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[[Image:Monkstown Dublin.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown showing to the left [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland)]] and St. Patricks Church (Roman Catholic) to the right]]

'''Monkstown''' ({{Irish place name|Baile na Manach}}), historically known as '''Carrickbrennan''' ({{lang-gle|Carraig Bhraonáin}}), is an area in south [[Dublin]], located in [[Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]] County, [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is on the coast, between [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]] and [[Dún Laoghaire]]. The [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] stations of Seapoint and ''Salthill and Monkstown'' serve the area.

The lands of the Carrickbrennan estate form the greater part of the civil parish of Monkstown.

Monkstown is part of the [[Dáil Éireann]] constituency of [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]].

== History ==
In 1539, King Henry VIII awarded the Monkstown lands to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland. John Travers lived in his Castle at Monkstown from 1557 to his death in 1562 (he is buried in the [[Carrickbrennan Graveyard]]) when the property fell to James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass through his marriage to Mary Travers. In 1580, the Castle was used as a rebellion stronghold, after which it was awarded to Sir [[Henry Wallop]], Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. The lands were later returned to Mary, the widowed Lady Baltinglass, who later married Gerald Alymer. On her death in 1610 the Castle was transferred to the Chevers family through the marriage of Mary Travers's sister Catherine to John Chevers, and the property passed directly to his second son Henry Chevers, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam. Henry and Catherine Chevers lived here with their four children (Walter, Thomas, Patrick, Margaret).{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Upon the death of Henry in 1640, the castle and lands were passed to Walter Cheevers. Walter and family received command to vacate Monkstown in 1653 by the Cromwellian Commissioners, and transplanted to Killyan, [[County Galway]]. In 1660, Walter Chevers was restored to his estate at Monkstown Castle, until his death in 1678. His death occurred on the 20th day of December 1678, and he was buried at Mountoun (Monkstown), two days later on 22nd.<ref>{{Citation | title = Funeral Certificate}}.</ref> The Shivers family of America trace their lineage to Thomas Chevers brother of Walter Chevers of Monkstown, through the Cromwellian warrant, authorized on 26 November 1653 for Captain John Whittey to transport the Thomas Chevers family to America.

Monkstown was later purchased by the [[ Archbishop of Armagh]], [[Michael Boyle (the younger)|Michael Boyle]] where his son [[Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington]] enlarged the castle making it one of the finest residences.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Until about 1800, Monkstown was a rural area of open countryside, dotted here and there with large houses owned by the merchants of Dublin. The [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church (Church of Ireland)]] had been built – but was smaller than the present church. Two rivers met in the area now called Pakenham Road. The river known as Micky Briens originated in [[Sallynoggin]]. A lake beside Monkstown Castle had one small island. The coastline was ragged and rocky, with a harbour stretching over 100 yards inland at the mouth of the aforementioned rivers, adjacent to the area now occupied by the West Pier. [[Dún Laoghaire]] (then called Dunleary, and later Kingstown) was then a small group of houses in the area of the Purty Kitchen, and the present area of Dún Laoghaire was an area of rocky outcrops and later, quarries.

Wednesday, November 18, 1807 was South Dublin's night of disasters. In an horrific storm, two sailing ships, the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales were blown on to the rocks, one at Seapoint and the other at Blackrock. About 400 lives in total were lost on that night, many of them washed up on the shore at Monkstown. The disaster was one of the factors which led to the building of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Most of the victims were buried in [[Carrickbrennan Churchyard]].

The building of Dún Laoghaire harbour gave an impetus to the area, and Montpelier Terrace was the first of many terraces built in the area. The coming of the railway in 1837 had a much greater impact. Firstly, it changed the topology of the coast, and secondly, it led to Monkstown becoming a commuter suburb of the city of Dublin. Most of the houses along Monkstown Road and the avenues north of that road were constructed over the next 30 years. The maps of 1870 show this phase completed, but the rest of Monkstown consists of mansions surrounded by extensive gardens. For the following 50 years there was little change. The post-war developments of Castle Park, Richmond, Windsor, etc. and the more recent developments of Brook Court, Monkstown Valley, and Carrickbrennan Lawn mean that there is little opportunity for further development.

The diaries of the Rev John Thomas Hynes (1799–1868), a Catholic bishop who retired to Monkstown in 1861–[[1868 |68]], provide a valuable insight into daily life in Monkstown in that period. Hynes lived at Bloomwood, Monkstown Avenue (later renamed as Carrickbrennan Road), and later moved to Uplands, The Hill, Monkstown. The Hynes Diaries recount such details as the coming of gas lighting, the postal and travel facilities, church affairs, and lots of local gossip. The Hynes diaries are now preserved in Melbourne, but the full text has been made available online<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/research/condon/Hynes/ | title = Diaries | last = Hynes | publisher = Unisa | place = [[Australia |AU]]}}.</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=nb}}

===Documentary references===
* Monkstown is first mentioned in 1450; ''Tenants Cistercians at Carrickbrennan, Villa Monachorum''.
* Carrickbrennan, or "Carigbrenna", features on the 1598 map [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/104/zoom.html "A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles"] by [[Abraham Ortelius]].
* Records of the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1640.
* Forfeiting Proprietors under the Cromwellian Settlement 1657.
* In James Joyce's "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta live in Monkstown.

{{anchor|Castle}}

== Noted buildings ==
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the East.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the east.]]
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the North.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the north.]]
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, Dublin|Friends Burial Ground (Quaker)]] located at Temple Hill just off Monkstown Road.

[[Monkstown Castle, County Dublin|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 beautiful coastline, which displays many historical buildings of the Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian periods. One of the most notable buildings of the Salthill and Monkstown area is a [[Martello Tower]], located at Seapoint beach.

== Sports ==
Monkstown Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1877. It was the first tennis club in Ireland.

[[Monkstown Football Club]] was founded in the village in 1883 before moving to [[Sandymount]] in 1901.

Monkstown (Dublin) Boxing Club was founded in 2004, their gym is situated in the newly built Mounttown Community Centre in Fitzgerald Park, in the Monkstown Farm Area.

Farm Utd Football Club was form in 1935, and uses part of the Monkstown Community Centre as its dressing rooms.

