The old Pigeon House power station and hotel on the Poolbeg peninsula are to be redeveloped as a creative and cultural “precinct” under new plans from Dublin City Council. The power station, built in stages from the early 1900s, was in use by the ESB until it was decommissioned in the 1970s. The hotel is much older, dating from the early 1790s when it was built to accommodate the increasing cross-channel passenger traffic. Dublin Bay Studios wants to build an €80 million Hollywood-style studio complex in the Poolbeg SDZ on land owned by Dublin Port. The Pigeon House is not named after the bird, but a man called John Pidgeon, the caretaker in the 1760s of a storehouse used by the builders of the Great South Wall.

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2018 18:44 UTC