Ardmore & Belfield House
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Ardmore House & Belfield House
Sketches of Ardmore and Belfield House by Clodagh Reid
Notes and sketches by Clodagh Reid
The Houses' History
A historical photograph of Ardmore House from 'University College Dublin and its Building Plans' compared to a current photo of the house, taken by Eva Marmelstein.
The Taney Parish Map of 1865 compared to a current satellite photo of the Belfield Estate.
Technical architectural drawings of Ardmore House and Belfield House
Creating a Walk
Due to the nature of the site where Ardmore and Belfield House are located, we noted that there were two possible routes one could take between these two house. The first walk is from Belfield House to Ardmore House, focusing on the flora and fauna of the surrounding area. The second walk is from Ardmore House to Belfield House, highlighting the built environment of UCD campus, following the man-made roads and paths from one house to the other.
Walk 1: Belfield --> Ardmore
Walk 2: Ardmore --> Belfield
The walk starts at the Ardmore house which is at the center of campus next to the UCD Student Desk and O'Reilly Hall.
Then your journey goes down the road to the N11 and across the construction site where the UCD Centre for Future Learning is being built.
Finally, you reach the Belfield house which is now used as the UCD Clinton Centre for American Studies. It is also next to the Rose Garden and UCD Bikes.
A video created by Manidhar Yeluri demonstrating 'Walk 2 - Ardmore House --> Belfield House'.
Tree Heritage
In the Evaluating Heritage workshop, we're tasked with creating a walk that showcases diverse forms of heritage related to a specific house or structure. Working in groups of 4, we visited the Ardmore and Belfield house to test these walks, documenting various forms of heritage through drawing, photography, film, and writing.
Extracts from Clodagh Reid's sketchbook from our tree heritage workshop.
Tree Species Found on our Walk
This Map uses red and blue dots to represent trees identified by satellite imagery. The red dots symbolize trees that have not yet been inputted into the system, and the blue dots symbolize trees that have already been mapped by the local community.
- Go to the field where you want to map trees.
- Open the CartoSpot web app at interval.cartospot.com on your mobile device
- Ensure your device has an internet connection and grant the web browser permission
- On the landing page, click “Let’s create greener cities”.
- Select the area you want to work on from the next screen. You will see a map with red dots (trees needing verification) and blue dots (verified trees).
- Click on a red dot to survey a tree and enter the required information.
- If you find a tree not on the map, click “Add New Tree” at the bottom left corner of the map.
Photos of the local flora we discovered in the areas surrounding Ardmore and Belfield House.
References
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