Monkstown also has a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Ireland. Their gym is situated in the Mounttown Industrial Estate.

Monkstown also has a thriving hockey club, [[Monkstown Hockey Club]] based in the Rathdown School.

== Culture ==
Monkstown has a locally known [[puppet]] theatre named [[Lambert Puppet Theatre]], a family-run business. Every year the puppet theatre hosts an international puppet festival. It used to run series on national television, [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]. [[Michael Jackson]] once saw a puppet show in this theatre.

[[Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]], an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish traditional music]]), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does [[BirdWatch Ireland]].

== Education ==
A multi-denominational primary school, Monkstown Educate Together National School (METNS), a fee paying [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]] School, [[CBC Monkstown]] Park, and Holy Family National School<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie/ | title = Holy Family national school | publisher = Scoil net | place = [[Ireland |IE]]}}.</ref> are located in the Monkstown area. A [[Gaelscoil]] is also located in Monkstown, [[Scoil Lorcáin]], teaching all classes through [[Irish language| Irish]].

St. Oliver Plunkett N.S is a school for children with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SLD). This school caters for children from a wide catchment area.

[[C.B.C. Monkstown|Christian Brother's College]] consists of two schools; an Independent preparatory school with over 200 students and a secondary school with more than 500 students. CBC caters for boys from junior infants through sixth year. It is to be demolished and rebuilt in the coming years.<ref>{{Citation | place = IE | url = http://www.cbcmonkstown.ie/ | title = Christian Brother's College | accessdate = 07-02-2008}}.</ref>

== Transport ==
An [[Aircoach]] service starting in Dalkey links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

==People==
Sir [[William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]] (1800–[[1867 |64]]) lived at 1 Eaton Place, and built several telescopes, including the world's largest telescope in 1845, which remained the world's largest for the rest of the century. Using this telescope he saw and catalogued a large number of galaxies.<ref name= "bdldtrkf">{{Citation | first1 = Tom | last1 = Roche | first2 = Ken | last2 = Finlay | year = 2003 | title = Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey (Along the coast from Booterstown to Killiney)}}.</ref>{{Page needed | date = December 2013}}

Alfred Gresham Jones (1824?–1913) was an Irish architect who designed Merrion Hall on Merrion Street Lower, now the Davenport hotel, in 1862 and designed the villa ''Verona'' in Queen's Park in 1873. He lived at Queen's Park House from 1869–[[1872 |72]], at Clifton Lodge on Seafield Ave 1873–[[1876 |76]], at Villa Carlotta on Queen's Park 1886–[[1888 |88]], and then emigrated to Australia.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/430 | contribution = Alfred Gresham Jones | title = The Directory of Irish Architects}}.</ref>

[[Richard Pigott]] (1835–[[1889 |89]]) lived at 7 De Vesci Terrace. He was an Irish journalist, best known for selling the Pigott forgeries.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

Sir [[Howard Grubb]] (1844–[[1931 |31]]) was a designer and maker of telescopes. He lived at De Vesci Terrace, and from 1925, at 13 Longford Terrace, which now bears a plaque.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />
*[[David Howell Evans|The Edge]].
*[[Chris DeBurgh]]
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]]
*[[Paul McGuinness]]
*[[Malcolm Arnold]]
*[[Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh]]
*[[Tim Pat Coogan]]
*[[D.J. Carey]]
*[[John O'Shea (humanitarian)]]

== See also ==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School]
*[http://www.metns.ie/ Monkstown Educate Together National School]
*[http://www.monkstownvillage.com/ "Monkstown Village"]
*[http://comhaltas.ie Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]
*[http://www.craobhphiarais.com Cumann na nÓg]
*[http://www.monkstownparish.ie/maps.htm Monkstown Parish Maps]

{{Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown}}
{{Dublin residential areas}}

[[Category:Places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]]

Monkstown Castle

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[[Image:Monkstown Dublin.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown showing to the left [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland)]] and St. Patricks Church (Roman Catholic) to the right]]

'''Monkstown''' ({{Irish place name|Baile na Manach}}), historically known as '''Carrickbrennan''' ({{lang-gle|Carraig Bhraonáin}}), is an area in south [[Dublin]], located in [[Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]] County, [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is on the coast, between [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]] and [[Dún Laoghaire]]. The [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] stations of Seapoint and ''Salthill and Monkstown'' serve the area.

The lands of the Carrickbrennan estate form the greater part of the civil parish of Monkstown.

Monkstown is part of the [[Dáil Éireann]] constituency of [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]].

== History ==
In 1539, King Henry VIII awarded the Monkstown lands to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland. John Travers lived in his Castle at Monkstown from 1557 to his death in 1562 (he is buried in the [[Carrickbrennan Graveyard]]) when the property fell to James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass through his marriage to Mary Travers. In 1580, the Castle was used as a rebellion stronghold, after which it was awarded to Sir [[Henry Wallop]], Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. The lands were later returned to Mary, the widowed Lady Baltinglass, who later married Gerald Alymer. On her death in 1610 the Castle was transferred to the Chevers family through the marriage of Mary Travers's sister Catherine to John Chevers, and the property passed directly to his second son Henry Chevers, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam. Henry and Catherine Chevers lived here with their four children (Walter, Thomas, Patrick, Margaret).{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Upon the death of Henry in 1640, the castle and lands were passed to Walter Cheevers. Walter and family received command to vacate Monkstown in 1653 by the Cromwellian Commissioners, and transplanted to Killyan, [[County Galway]]. In 1660, Walter Chevers was restored to his estate at Monkstown Castle, until his death in 1678. His death occurred on the 20th day of December 1678, and he was buried at Mountoun (Monkstown), two days later on 22nd.<ref>{{Citation | title = Funeral Certificate}}.</ref> The Shivers family of America trace their lineage to Thomas Chevers brother of Walter Chevers of Monkstown, through the Cromwellian warrant, authorized on 26 November 1653 for Captain John Whittey to transport the Thomas Chevers family to America.

