Rebuilding St Annes — Clontarf

Hi folks,An exciting update on my exploration of the St. Anne's Park, Guinness Mansion.Thanks to drawings shared by Leo Devitt I originally had created the model of the mansion. A good friend from Ulster University, Michael Callaghan saw the model one day and said, how about building a mansion using 3D Modelling and walking around it yourself. So the project began. Two students, Suzanne Robert and Mamady Baradji worked on a college project over the summer to do just that.  Their work is brilliant and remarkable given the timeframe etc.I can walk around the 4 floors of the mansion and...

Welcome back!  To start I'd like to thank everyone for the kind and positive comments on my original post.  In this blog I am looking to try to find what parts of the house might still exist.  Finding the Plunket Organ This time out let's start with the Plunket organ.  This is the organ that was the centre piece in the Drawing Room. It sits in a semicircular alcove.  For those who have been to the park this is the most noticeable feature you can see in the nicely fenced off excavation site. I found out through a friend of Leo Devitt connected to...

In autumn 2023 I had a week off and decided to start a new adventure.  Having spent many the evening looking at the progress of the dig in St. Anne's Park I was curious as to what lay beneath. How big was the house, where did it start and end and how did that match the walls that were exposed in the dig?  There was nothing else for it, but to attempt to reconstruct the house as a model.  I have a mini drone, so ultimately I was hoping to send it up and overlay the model on reality.  Armed...