County Dublin · Leinster
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire
'the fort of Laoghaire', for Lóegaire mac Néill, 5th-century high king
The story
The fort is said to have been Lóegaire's sea base for raiding Britain and Gaul. The town as it stands was built after 1816 legislation allowed a great harbour to serve Dublin. It was renamed Kingstown in 1821 when George IV sailed from it, and took its own name back in August 1920.
Worth seeing nearby
- Clontarf · Good Friday 1014: Brian Boru's forces break Leinster and Dublin's Vikings — and Brian is killed praying in his tent. Now a quiet seafront suburb.
- Gleann na Smól — Oisín returns · After 300 years in Tír na nÓg, Oisín came home, touched the ground helping men lift a stone, and aged in an instant — to tell Patrick the tales of the Fianna.
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