Monkstown was later purchased by the [[ Archbishop of Armagh]], [[Michael Boyle (the younger)|Michael Boyle]] where his son [[Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington]] enlarged the castle making it one of the finest residences.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Until about 1800, Monkstown was a rural area of open countryside, dotted here and there with large houses owned by the merchants of Dublin. The [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church (Church of Ireland)]] had been built – but was smaller than the present church. Two rivers met in the area now called Pakenham Road. The river known as Micky Briens originated in [[Sallynoggin]]. A lake beside Monkstown Castle had one small island. The coastline was ragged and rocky, with a harbour stretching over 100 yards inland at the mouth of the aforementioned rivers, adjacent to the area now occupied by the West Pier. [[Dún Laoghaire]] (then called Dunleary, and later Kingstown) was then a small group of houses in the area of the Purty Kitchen, and the present area of Dún Laoghaire was an area of rocky outcrops and later, quarries.

Wednesday, November 18, 1807 was South Dublin's night of disasters. In an horrific storm, two sailing ships, the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales were blown on to the rocks, one at Seapoint and the other at Blackrock. About 400 lives in total were lost on that night, many of them washed up on the shore at Monkstown. The disaster was one of the factors which led to the building of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Most of the victims were buried in [[Carrickbrennan Churchyard]].

The building of Dún Laoghaire harbour gave an impetus to the area, and Montpelier Terrace was the first of many terraces built in the area. The coming of the railway in 1837 had a much greater impact. Firstly, it changed the topology of the coast, and secondly, it led to Monkstown becoming a commuter suburb of the city of Dublin. Most of the houses along Monkstown Road and the avenues north of that road were constructed over the next 30 years. The maps of 1870 show this phase completed, but the rest of Monkstown consists of mansions surrounded by extensive gardens. For the following 50 years there was little change. The post-war developments of Castle Park, Richmond, Windsor, etc. and the more recent developments of Brook Court, Monkstown Valley, and Carrickbrennan Lawn mean that there is little opportunity for further development.

The diaries of the Rev John Thomas Hynes (1799–1868), a Catholic bishop who retired to Monkstown in 1861–[[1868 |68]], provide a valuable insight into daily life in Monkstown in that period. Hynes lived at Bloomwood, Monkstown Avenue (later renamed as Carrickbrennan Road), and later moved to Uplands, The Hill, Monkstown. The Hynes Diaries recount such details as the coming of gas lighting, the postal and travel facilities, church affairs, and lots of local gossip. The Hynes diaries are now preserved in Melbourne, but the full text has been made available online<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/research/condon/Hynes/ | title = Diaries | last = Hynes | publisher = Unisa | place = [[Australia |AU]]}}.</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=nb}}

===Documentary references===
* Monkstown is first mentioned in 1450; ''Tenants Cistercians at Carrickbrennan, Villa Monachorum''.
* Carrickbrennan, or "Carigbrenna", features on the 1598 map [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/104/zoom.html "A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles"] by [[Abraham Ortelius]].
* Records of the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1640.
* Forfeiting Proprietors under the Cromwellian Settlement 1657.
* In James Joyce's "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta live in Monkstown.

{{anchor|Castle}}

== Noted buildings ==
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the East.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the east.]]
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the North.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the north.]]
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, Dublin|Friends Burial Ground (Quaker)]] located at Temple Hill just off Monkstown Road.

[[Monkstown Castle, County Dublin|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 beautiful coastline, which displays many historical buildings of the Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian periods. One of the most notable buildings of the Salthill and Monkstown area is a [[Martello Tower]], located at Seapoint beach.

== Sports ==
Monkstown Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1877. It was the first tennis club in Ireland.

[[Monkstown Football Club]] was founded in the village in 1883 before moving to [[Sandymount]] in 1901.

Monkstown (Dublin) Boxing Club was founded in 2004, their gym is situated in the newly built Mounttown Community Centre in Fitzgerald Park, in the Monkstown Farm Area.

Farm Utd Football Club was form in 1935, and uses part of the Monkstown Community Centre as its dressing rooms.

Monkstown also has a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Ireland. Their gym is situated in the Mounttown Industrial Estate.

Monkstown also has a thriving hockey club, [[Monkstown Hockey Club]] based in the Rathdown School.

== Culture ==
Monkstown has a locally known [[puppet]] theatre named [[Lambert Puppet Theatre]], a family-run business. Every year the puppet theatre hosts an international puppet festival. It used to run series on national television, [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]. [[Michael Jackson]] once saw a puppet show in this theatre.

[[Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]], an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish traditional music]]), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does [[BirdWatch Ireland]].

== Education ==
A multi-denominational primary school, Monkstown Educate Together National School (METNS), a fee paying [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]] School, [[CBC Monkstown]] Park, and Holy Family National School<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie/ | title = Holy Family national school | publisher = Scoil net | place = [[Ireland |IE]]}}.</ref> are located in the Monkstown area. A [[Gaelscoil]] is also located in Monkstown, [[Scoil Lorcáin]], teaching all classes through [[Irish language| Irish]].

St. Oliver Plunkett N.S is a school for children with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SLD). This school caters for children from a wide catchment area.

[[C.B.C. Monkstown|Christian Brother's College]] consists of two schools; an Independent preparatory school with over 200 students and a secondary school with more than 500 students. CBC caters for boys from junior infants through sixth year. It is to be demolished and rebuilt in the coming years.<ref>{{Citation | place = IE | url = http://www.cbcmonkstown.ie/ | title = Christian Brother's College | accessdate = 07-02-2008}}.</ref>

== Transport ==
An [[Aircoach]] service starting in Dalkey links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

==People==
Sir [[William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]] (1800–[[1867 |64]]) lived at 1 Eaton Place, and built several telescopes, including the world's largest telescope in 1845, which remained the world's largest for the rest of the century. Using this telescope he saw and catalogued a large number of galaxies.<ref name= "bdldtrkf">{{Citation | first1 = Tom | last1 = Roche | first2 = Ken | last2 = Finlay | year = 2003 | title = Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey (Along the coast from Booterstown to Killiney)}}.</ref>{{Page needed | date = December 2013}}

