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Rathfarnham (Irish: Ráth Fearnáin, meaning 'Fearnán's ringfort ') is a southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland in County Dublin. It is south of Terenure, east of Templeogue, and is in the postal districts of Dublin 14 and 16. It is between the local government areas of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and South Dublin.
- Early History
- Post Reformation
- From Castles to Country Houses
- Rebellions
- Mills and Industry
- An Explosion of Housing
- Sources
We may safely presume that settlements along the river crossings, particularly that on the hilltop over the Dodder, on the site of Rathfarnham village, go back to ancient times. But the first extant written record of Rathfarnham dates back to 1199, shortly after the Anglo Norman conquest of Ireland, when lands at Rathfarnham were granted by the Eng...
The late 16thcentury saw the Elizabethan English state gradually secure its control over the whole of Ireland, including rebellious upland areas such as the Dublin and Wicklow mountains. But this came at a cost for many of the pre-existing Pale community. Many ‘Old English’ families such as the Harolds and Eustaces found themselves on the wrong sid...
If Rathfarnham was often a violent and lawless frontier zone up the mid 17thcentury, one hundred years later it looked very different. By the mid 1700s it had become a preferred location for the merchants and gentry of Dublin to construct their country residences. Rathfarnham village had largely grown up to serve the needs of neighbouring Rathfarnh...
Rathfarnham, like many other localities in Ireland, became a centre of radicalism in the 1790s, The republican Society of United Irishmen, would meet in the Yellow House pub, which was, in reprisal, destroyed by the authorities in 1803. There seems to have been strong element of class in political divisions in Rathfarnham. The United Irishmen recru...
If Rathfarnham served as a pleasant location for Dublin merchant and gentry class in the 18th and 19th centuries, it also became a hub for proto-industry, particularly water mills, which powered a number of industries from the 1690s until the late 19thcentury. Rathfarnham has three rivers all running south through it from the mountains: the Dodder,...
It was not nationalist revolution, however, but urban sprawl that was to change utterly the character of Rathfarnham. Form the 1940s onwards, the area became of site for middle class suburban housing, with its signature identical concrete semi-detached houses. Today, many of these stretch from the river Dodder almost down to the hills in the south....
Rathfarnham Roads, By Patrick Healy (2005) P. 1, Proceedings of the Battle Conference, Dublin 1997. Healy, Rathfarnham Roads, P.7 Rathfarnham, Dublin Anglican History. South Dublin County Council Rathfarnham chronology Healy Rathfarnham Roads P. 7 Healy Rathfarnham Roads P.42 Rathfarnham by Maurice Curtis, The History Press, 2013. P.13 Healy, Rathf...
Rathfarnham Castle. The castle at Rathfarnham dates back to the Elizabethan period. It was built for Adam Loftus, a Yorkshire clergyman and politician. Loftus was ambitious and eventually rose to become Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
Rathfarnham, located in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains and close to the River Dodder, is just six miles from the city centre. The name Rathfarnham comes from the Irish Ráth Fearnáin, which means “The Rath/Fort of Fearnan”.
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Rathfarnham Castle. Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin By Muirne Lyons Rathfarnham Castle is a sixteenth-century semi-fortified house with an eighteenth-century Georgian interior. It was built in 1583 by Adam Loftus (c. 1533–1605), who came to Ireland in 1560 and quickly rose to a number of prestigious positions, including archbishop of Dublin and lord ...
Rathfarnham Castle (Irish: Caisleán Rath Fearnáin) is a 16th-century fortified house in Rathfarnham, South Dublin, Ireland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Originally a semi-fortified and battlemented structure it underwent extensive alterations in the 18th century.
