Donnybrook, Dublin

Donnybrook

Domhnach Broc
Donnybrook Domhnach Broc
Urban district
	Donnybrook Road, looking towards Stillorgan
	Donnybrook Location in Ireland
	Coordinates: 53°19′26″N 6°14′24″W / 53.324°N 6.240°W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	Dublin
Dáil Éireann	Dublin Bay South
European Parliament	Dublin
Elevation	11 m (36 ft)
Eircode (Routing Key)	D04
Area code	01 (+3531)
Irish Grid Reference	O169318
Website	www.donnybrooktidytowns.ie

Donnybrook (

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and was once part of the Pembroke Township. Its neighbouring suburbs are Ballsbridge, Sandymount, Ranelagh and Clonskeagh

.

Donnybrook is also a civil parish mainly situated in the old barony of Dublin.

History

Donnybrook Rugby Ground and the Ever Ready Garage. The word donnybrook has since entered the English language to describe a rowdy brawl.^[2]

Donnybrook castle

Donnybrook Castle was an Elizabethan mansion and residence of the Ussher family.

Elizabeth I of England. The mansion was demolished in 1759 and later replaced in 1795 by the existing Georgian house. It is now occupied by the Religious Sisters of Charity.^[3]

Donnybrook cemetery

St Mary's Church of Ireland church, Donnybrook, in 1860.^[4]

The river Dodder runs through Donnybrook and at one time there was a ford here. It is subject to periodic serious flooding and in 1628 one of the Usshers of Donnybrook Castle drowned while trying to cross.^[5]

Civil parish

Donnybrook is a civil parish consisting of sixteen

enclave of Simmonscourt which gives its name to a pavilion of the Royal Dublin Society. Today, the majority of Priesthouse is occupied by Elm Park Golf Club and the studios of RTÉ. The remaining townland of Sallymount - the parish's most westerly point - is in the barony of Uppercross

.

Donnybrook today

The television and radio studios of the national broadcaster, RTÉ, are located in Priesthouse, Donnybrook. There is also a large Dublin Bus garage located in the area.

Politics

Donnybrook is in the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Bay South and the Pembroke local electoral area of Dublin City Council.

Education

Donnybrook is home to the all-girls Muckross Park College.
St. Mary's mixed primary school is located on Belmont Avenue.
The Teresian School is an all-girls Secondary, Junior and Pre-School in Stillorgan Rd.

People

Writers

Patrick Kavanagh
Anthony Trollope
Brian O'Nolan
, lived on Belmont Avenue
Benedict Kiely
Padraic Colum
Brendan Behan
Denis Johnston and his wife, the actress/director Shelah Richards

Others

Jack B. Yeats
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
John Boyd Dunlop (pneumatic tyre inventor)
Guglielmo Marconi (wireless radio - lived in Montrose House, the family home of his mother's family the Jamesons of whiskey fame, now on the grounds of the national broadcaster RTÉ)
Éamon de Valera (President of Ireland)
1916 Easter Rising
)
1916 Easter Rising
)
Michael Collins (Chairman of the Provisional Government and commander-in-chief of the National Army. killed during the Irish Civil War in 1922)
George E. H. McElroy (WWI fighter ace RFC/RAF)
Garret FitzGerald (former Taoiseach of Ireland)
Albert Reynolds (former Taoiseach of Ireland)
Pogues
)
Méav Ní Mhaolchatha (Singer, former Celtic Woman)
Frederick May
William Downes, 1st Baron Downes (eminent nineteenth-century judge)
Herr Otto Flick in sitcom series 'Allo 'Allo!

Beatrice Doran, librarian, historian, and author

Sport

Donnybrook is the traditional home of rugby union in Leinster. The headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union Leinster Branch is located opposite Donnybrook Stadium, where the professional Leinster team played their home games until recently. Most games are hosted in Donnybrook Stadium. Some Junior Cup ties are also hosted on the grounds.

Rugby clubs

Clongowes, St. Michaels

and many more play rugby in Donnybrook Stadium.

There are several tennis clubs in Donnybrook, Donnybrook Lawn Tennis Club (LTC), St.Marys LTC and Bective LTC.

Belmont Football Club has its home ground in Herbert Park.

Merrion Cricket Club is located in Donnybrook, off Anglesea Road and backing onto the Dodder.

References

^ "Definition of DONNYBROOK". www.merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
^ "Definition of DONNYBROOK". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ Beatrice Doran, "Donnybrook: A History", Dublin, The History Press, 2013
^ Gillian Halliday, "Meghan Markle's cousins could be walking streets of Belfast" Archived 2021-12-13 at the Wayback Machine, Belfast Telegraph, 16 July 2018, accessed 7 March 2021
^ Moriarty, Christopher Down the Dodder Wolfhound Press 1991 p.155
^ Placenames Database of Ireland Archived 2021-12-13 at the Wayback Machine - Donnybrook civil parish

Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/donnybrook — etymology of the noun
Dublins Famous People and Where They Lived by John Cowell
A Literary Guide To Dublin by Vivien Igoe

External links

[1] "Definition of DONNYBROOK". www.merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018.

[2] "Definition of DONNYBROOK". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 26 November 2022.

[3] Beatrice Doran, "Donnybrook: A History", Dublin, The History Press, 2013

[4] Gillian Halliday, "Meghan Markle's cousins could be walking streets of Belfast" Archived 2021-12-13 at the Wayback Machine, Belfast Telegraph, 16 July 2018, accessed 7 March 2021

[5] Moriarty, Christopher Down the Dodder Wolfhound Press 1991 p.155

[6] Placenames Database of Ireland Archived 2021-12-13 at the Wayback Machine - Donnybrook civil parish

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