Alfred Gresham Jones (1824?–1913) was an Irish architect who designed Merrion Hall on Merrion Street Lower, now the Davenport hotel, in 1862 and designed the villa ''Verona'' in Queen's Park in 1873. He lived at Queen's Park House from 1869-1872, at Clifton Lodge on Seafield Ave 1873-1876, at Villa Carlotta on Queen's Park 1886–[[1888 |88]], after which he emigrated to Australia.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/430 | contribution = Alfred Gresham Jones | title = The Directory of Irish Architects}}.</ref>

[[Richard Pigott]] (1835–[[1889 |89]]) lived at 7 De Vesci Terrace. He was an Irish journalist, best known for selling the Pigott forgeries.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

Sir [[Howard Grubb]] (1844–[[1931 |31]]) was a designer and maker of telescopes. He lived at De Vesci Terrace, and from 1925, at 13 Longford Terrace, which now bears a plaque.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />
*[[David Howell Evans|The Edge]].
*[[Chris DeBurgh]]
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]]
*[[Paul McGuinness]]
*[[Malcolm Arnold]]
*[[Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh]]
*[[Tim Pat Coogan]]
*[[D.J. Carey]]
*[[John O'Shea (humanitarian)]]

== See also ==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School]
*[http://www.metns.ie/ Monkstown Educate Together National School]
*[http://www.monkstownvillage.com/ "Monkstown Village"]
*[http://comhaltas.ie Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]
*[http://www.craobhphiarais.com Cumann na nÓg]
*[http://www.monkstownparish.ie/maps.htm Monkstown Parish Maps]

{{Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown}}
{{Dublin residential areas}}

[[Category:Places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]]

Monkstown Castle

2013-12-30T14:32:16Z

200.219.132.103: References details.

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[[Image:Monkstown Dublin.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown showing to the left [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland)]] and St. Patricks Church (Roman Catholic) to the right]]

'''Monkstown''' ({{Irish place name|Baile na Manach}}), historically known as '''Carrickbrennan''' ({{lang-gle|Carraig Bhraonáin}}), is an area in south [[Dublin]], located in [[Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]] County, [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is on the coast, between [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]] and [[Dún Laoghaire]]. The [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] stations of Seapoint and ''Salthill and Monkstown'' serve the area.

The lands of the Carrickbrennan estate form the greater part of the civil parish of Monkstown.

Monkstown is part of the [[Dáil Éireann]] constituency of [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]].

== History ==
In 1539, King Henry VIII awarded the Monkstown lands to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland. John Travers lived in his Castle at Monkstown from 1557 to his death in 1562 (he is buried in the [[Carrickbrennan Graveyard]]) when the property fell to James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass through his marriage to Mary Travers. In 1580, the Castle was used as a rebellion stronghold, after which it was awarded to Sir [[Henry Wallop]], Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. The lands were later returned to Mary, the widowed Lady Baltinglass, who later married Gerald Alymer. On her death in 1610 the Castle was transferred to the Chevers family through the marriage of Mary Travers's sister Catherine to John Chevers, and the property passed directly to his second son Henry Chevers, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam. Henry and Catherine Chevers lived here with their four children (Walter, Thomas, Patrick, Margaret).{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Upon the death of Henry in 1640, the castle and lands were passed to Walter Cheevers. Walter and family received command to vacate Monkstown in 1653 by the Cromwellian Commissioners, and transplanted to Killyan, [[County Galway]]. In 1660, Walter Chevers was restored to his estate at Monkstown Castle, until his death in 1678. His death occurred on the 20th day of December 1678, and he was buried at Mountoun (Monkstown), two days later on 22nd.<ref>{{Citation | title = Funeral Certificate}}.</ref> The Shivers family of America trace their lineage to Thomas Chevers brother of Walter Chevers of Monkstown, through the Cromwellian warrant, authorized on 26 November 1653 for Captain John Whittey to transport the Thomas Chevers family to America.

Monkstown was later purchased by the [[ Archbishop of Armagh]], [[Michael Boyle (the younger)|Michael Boyle]] where his son [[Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington]] enlarged the castle making it one of the finest residences.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Until about 1800, Monkstown was a rural area of open countryside, dotted here and there with large houses owned by the merchants of Dublin. The [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church (Church of Ireland)]] had been built – but was smaller than the present church. Two rivers met in the area now called Pakenham Road. The river known as Micky Briens originated in [[Sallynoggin]]. A lake beside Monkstown Castle had one small island. The coastline was ragged and rocky, with a harbour stretching over 100 yards inland at the mouth of the aforementioned rivers, adjacent to the area now occupied by the West Pier. [[Dún Laoghaire]] (then called Dunleary, and later Kingstown) was then a small group of houses in the area of the Purty Kitchen, and the present area of Dún Laoghaire was an area of rocky outcrops and later, quarries.

Wednesday, November 18, 1807 was South Dublin's night of disasters. In an horrific storm, two sailing ships, the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales were blown on to the rocks, one at Seapoint and the other at Blackrock. About 400 lives in total were lost on that night, many of them washed up on the shore at Monkstown. The disaster was one of the factors which led to the building of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Most of the victims were buried in [[Carrickbrennan Churchyard]].

The building of Dún Laoghaire harbour gave an impetus to the area, and Montpelier Terrace was the first of many terraces built in the area. The coming of the railway in 1837 had a much greater impact. Firstly, it changed the topology of the coast, and secondly, it led to Monkstown becoming a commuter suburb of the city of Dublin. Most of the houses along Monkstown Road and the avenues north of that road were constructed over the next 30 years. The maps of 1870 show this phase completed, but the rest of Monkstown consists of mansions surrounded by extensive gardens. For the following 50 years there was little change. The post-war developments of Castle Park, Richmond, Windsor, etc. and the more recent developments of Brook Court, Monkstown Valley, and Carrickbrennan Lawn mean that there is little opportunity for further development.

