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Fairview (Irish: Fionnradharc) is an inner coastal suburb of Dublin in Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council and in the city's D03 postal district. Part of the area forms Fairview Park, a recreational amenity laid out on land reclaimed from the sea.
Howth Head ( HOHTH; Ceann Bhinn Éadair in Irish) is a peninsula northeast of the city of Dublin in Ireland, within the governance of Fingal County Council. Entry to the headland is at Sutton while the village of Howth and the harbour are on the north-eastern face. Most of Howth Head is occupied by the Hill of Howth, though there are other regions, such as the tombolo at Sutton, extensive beaches on the northern shores, and small ones in other parts. The Baily Lighthouse is on the southeastern part of Howth Head. Nearby are the districts of Baldoyle and Portmarnock, and adjacent is the nature reserve of North Bull Island.
The Battle of Clontarf (Irish: Cath Chluain Tarbh) took place on 23 April 1014 at Clontarf, near Dublin, on the east coast of Ireland. It pitted an army led by Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, against a Norse-Irish alliance comprising the forces of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, King of Dublin; Máel Mórda mac Murchada, King of Leinster; and a Viking army from abroad led by Sigurd of Orkney and Brodir of Mann. It lasted from sunrise to sunset, and ended in a rout of the Viking and Leinster armies.
The Oscar Traynor Centre (Irish: Ionad Oscar Mac Thréinfhir) is an association football venue in Coolock, Northside, Dublin, Ireland. The ground was previously home to Women's National League club Bohemians from 2020 to 2022.
St Anthony's Hall (Irish: Halla Naomh Antaine), previously known as St Anthony's Parish Church (Irish: Eaglais Pharóiste Naomh Antaine) and, before that, Contarf Town Hall (Irish: Halla an Bhaile Cluain Tarbh) is a former ecclesiastical building and, before that, municipal building in Clontarf Road, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. It is now used as a parish hall for St Anthony's Parish Church.
Street address: 61 Clontarf Road (from Wikidata)
Kinsealy (officially Kinsaley; Irish: Cionn Sáile) is an outer suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Ireland. Kinsealy is on the northside of the city, about 13 km from the city centre, on the Malahide Road, in the green belt between the suburbs of Balgriffin, Portmarnock and Malahide.
Edenmore (Irish: Éadan Mór) is a locality and townland within Raheny on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, with several housing developments and a mid-size municipal park. It lies within the Dublin 5 postal district.
LAU (local administrative unit): IE02050, 02050
Balgriffin (Irish: Baile Ghrífín, meaning "Griffin's town") is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies on the administrative boundary between Dublin City and Fingal in County Dublin.
Kilbarrack (Irish: Cill Bharróg, meaning 'church of Saint Berach' or 'church of young Barra') is a residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland, running inwards from the coast, about 8 km (5.0 mi) from the city's centre. It is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock. Modern-day Kilbarrack is within the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council, with part of its old lands now in Donaghmede, and part in Bayside under Fingal County Council jurisdiction.
Priorswood (Irish: Coill an Phrióra) is a townland and district in northern Coolock, on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It is in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council and forms part of the Dublin 17 postal district.
The Naniken River (Irish: An Nainicín) is a minor river on the north side of Dublin city, Ireland, one of more than forty watercourses monitored by Dublin City Council. It is culverted for its upper course, visible in St Anne's Park for its entire lower course, and causes flooding somewhere along its line most years. The river flows entirely within the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council.
Kilmore (Irish: An Choill Mhór, meaning 'Big Wood') is a mostly residential area of Dublin, Ireland. It is a Northside area, straddling parts of the suburbs of Coolock, and Beaumont and Artane, and bordering Santry. A smaller area within it is known as Kilmore West.
The R139 road is a regional road in Ireland, located in the northeast of Dublin. Until 2012, a portion of the current route was part of the now defunct N32 road.
The O'Brien Institute is a building complex off the Malahide Road, near Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Marino, Dublin, Ireland. Built in 1880–1883 as an orphan home and school, the purchase of the land, and building costs, were financed by a trust that was founded by the will of Bridget O'Brien in 1876. The last four boarders left in 1976, when the school, which was run by the Irish Christian Brothers, closed. The institute was bought by Dublin Corporation, and is currently primarily used by Dublin Fire Brigade as a training centre, while the educational trust continues within the Archdiocese of Dublin.
