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Award Winner
There are many notable buildings in the area such as the Altovetro apartment building which won a silver medal for housing from the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland 2007 and 2008. 

Music Makers
The Factory, located here, houses Irish Film and Television Network studios and rehearsal and recording studios where a number of Irish band U2’s albums were recorded.

Forty foot pole
At one time there was a hospice for lepers located on ‘Misery hill.’ Such was the belief that lepers were unclean, these poor souls would be walked to the hospice with a man tolling a bell and another carrying a 40 foot pole to keep other people at a safe distance.

The expression ‘I wouldn’t touch him with a 40 foot pole’ originates from this practice.