The diaries of the Rev John Thomas Hynes (1799–1868), a Catholic bishop who retired to Monkstown in 1861–[[1868 |68]], provide a valuable insight into daily life in Monkstown in that period. Hynes lived at Bloomwood, Monkstown Avenue (later renamed as Carrickbrennan Road), and later moved to Uplands, The Hill, Monkstown. The Hynes Diaries recount such details as the coming of gas lighting, the postal and travel facilities, church affairs, and lots of local gossip. The Hynes diaries are now preserved in Melbourne, but the full text has been made available online<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/research/condon/Hynes/ | title = Diaries | last = Hynes | publisher = Unisa | place = [[Australia |AU]]}}.</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=nb}}

===Documentary references===
* Monkstown is first mentioned in 1450; ''Tenants Cistercians at Carrickbrennan, Villa Monachorum''.
* Carrickbrennan, or "Carigbrenna", features on the 1598 map [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/104/zoom.html "A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles"] by [[Abraham Ortelius]].
* Records of the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1640.
* Forfeiting Proprietors under the Cromwellian Settlement 1657.
* In James Joyce's "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta live in Monkstown.

{{anchor|Castle}}

== Noted buildings ==
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the East.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the east.]]
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the North.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the north.]]
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, Dublin|Friends Burial Ground (Quaker)]] located at Temple Hill just off Monkstown Road.

[[Monkstown Castle, County Dublin|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 beautiful coastline, which displays many historical buildings of the Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian periods. One of the most notable buildings of the Salthill and Monkstown area is a [[Martello Tower]], located at Seapoint beach.

== Sports ==
Monkstown Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1877. It was the first tennis club in Ireland.

[[Monkstown Football Club]] was founded in the village in 1883 before moving to [[Sandymount]] in 1901.

Monkstown (Dublin) Boxing Club was founded in 2004, their gym is situated in the newly built Mounttown Community Centre in Fitzgerald Park, in the Monkstown Farm Area.

Farm Utd Football Club was form in 1935, and uses part of the Monkstown Community Centre as its dressing rooms.

Monkstown also has a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Ireland. Their gym is situated in the Mounttown Industrial Estate.

Monkstown also has a thriving hockey club, [[Monkstown Hockey Club]] based in the Rathdown School.

== Culture ==
Monkstown has a locally known [[puppet]] theatre named [[Lambert Puppet Theatre]], a family-run business. Every year the puppet theatre hosts an international puppet festival. It used to run series on national television, [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]. [[Michael Jackson]] once saw a puppet show in this theatre.

[[Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]], an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish traditional music]]), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does [[BirdWatch Ireland]].

== Education ==
A multi-denominational primary school, Monkstown Educate Together National School (METNS), a fee paying [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]] School, [[CBC Monkstown]] Park, and [http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School] are located in the Monkstown area. A [[Gaelscoil]] is also located in Monkstown, [[Scoil Lorcáin]], teaching all classes through [[Irish language|Irish]].

St. Oliver Plunkett N.S is a school for children with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SLD). This school caters for children from a wide catchment area.

[[C.B.C. Monkstown|Christian Brother's College]] consists of two schools; an Independent preparatory school with over 200 students and a secondary school with more than 500 students. CBC caters for boys from junior infants through sixth year. It is to be demolished and rebuilt in the coming years.<ref>[http://www.cbcmonkstown.ie/ Christian Brother's College] Retrieved on 07-02-08.</ref>

== Transport ==
An [[Aircoach]] service starting in Dalkey links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

==People==
Sir [[William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]] (1800–[[1867 |64]]) lived at 1 Eaton Place, and built several telescopes, including the world's largest telescope in 1845, which remained the world's largest for the rest of the century. Using this telescope he saw and catalogued a large number of galaxies.<ref name= "bdldtrkf">{{Citation | first1 = Tom | last1 = Roche | first2 = Ken | last2 = Finlay | year = 2003 | title = Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey (Along the coast from Booterstown to Killiney)}}.</ref>{{Page needed | date = December 2013}}

Alfred Gresham Jones (1824?–1913) was an Irish architect who designed Merrion Hall on Merrion Street Lower, now the Davenport hotel, in 1862 and designed the villa ''Verona'' in Queen's Park in 1873. He lived at Queen's Park House from 1869-1872, at Clifton Lodge on Seafield Ave 1873-1876, at Villa Carlotta on Queen's Park 1886–[[1888 |88]], after which he emigrated to Australia.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/430 | contribution = Alfred Gresham Jones | title = The Directory of Irish Architects}}.</ref>

[[Richard Pigott]] (1835–[[1889 |89]]) lived at 7 De Vesci Terrace. He was an Irish journalist, best known for selling the Pigott forgeries.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

Sir [[Howard Grubb]] (1844–[[1931 |31]]) was a designer and maker of telescopes. He lived at De Vesci Terrace, and from 1925, at 13 Longford Terrace, which now bears a plaque.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />
*[[David Howell Evans|The Edge]].
*[[Chris DeBurgh]]
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]]
*[[Paul McGuinness]]
*[[Malcolm Arnold]]
*[[Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh]]
*[[Tim Pat Coogan]]
*[[D.J. Carey]]
*[[John O'Shea (humanitarian)]]

== See also ==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School]
*[http://www.metns.ie/ Monkstown Educate Together National School]
*[http://www.monkstownvillage.com/ "Monkstown Village"]
*[http://comhaltas.ie Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]
*[http://www.craobhphiarais.com Cumann na nÓg]
*[http://www.monkstownparish.ie/maps.htm Monkstown Parish Maps]

{{Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown}}
{{Dublin residential areas}}

[[Category:Places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]]

Monkstown Castle

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[[Image:Monkstown Dublin.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown showing to the left [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland)]] and St. Patricks Church (Roman Catholic) to the right]]

'''Monkstown''' ({{Irish place name|Baile na Manach}}), historically known as '''Carrickbrennan''' ({{lang-gle|Carraig Bhraonáin}}), is an area in south [[Dublin]], located in [[Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]] County, [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is on the coast, between [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]] and [[Dún Laoghaire]]. The [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] stations of Seapoint and ''Salthill and Monkstown'' serve the area.

The lands of the Carrickbrennan estate form the greater part of the civil parish of Monkstown.

Monkstown is part of the [[Dáil Éireann]] constituency of [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]].

