Sepia and red ink wash drawing of a one-horse block-wheel cart, with a transverse bench. The driver, wearing a hat, is standing on the cart, holding the reins in his left hand and a whip in the right.
From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century Ringsend was a major embarkation and disembarkation point for Dublin. Some fifteen years before Dineley's visit the Ringsend coach, or car, was described in The English Rogue, a novel by Richard Head and Francis Kirkman: ‘As for his Ringsend-Coach, as he call’d it, it was Wheel-barrow fashion, only it had two Wheels not much bigger than a large Cheshire cheese: the Horse that drew this Princely-pygmy-Chariot, I at first mistook for an over-grown Masty [mastiff].’ (London: Henry Marsh, 1665, p. 213)

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