page_title: Dublin gunpowder disaster
section_title: Aftermath: Dublin rebuilt
hierarchical_section_title: Dublin gunpowder disaster / Aftermath: Dublin rebuilt
caption_attribution_description: View this map on the BL Georeferencer service. Image taken from: Dublin as published by John Speed in 1610 Reprint of 1896 Title: "Remains of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin. Their explorations and researches, A.D. 1886" Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10390.h.14.", "British Library HMNTS 4735.g.4." Page: 10 Place of Publishing: Dublin Date of Publishing: 1887 Publisher: Forster &amp; Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 002408931 "From JOHN SPEED'S ORIGINAL MAP, SURVEYED IN 1610." Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page image 10) Download the PDF for this book Image found on book scan 10 (NB not a pagenumber)Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here.
context_page_description: The Dublin gunpowder disaster was a large explosion that took place on the quays of Dublin on 11 March 1597. The explosion demolished as many as forty houses, and left dozens of others badly damaged. The disaster claimed the lives of 126 people and inflicted countless injuries.
  The accidental explosion is the worst disaster of the kind to have occurred in Ireland. In the long run, however, the disaster provided the impetus for the expansion of Dublin in the early 17th Century and beyond, with the rebuilding efforts laying the foundation of the new city centre.
context_section_description: The disaster claimed 126 lives, both men and women, and mostly locals. At the time, the population of Dublin was not quite 10,000, so the impact of the death toll was significant, representing over 1% of the population of the city.
  Although the immediate impact of the disaster was horrific, the rebuilding that took place in the early 17th century paved the way for the dramatic expansion of Dublin in the 1600s. In contrast to the timber that was widely employed in Ireland in the Medieval and Tudor era, much of the new building was in brick. The rebuilding effort also spilled into newly reclaimed land in the east of the city. This facilitated the dramatic growth of the population of the city, from less than 10,000 in 1600 to around 20,000 by the 1630s.
  The rebuilding effort was in some respects comparable to that which took place in London after the Great Fire of 1666, transforming medieval Dublin into a more modern city.
caption: John Speed's 1610 map of Dublin (from surveys taken c.10 years after the disaster). The explosion occurred at Wood Quay, marked with the number 8 on Speed's map
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