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Carrickmines (Irish: Carraig Mhaighin, meaning 'Plateau of rock') is an outer suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.The area, still semi-rural, was historically on the border of English control and featured a defensive construction, Carrickmines Castle, which became the subject of national controversy during the building of a late stage of Dublin's M50 orbital motorway.
Carrickmines Castle. Coordinates: 53.253292°N 6.175398°W. Carrickmines Castle is an archaeological site in Carrickmines, County Dublin, in eastern Ireland. The castle was built in the Middle Ages to protect the English -ruled Pale around Dublin. The mostly subsurface ruins lay in the path of the M50 motorway, completed in 2005.
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The Cartography of Dublin is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the city of Dublin in Ireland. The following is a list of notable historical maps of Dublin City and County Dublin . Scale 1760 yards to 1 English mile. Produced on 4 sheets, each 705x495 mm. Scale 1:2400. Revised edition in 1773.
A standard-issue Dublin street sign with raised lettering. The Dublin postal district is to the right of the street name, which is in Irish and English.. Dublin streets are signed in a style consistent with many European and British cities whereby nearly all signs are placed on buildings adjacent to street junctions, rather than on free-standing signposts.
High Street, Dublin. / 53.34314; -6.27335. High Street ( Irish: An tSráid Ard) [ 1] is a street in the medieval area of Dublin, Ireland. [ 2][ 3] Map of Dublin in 1610; High Street is marked with "48." Map of late medieval Dublin with city wall and High Street.
Dublin was originally a Viking city and after 1171, when an Anglo-Norman army seized it, Dublin became the centre of English rule in Ireland. The native Gaelic Irish were therefore viewed as an alien force in the city, and suspicion of them was deepened by continual raids on Dublin and its environs by the O'Byrne and O'Toole clans from the ...
Dublin Castle (Irish: Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a major Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction. It is located off Dame Street in central Dublin. It is a former motte-and-bailey castle and was chosen for its position at the highest point of central Dublin.