Category: Dublin

Swords, which is bordered by the rivers Tolka and Delvin with the River Ward moving through it, is located 13 Km from Dublin City and with numerous historical structures is a reminder of it’s bloody past. Swords which is currently the authoritative capital of Fingal persevered through a thousand years of mismanagement from the Anglo…

The zone was home to the Norman Blanchard family who were conceded the terrains by the English crown in the thirteenth century. The territory remained scarcely populated and Blanchardstown remained a little country town until the 1960’s. In the 1970’s, Dublin’s growth assigned Blanchardstown to become a sleeper town with straight access to the city’s…

Paddy’s Hill, on the drift street to Portmarnock sitting above Malahide Estuary, is the most punctual confirmation we have of a home site in the zone dating from c.6000 B.C. The Fir Domhnainn are likewise presumed to have settled here, where they remained “angling and fowling” for a couple of hundred years. Custom has it…

Barely any areas have been changed as totally in 10 years as Dundrum in Dublin 14 – established in the eighth Century, invigorated against nation people in the thirteenth and changed into a shopping mecca in the 21st. Beforehand, Dundrum (which traverses both the D14 and D16 postcodes) was a sprawling suburb with a notoriety…

Besides the city’s modern Irish name, Baile Átha Claith, meaning ‘Town of the Hurdle Ford’ – in reference to the original Celtic settlement on the Liffey’s northern bank. Even the three 12th-century behemoths of the Norman occupation – Dublin Castle, Christchurch Cathedral and St Patrick’s Cathedral – which ushered in 800 years of British rule,…

The name of the town Rathfarnham originates from the Irish Ráth Fearnáin which implies The Rath or Fort of Fearnan. Rathfarnham is a town situated in South Dublin. The historical backdrop of Rathfarnham, to the extent we can gain from existing records, started at the season of the Anglo-Norman intrusion in 1199 when the terrains…