The Commons

NEW COMMONS, HARBERTON BRIDGE & CAMAC BRIDGE

NOW HERBERTON ROAD, DOLPHIN ROAD, HERBERTON BRIDGE AND DOLPHIN’S BARN BRIDGE

In 1791 the surrounding farmlands were known as the Commons near an Old Quarry.  By 1876 the quarry was replaced by built up areas known as Springfield and Bloomfield with a garden with a well, Gibraltar Villa with gardens and Gibraltar Cottage. By 1888 Springfield Terrace was constructed.

Bloomfield House was the home of Eamon Ceannt, an Irish Revolutionist, a member of Sinn Féin who participated in the 1916 Rising and was later executed in Kilmainham Jail by the British Crown Forces.

Harberton Bridge was named after Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton, an Anglo-Irish politician and Director of the Grand Canal Company.  The canal’s watercourse extended eastwards towards Dublin South Docks from 1791 under the wooden bridge that connected the South Circular Road to Goldenbridge and Crumlin. The bridge was replaced by the current concrete bridge in 1938 and at some point Harberton became Herberton.