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The Southside ( ga, Taobh Ó Dheas) is the part of
Dublin city that lies south of the
River Liffey
The River Liffey ( Irish: ''An Life'', historically ''An Ruirthe(a)ch'') is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the Riv ...
. It is an informal but commonly used term. In comparison to the city's
Northside, it has historically been regarded as wealthier and more privileged, with several notable exceptions. (
Malahide
Malahide ( ; ) is an affluent coastal settlement in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland, situated north of Dublin city. It has a village centre surrounded by suburban housing estates, with a population of over 17,000.
Malahide Castle dates from th ...
, one of the wealthiest areas in Ireland, is on the Northside, for example.)
Areas of the Southside
The Southside includes Dublin city centre south of the Liffey, including
Grafton Street
Grafton Street () is one of the two principal shopping streets in Dublin city centre (the other being Henry Street). It runs from St Stephen's Green in the south (at the highest point of the street) to College Green in the north (the lowes ...
and other notable streets, and also inner city areas such as
The Liberties
The Liberties (Irish: ''Na Saoirsí'' or occasionally ''Na Libirtí'') is an area in central Dublin, Ireland, located in the southwest of the inner city. Formed from various areas of special manorial jurisdiction, separate from the main city g ...
/
The Coombe
The Coombe (; ga, An Com) is a historic street in the south inner city of Dublin, Ireland. It was originally a hollow or valley where a tributary of the River Poddle, the Coombe Stream or Commons Water, ran. The name is sometimes used for the b ...
and
Temple Bar.
Beyond the city centre, the Southside (in the geographical sense) includes the districts named here, most of the names being old, though many were until recent times rural
townlands
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:
Postcodes
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Traditionally,
Dublin postal districts
Dublin postal districts have been used by Ireland's postal service, known as ''An Post'', to sort mail in Dublin. The system is similar to that used in cities in Europe and North America until they adopted national postal code systems in the 19 ...
on Southside begin with even numbers, while those of the
Northside begin with odd numbers.
College Green for example, is in the city's D02 district—simply called "Dublin 2" in everyday speech—whereas the outer suburb of
Tallaght
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is in D24. One exception to this rule is the
Phoenix Park
The Phoenix Park ( ga, Páirc an Fhionnuisce) is a large urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its perimeter wall encloses of recreational space. It includes large areas of grassland and tre ...
, which forms part of the even-numbered district D08, but is actually on the Northside. Historian
Pat Liddy explains this discrepancy: "Long before there were postal codes, the James's Street Postal Sorting Office looked after the Phoenix Park, because it was considered to be closer and more convenient than Phibsborough. James's Street continued in this role when the postal codes were introduced, so Dublin 8 it had to be."
The outer edges of the Southside and substantial parts of
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown contain those new "A" postcode areas that have been assigned to southern Dublin (some "A" areas are situated in
County Wicklow and
County Meath
County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the ...
and others lie across the
Liffey in northern
Fingal). These are separate from the traditional postal districts but have been unified with them under the new
Eircode system.
Blackrock
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, for example, is in Dublin A94, whereas Dun Laoghaire is in the A96 area. Since Eircode was implemented, Southside postal addresses now take two general forms, depending on whether they lie within the traditional postal district area or not. This is an example of a postal address within the traditional Dublin postal districts:
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: The Shelbourne Hotel,
: 27 St. Stephen's Green,
: Dublin 2,
: D02 K224.
And this is an example of a Southside postal address from outside the traditional postal districts:
: The Mellow Fig,
: 5A George's Avenue,
: Blackrock,
: County Dublin,
: A94 XK11.
See also
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Dublin 4
Dublin 4, also rendered as D4 and D04, is a historic postal district of Dublin, Ireland including Baggot Street Upper, the southernmost fringes of the Dublin Docklands, and the suburbs of Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Irishtown, Merrion, Ringsend ...
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Northside, Dublin
The Northside ( ga, Taobh Ó Thuaidh) is the part of Dublin city that lies to the north of the River Liffey. It is an informal but commonly used term. While it is sometimes regarded as less wealthy than the city's Southside, the Northside wa ...
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List of Eircode routing areas in Ireland
The list of Eircode routing key areas in Ireland is a tabulation of the routing key areas used by An Post and other mail delivery services for the purposes of directing mail within Ireland. A routing key area "defines a principal post town" accord ...
References
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Sub-divisions of County Dublin