Harold's Cross is an affluent urban village and inner suburb on the south side of Dublin, Ireland in the postal district D6W. The River Poddle runs through it, though largely in an underground culvert, and it holds a major cemetery, Mount Jerome, and Our Lady's Hospice.
Robert Emmet Bridge as seen from the banks of the Grand Canal, Harold's Cross
Plaque to Robert Emmet on Harold's Cross Road.
The River Poddle is a river in Dublin, Ireland, a pool of which gave the city its English language name. Boosted by a channel made by the Abbey of St. Thomas à Becket, taking water from the far larger River Dodder, the Poddle was the main source of drinking water for the city for more than 500 years, from the 1240s. The Poddle, which flows wholly within the traditional County Dublin, is one of around a hundred members of the River Liffey system, and one of over 135 watercourses in the county; it has just one significant natural tributary, the Commons Water from Crumlin.
River Poddle at Poddle Park in Kimmage
Image: Poddle River from Tymon source, with City Watercourse intake, to Mount Argus and beyond Tongue (inner City Watercourse culverted)
Early Poddle River (Tymon River in this part), in Tymon Park (western part)
Tymon Lake on the Poddle in Tymon Park (eastern part)