Old Connaught House is an 18th-century house located in Rathmichael, Dublin, Ireland.
Pobalscoil Neasáin, known as "PSN" or "Nessan's", is an English-medium, co-educational and inter-denominational secondary (community) school, situated at the coastal end of Baldoyle and also serving Bayside and Sutton, Dublin, in the northern suburbs of Dublin, Ireland.
Santry River (Irish: Abhainn Sheantraibh) is a small watercourse on the north side of Dublin city, one of the forty or so watercourses monitored by Dublin City Council. It runs, mostly unculverted, from Harristown and Dubber near Dublin Airport, through Santry and Coolock, reaching the sea at Raheny, in a lagoon area inshore of Bull Island.
St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview (Irish: Ospidéal Naomh Uinseann, Fionnradharc) is a small psychiatric hospital in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland.
website: http://www.stvincentshospital.ie/
St John's parish, Clontarf is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church, serving part of Clontarf on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.
The Stardust fire was a fatal fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland, in the early hours of 14 February (Saint Valentine's Day) 1981. More than 800 people were attending a disco there, of whom 48 died, and 214 were injured as a result of the fire; in later years suicides of survivors and family members were also linked to the event.
Coolock (Irish: An Chúlóg) is one of the baronies of Ireland. It was constituted as part of the old county of Dublin. Today, it covers much of the northern parts of the city of Dublin and the south-eastern part of the modern county of Fingal. At the heart of the barony is the civil parish of the same name - Coolock - which is one of twenty civil parishes in the barony.
Aideen's Grave is a collapsed megalithic dolmen (or cromlech) located in the grounds of Howth Castle in County Dublin, Ireland.
Bull Island (Irish: Oileán an Bhulla), more properly North Bull Island (An Bulla Thuaidh or Oileán an Tairbh Thuaidh), is an island located in Dublin Bay in Ireland, about 5 km long and 800 m wide, lying roughly parallel to the shore off Clontarf (including Dollymount), Raheny, Kilbarrack, and facing Sutton. The island, with a sandy beach known as Dollymount Strand running its entire length, is a relatively recent, and inadvertent, result of human intervention in the bay. The island lies within the jurisdiction of, and is mostly owned by, Dublin City Council, and is managed by the Council's Parks and Landscape Division.
Baldoyle railway station was a railway station in Dublin, Ireland, serving nearby Baldoyle. It was located, on the down side, between Howth Junction and Portmarnock. It was short-lived, opening in 1844, finally closing in 1852.
Marino House was a Georgian house and estate in Marino in the northern suburbs of Dublin, Ireland, constructed sometime around 1755 and later remodelled by Sir William Chambers for the 1st Earl of Charlemont. Chambers later also designed Charlemont House on nearby Rutland Square (now Parnell Square) for Lord Charlemont as well as a summer house within the grounds of Marino House, now known as the Casino at Marino.
Killester Donnycarney Football Club is an Irish association football (soccer) club based in Killester, Dublin. Their senior men's team currently plays in the Senior Sunday Division of the Leinster Senior League.
Marino Crescent (Irish: An Corrán, meaning 'The Sickle') is a Georgian crescent of 26 houses at the junction of Marino, Fairview and Clontarf in Dublin 3, Ireland. It is the only Georgian crescent in Dublin.
Corr Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chorraigh – Castle of the round hill) is an L-plan tower house likely constructed sometime in the fifteenth century in Sutton, Dublin. The castle lies within the boundaries of Howth Demesne in the old townland of Correston, close to the townlands of Quarry and Burrow. The castle was probably built on higher ground in order to guard the isthmus at Sutton which was the only route on land to access Howth Castle and the port of Howth. It has historically sometimes been called The Dane's castle.
Sutton Castle or Sutton House is a Victorian Tudor-style castellated mansion house with terraced gardens on the southern coast of Howth Head, overlooking Dublin Bay, in County Dublin, Ireland.
