About: The Back of the Pipes, Dublin

The Back of the Pipes was the name of a lane and pipe route in Dublin 8, Ireland, located between Dolphin's Barn and James's Walk (which replaced a branch of the Grand Canal). It ran along the remote end of the back gardens of the houses on Rubens Street from the Dolphin's Barn end across from the Leinster Cinema, down the back of Fatima Mansions, on past the back gardens of the houses between Mallin Ave and Lourdes Road, past the "stone sofa" and finally came out at James's Walk across from the old iron footbridge which crossed the Grand Canal (now filled in) to access the City Basin (now Basin Lane / Basin Street) by the main Grand Canal Harbour. It took its name from an important part of the Dublin water supply originally erected in the years following 1245.