GEORGE IV MEMORIAL ERECTED IN 1823PHOTOGRAPHED 3 AUGUST 2022
The town was officially renamed Kingstown in 1821 in honour of a visit by the British King George IV, but reverted to its ancient Irish name by resolution of the town council in 1921
CHRIST THE KING BY ANDREW O'CONNOR A LARGE TRIPLE CROSS IN DUN LAOGHAIRE
I have noticed that very few passers-by pay any attention to this large sculpture located beside the LexIcon Library and Cultural Centre in Dun Laoghaire.
The west pier of Dún Laoghaire harbour is less frequented than east pier and has an earthen track road and spectacular views of Dublin bay. It was constructed between 1820 and 1827 and measures 1,548 metres. The west pier is often quieter than the east pier and has better views of Dublin and Howth. It can also pass more convincingly as a period location.
Over the past decade, Monkstown village which still retains one of Ireland’s oldest original shopfronts, Lane McCormack’s pharmacy, has seen the arrival of many small independent shops selling everything from flower pots to quality wines. The village even has an amateur dramatics society, whose recent performance of Factory Girls sold out every night at the local Knox Hall.
Dún Laoghaire's origins are generally assumed to trace back to a fort that is believed to have stood there and mostly likely to have belonged to Lóegaire mac Néill. A 1686 map of Dublin Bay by Greenvile Collins gives the name as Dun Lerroy. A later map from 1728 shows a small fishing village at the old harbour, marked as Dunlary or in other later maps as Dunleary. The earlier village was around the area where the Purty Kitchen pub is now (sometimes mapped as "Old Dunleary"). It had a coffee house and a small cove, both of which are shown on a number of old maps, and it may have had a salt mine (Salthill is close by).
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