These are the answers and results of the September/October 2013 Dublin Picture Quiz Competition…   The answers are just below, underneath each picture.  Obviously the competition was over and the winners were announced a long time ago.  So don’t send in your answers.  But we have left the quiz up online,  in case people find it fun.   This is quite a tough quiz but we hope you enjoy.  If you love learning about history, buildings and architectural stories and details, we recommend joining the Dublin Decoded mailing list here. We run history and architecture walks, from 1-3 of them every month and we think they are the best in Dublin.   In the meanwhile,  here’s the answers to the quiz!

for Picture 1:  we asked you What, and where roughly,  is this place below?

Many of you correctly identified it as the old Boland’s Mill, a huge mill building facing directly onto Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock, and also lining the side of Pearse Street, just over on the Ringsend side of the Pearse St bridge.    TheBoland’s Mill is one of the largest buildings in Dublin, and this funny, slightly jerry-built shack sits on top of the colossus.

for Picture 2:  we asked you What, and where roughly,  is this place below?

A:  Many readers found this one trickier.  But a Mr WTC Mays, reputed to be a well-known south-side businessman and horticulture magnate, nailed it perfectly.  It is of course the pump house for the ornamental lake in Blackrock Park,  cunningly decked out as a cute roman temple.

for Picture 3:  we asked you What, and where,  was this place below?

This regal looking lion sits astride the main door of Newman’s House, on St Stephens Green West, and possibly the finest building on that beautiful square.  Newman House, is in fact two aristocratic townhouses joined together, each festooned with top class Georgian-era plasterwork.   The first house was by the renowned German born architect Richard Cassel completed c 1738, with a second building added alongside in 1765.   About a hundred years later the two together became the home of the new Catholic University.   The first rector of the new institution was the great writer and theologian John Henry Newman, one of the founders of the influential Oxford Movement.  Apart from his offices here, the poet Gerald Manley Hopkins also had a bedroom here.

for Picture 4:  we asked you What, and where, was this place below?

Most people got this one.  These are the office buildings,  known as Plaza One on Burlington Plaza, or Burlington Road, (either answer was fine)    I thought they were the property of the well known developers Treasury Holdings, one of many high profile firms who borrowed vast amounts of money from our rather spendthrift Irish banks, then it spent big and built high,  during our recent, notorious boomtime.    But in fact, the joint developers of this “plaza” scheme  were Coolbrook Ltd and Allied Irish Property Fund.      (Many thanks to the eagle-eyed Jaybee for the correction on that one)    Admittedly, these offices, on a high profile, fairly prestigious site,  appear better designed than much of the output of those crazy spendthrift times.   I pass them almost every day and always enjoy walking by.

for Picture 5:  we asked you What, and where was this place below?

Picture 11-   What and where, is this?  (below)  I put this one sideways, just, just because.

It’s Corrigan’s Pub, in Ranelagh, Dublin 6,  near or just behind the well known Month Pleasant Cresecent.

Picture 12-   What and where, was this?  (below)

A12:  It’s the wonderful 3-faced,  (especially duplicitous) head from the National Museum on Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Picture 13-   What and where, was this image below?

This was tough, and a lot of people guessed, not unreasonably “in Dalkey?”    In fact this fantastic Art-deco house is to be found facing the sea in beautiful Sutton,  looking out southwards across Dublin Bay.

Picture 14-   Our penultimate question..  Tell us:  What and where, was this?  (below)

A14:  This was the Asgard, the ship that Erskine Childers used to bring German guns into Ireland, on the eve of the famed 1916 Easter Rising.

And finally….   (drum roll please…)   This was Picture, question- 15-   What and where, was this?  (below)

Okay,  I cheated, because this answer was the same as the first answer.  It’s Boland’s mill again, on the Grand Canal Dock.  The reason for the duplication is because I’m semi-obsessed with this building.   I hope to blog about it soon.

that’s the lot.  Competition email line is now closed.  But please share the quiz if you can,  Most social media buttons are just below at foot of page.

The winners will be announced in the next 2-3 days.