Talk:Montpelier Hill

A dwarfish figure??

"In 1971, the skeleton of a dwarfish figure was found buried ..." - What does this mean? If "the skeleton of a short person", then why not say so? -- 201.19.11.75 13:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

photograph

The photograph is a silhouette, with the light coming from the far side, so that it's hard to see details; only the shape is clearly visible without looking closely. Can a photograph taken under better illumination conditions be added? 128.101.250.1 18:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

What should the article be called? Proposal to rename.

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move to Montpelier Hill. Ucucha 13:38, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hellfire Club, Dublin → Montpelier Hill, Dublin — Two subjects are addressed by this article: Montpelier Hill and the Hellfire Club. Conventionally, notable geographic features have their own articles in Wikipedia but, here, Montpelier Hill is included within the article about the building, which puts the cart before the horse. See Talk:Hellfire Club, Dublin for further comments. --O'Dea (talk) 08:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

If the two items are to be discussed in one article instead of separately, it seems natural that the lesser item should be subsumed* within an article about the greater subject: the building should be discussed within an article about the hill. As things stand, the cart is before the horse.

Therefore, I propose that the article be renamed Montpelier Hill, Dublin and a redirect page be established so attempts to retrieve Hellfire Club, Dublin are forwarded to the new page.

* [Subsume: 1. to include something or someone as part of a larger group — Cambridge Dictionary. 2. to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive; encompass as a subordinate or component element — Merriam Webster.] --O'Dea (talk) 08:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

• The move proposal sounds fine per the arguments of the nominator assuming the hill itself is notable (see below) but the article would need rearranging. Consider doing this before a move. Even then, the information on the club would be disproportionately large which could be a concern of some (See WT:Writing better articles/Balance parts of a page). Also, if the move is agreed to, the target should simply be Montpelier Hill without the ", Dublin". There is no ambiguity in the name. — AjaxSmack 16:02, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree that the article would need to be rearranged before the move. --O'Dea (talk) 21:44, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

• Support For reasons already given by proposer. Skinsmoke (talk) 07:43, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
• Strongly Oppose for the following reasons:

1. While Montpelier is the official name of the hill as per the Ordnance Survey, the area is popularly known as the Hell Fire Club. The vast majority of persons looking for the information in the article will search under “Hell Fire Club” not “Montpelier Hill”. Note that the owners of the site, Coillte, refer to it as the Hell Fire Club on their website as do the Dublin Mountains Partnership who are responsible for promoting tourism and recreation in the area.
2. The article is about the Hell Fire Club building not the hill upon which it stands. The hill itself is not notable. If there is an issue with the article it is that the use of the Mountain Infobox and the category “Mountains and Hills of County Dublin” is inappropriate.

Thus, I would propose the following:

1. Retain the title of “Hell Fire Club, Dublin” as it currently stands.
2. Delete the Mountain Infobox and replace with suitable infobox, if one exists – any suggestions?
3. Delete from category: Mountains and Hills of County Dublin.
4. Retain existing category: Buildings and structures in Ireland. Any suggestions for other appropriate categories?

- Joe King (talk) 18:22, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

• I have altered my comments above based on yours. — AjaxSmack 01:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Supporting comments and evidence:    The Coillte website does not call the mountain Hellfire: that is the name it gives to its forest property on Montpelier Hill. The Coillte website states clearly, "The [Hellfire] site is located on Montpelier Hill" (my italics).

Furthermore, the Dublin Mountains Partnership does not call the mountain Hellfire, either. On the contrary, the Partnership calls the recreation site Hellfire (not the mountain), and says quite properly that "the [recreation] site is located on Montpelier Hill" (my italics, again).

Thus, neither organisation refers to the mountain itself as Hellfire Mountain. They, and the citizens of Dublin, identify objects or sites on the mountain as Hellfire (the forest, trails, and building). The forest and building occupy only the immediate summit area, while the the main bulk of the mountain extent stretches all the way down Stocking Lane to its foothills in Ballyboden on one side, and into the Glenasmole Valley on the other.

In addition, the references supplied by the original author of the article confirm the identity of the mountain—repeatedly—as Montpelier Hill

The deletion of the mountain infobox would be inappropriate for a mountain, and simply destructive. It would also be inappropriate to remove the article from the category Mountains and Hills of County Dublin since it is, after all, one of the best-known mountains in Dublin. The new redirect page will automatically forward anyone searching for information about the Hellfire Club on top of Montpelier Hill.

The people of Dublin speak informally of visiting "the Pine Forest" (which is on Tibradden Mountain) but they do not confuse the forest with the name of the mountain itself—they know the Pine Forest is on Tibradden Mountain when speaking of going "to the Pine Forest". Nor do they believe the mountain surmounted by the Hellfire Club is called by that name. They understand that the Hellfire Club is a destination or feature, and not the name of that mountain.

Here is a summary of official authorities and sources cited at the end of the article, and above, who call it Montpelier Hll:

• The Ordnance Survey (see map), official State mapmaker
• The Neighbourhood of Dublin, by Weston St. John Joyce
• A History of the County Dublin, by Francis Elrington Ball
• Mont Pelier, The History and Antiquities of Tallaght in the County of Dublin, by William Domville Handcock
• Coillte, the State forestry body owned by the Irish Government
• Dublin Mountains Partnership, which includes Coillte; South Dublin County Council; Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and the Dublin Mountains Initiative.

It is documented beyond dispute in mutually-supporting, online-accessible, authoritative and authorised sources that the official name is Montpelier Hill, historically and today.

--O'Dea (talk) 15:49, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Factual Information

There is very little factual information here on the Hell-Fire Club themselves, even if current scholarship argues that that was a generic name for types of clubs, it might be an idea to either include more information here, on the British Hell-Fire Club page or create a new page for the Irish clubs. Also why are no primary sources listed for the Club? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.180.127 (talk) 17:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Afizi House?

The article introduction refers to "the Afizi House" without any indication of what it is. Any thoughts about adding some clarification? jxm (talk) 22:06, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

That would be vandalism. It should be the Steward's House. Reverted now. - Joe King (talk) 08:34, 19 November 2016 (UTC)