Mar 14, 2024
See also Raheny, Bayside and other Dublin areas here. A Viking Longphort Did Viking feet once tread through Clongriffin? Aerial photography has revealed an extensive earthworks in the townland of Maynetown (An Mhaighean / Moyne), north-east of this station. It is...
Mar 6, 2024
St Brigid in Killester Kilbride Road refers to the ‘church of Bride’ as in St Brigid. According to legend, she is said to have performed several miracles in Killester during her visit to the convent of Lasera, aka Cill Lasera, sometimes Easra (perhaps Easrach), from...
Feb 27, 2024
See also: Notes on Howth & the Howth Head Peninusla The Grange Most of present-day Donaghmede and Clongriffin falls within the 451-acre townland of Grange. Eight hundred years ago, this was an extensive farm run by the Augustinian monks of the Priory of All...
Feb 19, 2024
Click here for further tales of Dublin City and County Dublin Eureka! Born on Dublin’s Dominick Street in 1805, Sir William Rowan Hamilton served as Royal Astronomer of Ireland from 1827 until his death in 1865. On 16 October 1843, he and his wife Helen were...
Feb 16, 2024
Click here for further tales of Dublin City and County Dublin, including Kilbarrack, Harmonstown, Sutton, Howth and Killester. Éanna’s Fort Raheny derives its name from Rath Éanna (or Ráth Eanaigh), meaning “the fort of the marsh”.[1] This refers to a large rath,...
