The name “Phibsborough” comes from “Phipps” or “Phibbs.” This is believed to relate to the Lincolnshire settler Richard Phibbs of Coote’s Horse, resident in Kilmainham from the mid-17th century. The spelling being Phippsborough back in the 1790s.
Phibsborough also spelled Phibsboro, is a mixed commercial and residential neighbourhood on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.
The Bradogue River crosses the area in a culvert, and the Royal Canal passes through its northern reaches, notably at Cross Guns Bridge. Formerly, a branch of the canal ran to the Broadstone basin, later the site of the Midland Great Western Railway Terminus and currently the headquarters of Bus Éireann. Mountjoy Prison is located in the district.
Phibsborough, Grangegorman and Broadstone both have stops on the Luas Green Line located along the former Midland & Great Western Railway line. Up until the Covid-19 lockdowns I used the LUAS tram service on a daily basis but I no longer use public transport and do noy intend doing so until after I get a vaccine.
The Phibsborough stop is located at the railway cutting between the North Circular Road and the Cabra Road. It has lateral platforms. Access to the platform level is from both the North Circular and Cabra Roads via stairs and lifts from the new deck levels abutting the existing road overbridges. The Broadstone stop is located at Prebend Street and the Western Way. The Phibsboro stop serves the residential communities and facilitates interchange with bus services on the North Circular and Cabra Roads. The Broadstone stop, my local stop, serves the Mountjoy area and the newly built Technological University Dublin campus located at Grangegorman.
The Luas Cross City project has joined the Luas Red and Green lines with a line from Broombridge in North Dublin (interchange with Irish Rail station) and St. Stephen’s Green Green Line stop. Services began in December 2017.
MONKSTOWN AND SALTHILL – DUN LAOGHAIRE COUNTY DUBLIN
Monkstown, historically known as Carrickbrennan, is a suburb in south Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is on the coast, between Blackrock and Dún Laoghaire.
The lands of the Carrickbrennan estate form the greater part of the civil parish of Monkstown.
Monkstown has two old established churches, Saint Mary’s Church of Ireland (1831) and Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church (1866), both on Carrickbrennan Road. Saint John’s Church, located at Gamble’s Hill, was originally constructed as a Church of Ireland Church in the 1860s but was renovated and re-consecrated by the Society of Saint Pius X after 1985. Buildings of other religious denominations include the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses at Monkstown Farm, and the Meeting Hall of the Society of Friends at the junction of Packenham Road and Carrickbrennan Road. There is also the Friends Burial Ground (Quaker) located at Temple Hill just off Monkstown Road.
Monkstown Castle, which was probably built in the 12th or 13th centuries, was erected by the monks of the abbey of the Virgin Mary, near Dublin.
Monkstown is also noted for its coastline, which is home to a number of historical buildings of the Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian periods.[citation needed] One of the most notable buildings of the Salthill and Monkstown area is a Martello Tower, located at Seapoint beach.
Salthill is the seaside part of Monkstown and is the location of the local commuter rail station. Salthill was the location of an upmarket hotel designed by J.S. Mulvany for the Dublin & Kingstown Railway Co., in 1836 but not actually constructed until 1843. The hotel was extended in the 1860s by John McCurdy. Unfortunately the hotel was destroyed by fire in 1970 and demolished in 1972.
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