1. Character

2. Geography

3. History
    The Carrickminders  Development  Retail park  2015 blaze 

4. Transport

5. Cultural references

6. See also

7. References

Carrickmines ({{Irish place name|Carraig Mhaighin|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.

Character

Traditionally a rural area, and today a semi-rural suburban region, Carrickmines is now divided northeast/southwest by the M50 motorway, with, to the northeast, more established residential areas, and to the southwest, including along Glenamuck Road, new retail parks, office buildings, housing schemes and apartments.{{fact|date=January 2019}}

Geography

Carrickmines developed as a settlement in the more than 6 km long valley of the same name, which contains the modest Carrickmines River and its tributaries. The Ballyogan, Glenamuck and Golf Streams all merge in the vicinity. Downstream at Brennanstown the river merges with St. Bride's Stream, from Foxrock, to form the Loughlinstown River, which in turn meets the Bride's Glen Stream to form the Shanganagh River, which reaches the sea at Killiney Strand.

Leopardstown lies to the northwest, Foxrock to the north, Cabinteely to the northeast and Brennanstown to the east, Ballyogan to the west, Glenamuck to the south, and Laughanstown to the southeast.

History

The Carrickminders

During the construction of the M50 motorway, Carrickmines gained national notoriety when anti-roads protesters calling themselves The Carrickminders set up camp in the area and delayed the completion of the M50 for two years with legal challenges being taken by Vincent Salafia. The objectors claimed that the underground remains of Carrickmines Castle, an Anglo-Norman fort built in the 12th century on the edge of the Pale, was of national importance. Today, much of the uncovered remains are preserved in tunnels and other structures scattered around the interchange. Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council claimed the action greatly increased the cost of the project, which was eventually completed in August 2005.

Development

Junction 15 of the M50 lies at the centre of Carrickmines. The retail park and developments on Glenamuck Road have converted the semi-rural area into a mix of suburban complex, with shops, offices, apartment blocks and housing estates, and a patchwork of remaining farmland.{{fact|date=January 2019}}

Retail park

The retail park at Carrickmines, The Park Carrickmines, contains a mixture of retail and office space. It was sold for €100m in 2006,^[1] and reportedly garnered the highest retail park rents in Ireland in 2014.^[2] In 2015 it was reported as the best performing Irish retail park by The Sunday Times.^[3]

2015 blaze

On 10 October 2015, a large fire swept through a halting site on Glenamuck Road.^[4]

Transport

The LUAS Green Line Carrickmines Park and Ride stop lies in the north-east of the settlement. It is also served by the regular Dublin Bus service which passes through Carrickmines on its route from Dún Laoghaire to Kilternan.^[5]

Carrickmines railway station originally lay on the Dublin and South Eastern Railway's Harcourt Street branch line. It opened on 10 July 1854, but finally closed on 1 January 1959.^[6]

Cultural references

Carrickmines is mentioned in James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in which it is described as an area dominated by fields.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

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