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One of those seemingly nameless and perhaps purposeless monuments that we pass daily - and due to traffic or location never get to identify! I have passed this many times over 50 years and could not tell you for whom or what it was erected. Can you?

And indeed today's contributors could and did offer some insights! While describing it as "nameless" was perhaps somewhat fair (the Archiseek entry linked by [/photos/8468254@N02/ derangedlemur] describing it simply as "Fountain, James St"), the "purposeless" label was perhaps less so. Unlike many similar structures we see in this stream, it seems that this piece of street furniture had more point (sorry) than most. It turns out that, far from being a grand obelisk with the sole purpose of marking some well-to-do family's estate or ego, this fountain was built in 1790 to offer water (and time of day via its sun dials) to the people of this part of Dublin....

Photographer: Elinor or Reginald Wiltshire

Collection: Wiltshire Photographic Collection

Date: 1966

NLI Ref: WIL 20[5]

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Source Monument, James's Street, Dublin
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Camera location53° 20′ 36.06″ N, 6° 17′ 25.25″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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