Belmayne (Irish: Béal Maighne) is a development of housing, and adjunct facilities, in Balgriffin, a northern outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland, commenced in 2006–2007.
The Bull Wall (Irish: Balla an Bhulla), or North Bull Wall (Irish: Balla an Bhulla Thuaidh), at the Port of Dublin, extending from the estuary of the River Tolka and the district of Clontarf out nearly 3 km into Dublin Bay, is one of the two defining sea walls of the port, and faces the earlier-constructed Great South Wall. It has one of a trio of port lighthouses at the end of its extension breakwater, and a statue of Realt na Mara ('Mary, Queen of the Sea') partway along, and was responsible for the formation of North Bull Island with its nearly 5 km of beach.
Carrickbrack Road (Irish: Bóthar Charraig Bhreac) is a road in Dublin, Ireland, a constituent part of the R105 Regional Road. It leads east-southeast from Sutton Creek around the southern part of Howth Head, up to the eastern part of the headland near Howth Summit, to Thormanby Road. It is the main thoroughfare through the southern part of the headland. Greenfield Road links it to Sutton Cross. Howth Golf Club is located on it, as are Bellingham’s farm, Howth Celtic Football Club, St. Fintan's Cemetery, St. Fintan's National School and various private residences.
Castle Avenue Cricket Ground, also known as Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, is a cricket facility in the suburb of Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. It is the primary of the two grounds of Clontarf Cricket Club, the secondary being at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, and the lands on which it lies are also home to two rugby union pitches belonging to Clontarf FC. The ground is one of only four One Day International grounds on the island of Ireland.
Clongriffin (Irish: Cluain Ghrífín) is a community in northern Donaghmede, on the northern fringe of Dublin, Ireland. The settlement was based on a master plan vision from major developer Gannon Homes, with significant investment in transport infrastructure and also community and recreational amenities. Development slowed during the downturn in the economy, although activity renewed in recent years, with planning permission secured for a hotel and a range of additional homes including a 16-storey apartment block with residential lounges and roof gardens..
The Parish of St. John the Baptist, the Church of Ireland Parish of Clontarf, Dublin is a religious community located on the north shore of Dublin Bay, bounded by the Parishes of North Strand to the west, Coolock to the north, and Raheny to the east (the latter two are in a Union).
Gaelcholáiste Reachrann is an Irish-speaking secondary school (Irish: gaelcholáiste), located in Donaghmede, Dublin in Ireland. The school is under the patronage of the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board. Reachrann shares a premises with Grange Community College. In the 2020/21 school year, Gaelcholáiste Reachrann (GCR) had an enrollment of 499 students. The school was ranked 1st in its area by the Irish Times in the 2019 Good Schools Guide. It is ranked 3rd best secondary school in Ireland as of 2025
website: http://www.gcreachrann.ie/
Harmonstown (Irish: Baile Hearman) is a small suburban locality of Dublin, Ireland, located on its Northside. It straddles the boundary between modern-day Artane and Raheny. It has a population of 5,566 inhabitants as of 2016
Mercy College Coolock is a Catholic girls' secondary school in Coolock, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Mercy. It shares grounds with Coolock House, formerly the home of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, and with Scoil Chaitríona, a girls' primary school.
website: http://www.mercycoolock.ie/
Na Gaeil Óga, CLG are a Dublin GAA, Irish-speaking Gaelic football, hurling and camogie club based in St. Catherines Park, Lucan and Phoenix Park, County Dublin founded in 2010. An underage structure was founded in 2014 catering for girls and boys in hurling, camogie and football.
Scoil Uí Chonaill is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Dublin, Ireland.
website: https://bathingwaters.eu/east/leinster/dublin%20fingal/IEEABWC090_0000_0400
Natura 2000 site ID: IE0004113
Street address: 14 Hollybrook Park, Clontarf, Dublin 3 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 16 Hollybrook Park, Clontarf, Dublin 3 (from Wikidata)
website: http://www.stfintansparish.ie/
Street address: 13 Annesley Bridge Road, Dublin 3 (from Wikidata)
Street address: 71 Clontarf Road (from Wikidata)