 'Blackpitts' came from the burial of plague victims here in the fourteenth century (although other accounts attribute the name to nearby tanneries)
- ↑ Giacometti, Antoine (2019). "Blackpitts: Dublin's Medieval Tanning Quarter". Medieval Dublin. 17.
- ↑ Neylon, Laoise (10 May 2017). "In Blackpitts, an 18th-Century House Is Restored from Ruins". The Dublin InQuirer. Dublin InQuirer. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
- ↑ McGuinness, Katy (25 September 2026). "Small and perfectly formed in D8 for €315k". Irish Independent. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ Doyle, Joseph W. (2024). The Rivers and Streams of Dublin (3rd ed.). Dublin, Ireland: Rath Eanna Research. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-9999497-6-1.
- ↑ Dublin City Archaeological Archive (PDF), Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd., 2006, retrieved 29 July 2026 – via Dublin City Council
- ↑ McCall, P. J. (1945). "Zozimus". Dublin Historical Record. 7 (4). Old Dublin Society: 134–149. ISSN 0012-6861. JSTOR 30082517. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
Michael Moran, his biographer tells us, was born in Faddle Alley off Blackpitts in the Liberties of Dublin, in the year 1794. "Where is Faddle Alley?" [..] Between Clanbrassil Street and Blackpitts is a passage called Ducker's or Dowker's Lane, and off this was the birthplace of Zozimus
- ↑ "Alarming Fire at Blackpitts Distilley" (PDF). The Catholic Telegraph. 19 October 1850. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via JSTOR.
Alarming Fire at Blackpitts Distillery. On Tuesday evening about eight o'clock, or shortly after, the extensive premises, comprising the distillery and stores of our fellow-citizen John Busby, Esq., jun., at Blackpitts, became the scene of an alarming fire. The access of the flames to the great spirit receiver was prevented by the intrepid act of Mr. Stein, a gentleman in the employment of Mr. Busby. At great risk, he closed the door of the enormous receiver, which was open near where the flames burst out, and thus saved the concern from utter destruction. The flames broke out in the still-house, to which, by great exertions on all hands, they were confined. We regret to have to add, that two poor men have been removed to the Meath Hospital, one of whom died next morning.
- ↑ "FEX Dublin". Fumbally Exchange. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
Address: Argus House, Blackpitts, Dublin 8
- ↑ Ó Caollaí, Éanna (3 February 2026). "Raidió Rí-Rá: stáisiún uaillmhianach don aos óg" [Raidió Rí-Rá: an ambitious station for young people] (in Irish). The Irish Times. Retrieved 21 June 2026.
- ↑ Hussain Khan, Adil (18 August 2017). "Narratives of Muslim Migration to Ireland". The Muslim World. 107 (3). Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. doi:10.1111/muwo.12200. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via Wiley.
Many Muslims worked for Ghulam Bari at his Blackpitts warehouse in Dublin [..] The workers initially began praying together on the top floor of the warehouse [..] Over time, it was transformed into a permanent mosque facility for local Muslims, commonly known as the Blackpitts (or Bari) mosque
- ↑ "Gallery". TOG. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ Clerkin, Paul. "1720s – 10 Mill Street, Blackpitts, Dublin". Archiseek. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
- ↑ "Building of the Month - January 2018: 10 Mill Street, Dublin 8". buildingsofireland.ie. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. January 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2026.
