Anne's Park and reaches the sea at the Raheny end of the district, its mouth marking the civil parish boundary between Clontarf and Raheny. The Wad River, another of Dublin's secondary watercourses, joins the Tolka estuary right at the city end of Clontarf's coastline, while the Naniken River runs through St. The southern boundary of Clontarf lies on one side of the estuary of one of Dublin's three main rivers, the River Tolka. It is bounded to the west and south by Fairview Park and the suburb of Marino, to the north by the suburbs of Killester and Artane and to the northeast by Saint Anne's Park and the suburb of Raheny. Geography Ĭlontarf is on the northern side of Dublin city, northeast of the city centre, along the coast. The name Cluain Tarbh means "meadow of the bull", cluain being "meadow" and tarbh meaning "bull" in Irish. This battle, which extended over a wide area, from modern Ballybough to Kilbarrack, at least, is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars. Clontarf is in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council.Ĭlontarf was a core site of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, defeated the Vikings of Dublin and their allies, the Irish of Leinster.
It adjoins Fairview, Marino, Killester and Raheny. Clontarf has a range of retail businesses in several locations, mainly centred on Vernon Avenue. Historically, there were two centres of population, one on the coast towards the city, and the fishing village of Clontarf Sheds, further north on the coast at what is now Vernon Avenue. Clontarf ( Irish: Cluain Tarbh, meaning 'The Meadow of the Bull') is an affluent coastal suburb on the Northside of Dublin in the city's Dublin 3 postal district.
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