Dartry () is a small suburb of

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, often referred to as a corridor between

Rathmines Rathmines () is an affluent inner suburb on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It lies three kilometres south of the city centre. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to t ...

area and Milltown. Among the locations in Dartry are Dartry Road, Temple Road, Orwell Park and

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Boundaries

Part of Dartry Road is the boundary between the Dublin South-East and Dublin Rathdown

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. This is also the city / county boundary and is physically marked by the

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Transport

Darty holds the terminus for the 140 bus (beside Palmerston Park).

Locales

Dartry Road

In the part of Dartry Road between Palmerston Park and Temple Road is located Trinity Hall, one of the student residences of

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. The side gate opening on Dartry Road is the main pedestrian entrance to the Trinity Hall grounds. Also on the Trinity College grounds at Dartry is the latest (since 1967) home of the centuries-old Trinity College Botanic Garden. The Dropping Well pub at the riverside is built on the site of a mortuary established to deal with dead bodies carried down the river to the pool underneath the nearby waterfall. It was later a well-known destination for "bona fide" travellers who had to have gone more than 3 miles to be served a drink during the holy hour when Dublin pubs used to shut between 2.30 and 3.30 in the afternoon. Dartry Road is known as the scene of the killing of

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member Timothy Coughlin by police informer Sean Harling on the evening of 28 January 1928. It happened opposite 'Woodpark Lodge', where Harling lived at the time.

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, the Irish author famous for writing

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, lived at 12 Sunbury Gardens.

Dartry House

Dartry House is a two-storey mansion built about 1810 with several additions made later such as a turret which was incorporated in the building about 1900. Its original owner was Obadiah Williams, a wealthy merchant of

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origin. Among later owners was

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, who owned

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, was involved with the

Dublin United Tramways Company The Dublin United Transport Company (DUTC) operated trams and buses in Dublin, Ireland until 1945. Following legislation in the Oireachtas, the ''Transport Act, 1944'', the DUTC and the Great Southern Railways were vested in the newly formed ...

(DUTC) and was a central figure in the dispute known as the "Dublin Lockout" of 1913 where the union side was led by

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. The DUTC constructed the tram line from the centre of Dublin to Dartry and Dartry House was built at the original place where the line ended. The terminus of the line and the associated sheds now house an engineering firm.

Scouting

Dartry is home to Dartry Scouts, who have had their den on Sunbury Gardens since the 1970s. The group is the oldest former CBSI scout troop in Ireland and was founded by Father Ernest Farrell in 1927. The group is now secular and mixed.

Sport

The area contains two soccer clubs – the Senior Orwell Dartry and the Junior Dartry Celtic – as well as Brookfield Tennis Club, and Dartry Health Club.

Notable people

* Stephen Hogan, the actor, was born and raised in Darty.

References

{{Dublin residential areas Rathmines