East Pier Heritage Trail

East Pier Heritage Trail The guide can be downloaded from the TwinTrack website @ http://twintrackmedia.ie/

East Pier Audio Guide is a 30min, 14 stop audio guide that brings the listener on a journey along one of Dun Laoghaire's most cherished heritage areas, the East Pier. The history, architecture, wildlife and heritage of the East Pier, in Dún Laoghaire, its harbour, and its town. From the fascinating story of how the granite was quarried in Dalkey and brought by special railway to the then fishing v

illage of Dunleary to build not one but two piers; marine tragedies, wildlife, and Russian cannons - it's all here!

15/10/2018

Great weather for walking the East Pier folks!! Despite the ongoing repairs to the upper pier, the experience is terrific... and if you want to find out more about where to find the East Pier Heritage Trail, let us know at info!.ie

National Heritage week will run from August 19th to 27th. Each year, this event promote our natural, built and cultural ...
16/08/2017

National Heritage week will run from August 19th to 27th. Each year, this event promote our natural, built and cultural Irish heritage. To celebrate it, we are excited to bring you on a heritage audioguide tour of the East Pier.

This was our first ever audio trail, produced before smartphones and still sounds fresh!

This 14-stop audio-guided trail, out and back, on Dún Laoghaire’s main pier takes us on a journey that includes tragedy, bravery, wildlife, as well as poetry, music, and engineering.
The voices are producer Aileen O’Meara and science writer Mary Mulvihill.

Feel free to email us if you have any question at [email protected] and give us a like !

Hello and welcome, and here’s what’s ahead.

2nd stop : The Cannon
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2nd stop : The Cannon

From quarrying granite in Dalkey to the Russian connection.

3rd stop : The Bandstand
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3rd stop : The Bandstand

Victorian ladies take the sun, sheltering under the Turner White.

4th stop : Wildlife
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4th stop : Wildlife

Spot the gulls, guillemots, eels and conger.

5th stop : The Boyd Memorial
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5th stop : The Boyd Memorial

The tragedy of Captain James McNeil Boyd and his crew aboard the HMS Ajax

6th stop : The Anemometer
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6th stop : The Anemometer

The Greek word for wind and the Irish scientist who measured wind speed.

7th stop : The Seals
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7th stop : The Seals

Time for rest and some seal-searching.

8th stop : The Lighthouse
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8th stop : The Lighthouse

226,000 candles light up the Mugglin rocks.

9th stop : The Samuel Beckett plaque
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9th stop : The Samuel Beckett plaque

A great dead Irish writer, and some living ones as well.

10th stop : The old Carlisle Pier
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10th stop : The old Carlisle Pier

Steam packets, mailboats, railways, and the HSS.

11th stop : Marconi
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11th stop : Marconi

Marconi, the Dún Laoghaire Regatta, and the very first radio report.

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Aileen O'Meara Media, 19/20 York Road, Dún Laoghaire
Dublin
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