== History ==
In 1539, King Henry VIII awarded the Monkstown lands to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland. John Travers lived in his Castle at Monkstown from 1557 to his death in 1562 (he is buried in the [[Carrickbrennan Graveyard]]) when the property fell to James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass through his marriage to Mary Travers. In 1580, the Castle was used as a rebellion stronghold, after which it was awarded to Sir [[Henry Wallop]], Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. The lands were later returned to Mary, the widowed Lady Baltinglass, who later married Gerald Alymer. On her death in 1610 the Castle was transferred to the Chevers family through the marriage of Mary Travers's sister Catherine to John Chevers, and the property passed directly to his second son Henry Chevers, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam. Henry and Catherine Chevers lived here with their four children (Walter, Thomas, Patrick, Margaret).{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Upon the death of Henry in 1640, the castle and lands were passed to Walter Cheevers. Walter and family received command to vacate Monkstown in 1653 by the Cromwellian Commissioners, and transplanted to Killyan, [[County Galway]]. In 1660, Walter Chevers was restored to his estate at Monkstown Castle, until his death in 1678. His death occurred on the 20th day of December 1678, and he was buried at Mountoun (Monkstown), two days later on 22nd.<ref>{{Citation | title = Funeral Certificate}}.</ref> The Shivers family of America trace their lineage to Thomas Chevers brother of Walter Chevers of Monkstown, through the Cromwellian warrant, authorized on 26 November 1653 for Captain John Whittey to transport the Thomas Chevers family to America.

Monkstown was later purchased by the [[ Archbishop of Armagh]], [[Michael Boyle (the younger)|Michael Boyle]] where his son [[Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington]] enlarged the castle making it one of the finest residences.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Until about 1800, Monkstown was a rural area of open countryside, dotted here and there with large houses owned by the merchants of Dublin. The [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church (Church of Ireland)]] had been built – but was smaller than the present church. Two rivers met in the area now called Pakenham Road. The river known as Micky Briens originated in [[Sallynoggin]]. A lake beside Monkstown Castle had one small island. The coastline was ragged and rocky, with a harbour stretching over 100 yards inland at the mouth of the aforementioned rivers, adjacent to the area now occupied by the West Pier. [[Dún Laoghaire]] (then called Dunleary, and later Kingstown) was then a small group of houses in the area of the Purty Kitchen, and the present area of Dún Laoghaire was an area of rocky outcrops and later, quarries.

Wednesday, November 18, 1807 was South Dublin's night of disasters. In an horrific storm, two sailing ships, the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales were blown on to the rocks, one at Seapoint and the other at Blackrock. About 400 lives in total were lost on that night, many of them washed up on the shore at Monkstown. The disaster was one of the factors which led to the building of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Most of the victims were buried in [[Carrickbrennan Churchyard]].

The building of Dún Laoghaire harbour gave an impetus to the area, and Montpelier Terrace was the first of many terraces built in the area. The coming of the railway in 1837 had a much greater impact. Firstly, it changed the topology of the coast, and secondly, it led to Monkstown becoming a commuter suburb of the city of Dublin. Most of the houses along Monkstown Road and the avenues north of that road were constructed over the next 30 years. The maps of 1870 show this phase completed, but the rest of Monkstown consists of mansions surrounded by extensive gardens. For the following 50 years there was little change. The post-war developments of Castle Park, Richmond, Windsor, etc. and the more recent developments of Brook Court, Monkstown Valley, and Carrickbrennan Lawn mean that there is little opportunity for further development.

The diaries of the Rev John Thomas Hynes (1799–1868), a Catholic bishop who retired to Monkstown in 1861–[[1868 |68]], provide a valuable insight into daily life in Monkstown in that period. Hynes lived at Bloomwood, Monkstown Avenue (later renamed as Carrickbrennan Road), and later moved to Uplands, The Hill, Monkstown. The Hynes Diaries recount such details as the coming of gas lighting, the postal and travel facilities, church affairs, and lots of local gossip. The Hynes diaries are now preserved in Melbourne, but the full text has been made available online<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/research/condon/Hynes/ | title = Diaries | last = Hynes | publisher = Unisa | place = [[Australia |AU]]}}.</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=nb}}

===Documentary references===
* Monkstown is first mentioned in 1450; ''Tenants Cistercians at Carrickbrennan, Villa Monachorum''.
* Carrickbrennan, or "Carigbrenna", features on the 1598 map [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/104/zoom.html "A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles"] by [[Abraham Ortelius]].
* Records of the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1640.
* Forfeiting Proprietors under the Cromwellian Settlement 1657.
* In James Joyce's "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta live in Monkstown.

{{anchor|Castle}}

== Noted buildings ==
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the East.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the east.]]
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the North.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the north.]]
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, Dublin|Friends Burial Ground (Quaker)]] located at Temple Hill just off Monkstown Road.

[[Monkstown Castle, County Dublin|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 beautiful coastline, which displays many historical buildings of the Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian periods. One of the most notable buildings of the Salthill and Monkstown area is a [[Martello Tower]], located at Seapoint beach.

== Sports ==
Monkstown Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1877. It was the first tennis club in Ireland.

[[Monkstown Football Club]] was founded in the village in 1883 before moving to [[Sandymount]] in 1901.

Monkstown (Dublin) Boxing Club was founded in 2004, their gym is situated in the newly built Mounttown Community Centre in Fitzgerald Park, in the Monkstown Farm Area.

Farm Utd Football Club was form in 1935, and uses part of the Monkstown Community Centre as its dressing rooms.

Monkstown also has a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Ireland. Their gym is situated in the Mounttown Industrial Estate.

Monkstown also has a thriving hockey club, [[Monkstown Hockey Club]] based in the Rathdown School.

== Culture ==
Monkstown has a locally known [[puppet]] theatre named [[Lambert Puppet Theatre]], a family-run business. Every year the puppet theatre hosts an international puppet festival. It used to run series on national television, [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]. [[Michael Jackson]] once saw a puppet show in this theatre.

[[Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]], an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish traditional music]]), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does [[BirdWatch Ireland]].

== Education ==
A multi-denominational primary school, Monkstown Educate Together National School (METNS), a fee paying [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]] School, [[CBC Monkstown]] Park, and [http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School] are located in the Monkstown area. A [[Gaelscoil]] is also located in Monkstown, [[Scoil Lorcáin]], teaching all classes through [[Irish language|Irish]].

St. Oliver Plunkett N.S is a school for children with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SLD). This school caters for children from a wide catchment area.

