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Rathgar
Rathgar () is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan .... Originally a village, which from 1862 was part of the township of Rathmines and Rathgar, it was absorbed by the growing city and became a suburb in 1930. It lies about three kilometres south of the city centre. Location Rathgar is on the southside of Dublin, beside Dartry, Harold's Cross, Rathmines and Terenure. Other nearby suburbs are Crumlin, Kimmage, Milltown, Ranelagh, and Rathfarnham. The Grand Canal flows to the north. The majority of the area lies within the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council and straddles the postal boundary of Dublin 6. Rathgar is in the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Bay South. History Rathgar in the Middle Ages was a farm belonging to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathgar Castle
Rathgar () is a suburb of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Originally a village, which from 1862 was part of the township of Rathmines and Rathgar, it was absorbed by the growing city and became a suburb in 1930. It lies about three kilometres south of the city centre. Location Rathgar is on the Southside, Dublin, southside of Dublin, beside Dartry, Harold's Cross, Rathmines and Terenure. Other nearby suburbs are Crumlin, Dublin, Crumlin, Kimmage, Milltown, Dublin, Milltown, Ranelagh, and Rathfarnham. The Grand Canal (Ireland), Grand Canal flows to the north. The majority of the area lies within the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council and straddles the postal boundary of Dublin 6. Rathgar is in the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Bay South (Dáil constituency), Dublin Bay South. History Rathgar in the Middle Ages was a farm belonging to the Convent of St Mary de Hogges, at present-day College Green, Dublin, College Green. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Rathg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathmines And Rathgar
Rathmines and Rathgar is a former second-tier local government area within County Dublin. It was created as the Township of Rathmines in 1847. In 1862, its area was expanded and it became the Township of Rathmines and Rathgar. In 1899, it became an urban district. It was abolished in 1930, and its area absorbed into the city of Dublin. Area The Township of Rathmines was created in 1847, including the districts of Rathmines, Mount Pleasant, Ranelagh, Cullenswood, Rathgar, and Harold's Cross. In 1862, it was extended further into Rathgar and took in the List of townlands of County Dublin, townland of Sallymount, and in 1880 took in the townland of Milltown. In 1899, it became an urban district (Ireland), urban district under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. In 1930, the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar and the urban district of Pembroke, Dublin, Pembroke were abolished and the area added to the city of Dublin. Politics At the 1920 Rathmines and Rathgar Urban Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathmines
Rathmines (; ) is an inner suburb on the Southside (Dublin), Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal of Ireland, Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east, and Harold's Cross to the west. It is situated in the city's List of Dublin postal districts, D06 postal district. Rathmines is a commercial and social hub and was well known across Ireland as "Flatland"—an area where subdivided large Georgian and Victorian houses provided rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third-level students from outside the city from the 1930s. However, in more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many historic houses formerly divided into often tiny flats and bedsits have in a process of gentrifying been re-amalgamated into single-family homes. Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin Belgravia" in the 19th Century. Name Rathmines is an Anglici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terenure
Terenure (), originally called ''Roundtown'', is a middle class suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It is located in the city's D6 and D6W postal districts. The population of all electoral divisions labelled as Terenure was 17,972 as of the 2022 census. Location and transport Terenure lies primarily in the administrative area of Dublin City Council but with parts falling in South Dublin. It is located south of Harold's Cross and north of Rathfarnham, and also borders the suburbs of Templeogue, Rathgar, Kimmage and Perrystown. ''Terenure Cross'' (Vaughan's Corner) was at one time a terminus for the Dublin tramways, and is mentioned in James Joyce's novel '' Ulysses'' (Episode 7, 'Aeolus'). There were three tram depots in Terenure at one time, the main tram depot for the number 15 Dublin United Transport Company (DUTC) trams on Terenure Road East, another DUTC depot for number 16 trams on Rathfarnham Road, and the terminus of the Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway on Templeogue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranelagh
Ranelagh ( , ; , ) is an affluent residential area and urban village on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland in the postal district of Dublin 6. Ranelagh was originally a village called Cullenswood. It has a history of conflict, including the attack on English inhabitants in 1207 and the Battle of Rathmines in 1649. Incorporated into Dublin in the 19th century, it experienced significant development. Ranelagh Gardens, a popular entertainment venue, was established in the 1770s, and Richard Crosbie famously flew in a hot air balloon from the Gardens in 1785. In the 1970s and 1980s, areas of Ranelagh were bought for office space development. Today, the district is part of the local electoral area of Pembroke. Ranelagh is home to several primary and secondary schools, including Scoil Bhríde, the first Irish-language school in Ireland, and Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School. Ranelagh has been the setting for a number of literary and film works, such as Lee Dunne's ''Goodbye to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Dublin
County Dublin ( or ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, and holds its capital city, Dublin. It is located on the island's east coast, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. Until 1994, County Dublin (excluding the city) was a single Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local government area; in that year, the county council was divided into three new administrative counties: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. The three administrative counties together with Dublin City proper form a NUTS III NUTS statistical regions of Ireland, statistical region of Ireland (coded IE061). County Dublin remains a single administrative unit for the purposes of the courts (including the Dublin County Sheriff, but excluding the bailiwick of the Dublin City Sheriff) and Dublin County combined with Dublin City forms the Judicial County of Dublin, including Dublin Circuit Court, the Dublin County Registrar and the Dublin Metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cusacke
John Cusacke (died 1626) was a wealthy merchant, landowner and local politician in seventeenth-century Dublin, who served as both Mayor and Sheriff of Dublin city. He was born in County Meath, eldest of the ten children of Patrick Cusacke of Ballymolghan and his wife Maud Plunkett, daughter of Thomas Plunkett of Loch Gabhair (Lagore), Ratoath. The Cusacks were recorded at Ballymolghan from 1508. He was admitted as a freeman of the city of Dublin in 1592, having served his apprenticeship. He married Margaret Allen, daughter of Giles Allen, a former Mayor of Dublin, and widow of John Gough, an alderman. They had five children, including Robert, who inherited his father's estate and sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Kells in 1640–1642, and Anne, who married Richard Barry. John served as Sheriff of Dublin City in 1599–1600 and was an alderman of Dublin Corporation from 1604 until his death. He was active on several committees of the corporation, notably one to lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
