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Spencer Dock, destined, or maybe not if some at the inquiry have their way, to be transformed from a collection of rail sidings…

Spencer Dock, destined, or maybe not if some at the inquiry have their way, to be transformed from a collection of rail sidings and wasteland into the high-rise, high-tech, high-living, wonder of Dublin city, is named after none other than the Fifth Earl Spencer, ancestor of Princess Diana. As viceroy, he opened this section of the docks where the Royal Canal enters the Liffey in the mid 1870s. J.W. de Courcy's The Liffey in Dublin says a stone on the bridge in Lower Sheriff Street commemorates the occasion, but Quidnunc hasn't been down to investigate if it's still there.