[[C.B.C. Monkstown|Christian Brother's College]] consists of two schools; an Independent preparatory school with over 200 students and a secondary school with more than 500 students. CBC caters for boys from junior infants through sixth year. It is to be demolished and rebuilt in the coming years.<ref>[http://www.cbcmonkstown.ie/ Christian Brother's College] Retrieved on 07-02-08.</ref>

== Transport ==
An [[Aircoach]] service starting in Dalkey links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

==People==
Sir [[William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]] (1800–1867) lived at 1 Eaton Place, and built several telescopes, including the world's largest telescope in 1845 which remained the world's largest for the rest of the century. Using this telescope he saw and catalogued a large number of galaxies.<ref name="bdldtrkf">Tom Roche and Ken Finlay (2003). "Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey (Along the coast from Booterstown to Killiney)"</ref>

Alfred Gresham Jones (1824?-1913) was an Irish architect who designed Merrion Hall on Merrion Street Lower, now the Davenport hotel, in 1862 and designed the villa ''Verona'' in Queen's Park in 1873. He lived at Queen's Park House from 1869-1872, at Clifton Lodge on Seafield Ave 1873-1876, at Villa Carlotta on Queen's Park 1886-1888, after which he emigrated to Australia.<ref>[http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/430 Alfred Gresham Jones on the Directory of Irish Architects]</ref>

[[Richard Pigott]] (1835-1889) lived at 7 De Vesci Terrace. He was an Irish journalist, best known for selling the Pigott forgeries.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

Sir [[Howard Grubb]] (1844-1931) was a designer and maker of telescopes. He lived at De Vesci Terrace, and from 1925, at 13 Longford Terrace, which now bears a plaque.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

*[[David Howell Evans|The Edge]].
*[[Chris DeBurgh]]
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]]
*[[Paul McGuinness]]
*[[Malcolm Arnold]]
*[[Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh]]
*[[Tim Pat Coogan]]
*[[D.J. Carey]]
*[[John O'Shea (humanitarian)]]

== See also ==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School]
*[http://www.metns.ie/ Monkstown Educate Together National School]
*[http://www.monkstownvillage.com/ "Monkstown Village"]
*[http://comhaltas.ie Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]
*[http://www.craobhphiarais.com Cumann na nÓg]
*[http://www.monkstownparish.ie/maps.htm Monkstown Parish Maps]

{{Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown}}
{{Dublin residential areas}}

[[Category:Places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]]

Monkstown Castle

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[[Image:Monkstown Dublin.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown showing to the left [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland)]] and St. Patricks Church (Roman Catholic) to the right]]

'''Monkstown''' ({{Irish place name|Baile na Manach}}), historically known as '''Carrickbrennan''' ({{lang-gle|Carraig Bhraonáin}}), is an area in south [[Dublin]], located in [[Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]] County, [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. It is on the coast, between [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]] and [[Dún Laoghaire]]. The [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] stations of Seapoint and ''Salthill and Monkstown'' serve the area.

The lands of the Carrickbrennan estate form the greater part of the civil parish of Monkstown.

Monkstown is part of the [[Dáil Éireann]] constituency of [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]].

== History ==
In 1539, King Henry VIII awarded the Monkstown lands to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland. John Travers lived in his Castle at Monkstown from 1557 to his death in 1562 (he is buried in the [[Carrickbrennan Graveyard]]) when the property fell to James Eustace 3rd Viscount Baltinglass through his marriage to Mary Travers. In 1580, the Castle was used as a rebellion stronghold, after which it was awarded to Sir [[Henry Wallop]], Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. The lands were later returned to Mary, the widowed Lady Baltinglass, who later married Gerald Alymer. On her death in 1610 the Castle was transferred to the Chevers family through the marriage of Mary Travers's sister Catherine to John Chevers, and the property passed directly to his second son Henry Chevers, who married Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam. Henry and Catherine Chevers lived here with their four children (Walter, Thomas, Patrick, Margaret).{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Upon the death of Henry in 1640, the castle and lands were passed to Walter Cheevers. Walter and family received command to vacate Monkstown in 1653 by the Cromwellian Commissioners, and transplanted to Killyan, [[County Galway]]. In 1660, Walter Chevers was restored to his estate at Monkstown Castle, until his death in 1678. His death occurred on the 20th day of December 1678, and he was buried at Mountoun (Monkstown), two days later on 22nd.<ref>{{Citation | title = Funeral Certificate.</ref> The Shivers family of America trace their lineage to Thomas Chevers brother of Walter Chevers of Monkstown, through the Cromwellian warrant, authorized on 26 November 1653 for Captain John Whittey to transport the Thomas Chevers family to America.

Monkstown was later purchased by the [[ Archbishop of Armagh]], [[Michael Boyle (the younger)|Michael Boyle]] where his son [[Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington]] enlarged the castle making it one of the finest residences.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

Until about 1800, Monkstown was a rural area of open countryside, dotted here and there with large houses owned by the merchants of Dublin. The [[Monkstown Church, Dublin|Monkstown Church (Church of Ireland)]] had been built – but was smaller than the present church. Two rivers met in the area now called Pakenham Road. The river known as Micky Briens originated in [[Sallynoggin]]. A lake beside Monkstown Castle had one small island. The coastline was ragged and rocky, with a harbour stretching over 100 yards inland at the mouth of the aforementioned rivers, adjacent to the area now occupied by the West Pier. [[Dún Laoghaire]] (then called Dunleary, and later Kingstown) was then a small group of houses in the area of the Purty Kitchen, and the present area of Dún Laoghaire was an area of rocky outcrops and later, quarries.

Wednesday, November 18, 1807 was South Dublin's night of disasters. In an horrific storm, two sailing ships, the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales were blown on to the rocks, one at Seapoint and the other at Blackrock. About 400 lives in total were lost on that night, many of them washed up on the shore at Monkstown. The disaster was one of the factors which led to the building of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Most of the victims were buried in [[Carrickbrennan Churchyard]].

The building of Dún Laoghaire harbour gave an impetus to the area, and Montpelier Terrace was the first of many terraces built in the area. The coming of the railway in 1837 had a much greater impact. Firstly, it changed the topology of the coast, and secondly, it led to Monkstown becoming a commuter suburb of the city of Dublin. Most of the houses along Monkstown Road and the avenues north of that road were constructed over the next 30 years. The maps of 1870 show this phase completed, but the rest of Monkstown consists of mansions surrounded by extensive gardens. For the following 50 years there was little change. The post-war developments of Castle Park, Richmond, Windsor, etc. and the more recent developments of Brook Court, Monkstown Valley, and Carrickbrennan Lawn mean that there is little opportunity for further development.

The diaries of the Rev John Thomas Hynes(1799–1868), a Catholic bishop who retired to Monkstown in 1861–[[1868 |68]], provide a valuable insight into daily life in Monkstown in that period. Hynes lived at Bloomwood, Monkstown Avenue (later renamed as Carrickbrennan Road), and later moved to Uplands, The Hill, Monkstown. The Hynes Diaries recount such details as the coming of gas lighting, the postal and travel facilities, church affairs, and lots of local gossip. The Hynes diaries are now preserved in Melbourne, but the full text has been made available online<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/research/condon/Hynes/ | title = Diaries | last = Hynes | publisher = Unisa | place = [[Australia |AU]]}}.</ref>

==Notes==
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===Documentary references===
* Monkstown is first mentioned in 1450; ''Tenants Cistercians at Carrickbrennan, Villa Monachorum''.
* Carrickbrennan, or "Carigbrenna", features on the 1598 map [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/104/zoom.html "A Modern Depiction of Ireland, One of the British Isles"] by [[Abraham Ortelius]].
* Records of the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1640.
* Forfeiting Proprietors under the Cromwellian Settlement 1657.
* In James Joyce's "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta live in Monkstown.

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== Noted buildings ==
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the East.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the east.]]
[[Image:Monkstown Castle from the North.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monkstown Castle, viewed from the north.]]
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, Dublin|Friends Burial Ground (Quaker)]] located at Temple Hill just off Monkstown Road.

[[Monkstown Castle, County Dublin|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 beautiful coastline, which displays many historical buildings of the Victorian, Georgian and Edwardian periods. One of the most notable buildings of the Salthill and Monkstown area is a [[Martello Tower]], located at Seapoint beach.

== Sports ==
Monkstown Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1877. It was the first tennis club in Ireland.

[[Monkstown Football Club]] was founded in the village in 1883 before moving to [[Sandymount]] in 1901.

Monkstown (Dublin) Boxing Club was founded in 2004, their gym is situated in the newly built Mounttown Community Centre in Fitzgerald Park, in the Monkstown Farm Area.

Farm Utd Football Club was form in 1935, and uses part of the Monkstown Community Centre as its dressing rooms.

Monkstown also has a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Ireland. Their gym is situated in the Mounttown Industrial Estate.

Monkstown also has a thriving hockey club, [[Monkstown Hockey Club]] based in the Rathdown School.

== Culture ==
Monkstown has a locally known [[puppet]] theatre named [[Lambert Puppet Theatre]], a family-run business. Every year the puppet theatre hosts an international puppet festival. It used to run series on national television, [[Radio Telefís Éireann|RTÉ]]. [[Michael Jackson]] once saw a puppet show in this theatre.

[[Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]], an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish traditional music]]), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does [[BirdWatch Ireland]].

== Education ==
A multi-denominational primary school, Monkstown Educate Together National School (METNS), a fee paying [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]] School, [[CBC Monkstown]] Park, and [http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School] are located in the Monkstown area. A [[Gaelscoil]] is also located in Monkstown, [[Scoil Lorcáin]], teaching all classes through [[Irish language|Irish]].

St. Oliver Plunkett N.S is a school for children with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SLD). This school caters for children from a wide catchment area.

[[C.B.C. Monkstown|Christian Brother's College]] consists of two schools; an Independent preparatory school with over 200 students and a secondary school with more than 500 students. CBC caters for boys from junior infants through sixth year. It is to be demolished and rebuilt in the coming years.<ref>[http://www.cbcmonkstown.ie/ Christian Brother's College] Retrieved on 07-02-08.</ref>

== Transport ==
An [[Aircoach]] service starting in Dalkey links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

==People==
Sir [[William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]] (1800–1867) lived at 1 Eaton Place, and built several telescopes, including the world's largest telescope in 1845 which remained the world's largest for the rest of the century. Using this telescope he saw and catalogued a large number of galaxies.<ref name="bdldtrkf">Tom Roche and Ken Finlay (2003). "Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey (Along the coast from Booterstown to Killiney)"</ref>

Alfred Gresham Jones (1824?-1913) was an Irish architect who designed Merrion Hall on Merrion Street Lower, now the Davenport hotel, in 1862 and designed the villa ''Verona'' in Queen's Park in 1873. He lived at Queen's Park House from 1869-1872, at Clifton Lodge on Seafield Ave 1873-1876, at Villa Carlotta on Queen's Park 1886-1888, after which he emigrated to Australia.<ref>[http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/430 Alfred Gresham Jones on the Directory of Irish Architects]</ref>

[[Richard Pigott]] (1835-1889) lived at 7 De Vesci Terrace. He was an Irish journalist, best known for selling the Pigott forgeries.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

Sir [[Howard Grubb]] (1844-1931) was a designer and maker of telescopes. He lived at De Vesci Terrace, and from 1925, at 13 Longford Terrace, which now bears a plaque.<ref name="bdldtrkf" />

*[[David Howell Evans|The Edge]].
*[[Chris DeBurgh]]
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]]
*[[Paul McGuinness]]
*[[Malcolm Arnold]]
*[[Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh]]
*[[Tim Pat Coogan]]
*[[D.J. Carey]]
*[[John O'Shea (humanitarian)]]

== See also ==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.holyfamilyns.scoilnet.ie Holy Family National School]
*[http://www.metns.ie/ Monkstown Educate Together National School]
*[http://www.monkstownvillage.com/ "Monkstown Village"]
*[http://comhaltas.ie Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann]
*[http://www.craobhphiarais.com Cumann na nÓg]
*[http://www.monkstownparish.ie/maps.htm Monkstown Parish Maps]

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