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Dollymount

Cnocán Doirinne

Dollymount’s twentieth-century church and later coastal works record two different forms of building for the local community.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Bull Wall wooden bridge, Dollymount, County Dublin.
Illustration, Bull Wall wooden bridge, Dollymount, County Dublin
Recorded locationDollymount53.36911° N · 6.16689° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

cnocánhillock

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Cnocán Doirinne · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Dollymount · English · main form

Place & story

Saint Gabriel’s church

Saint Gabriel’s opened in 1956 on land donated by the Sisters of Charity. It became a parish church in 1966. The parish’s own history records the renovation of its altar area for the church’s golden jubilee in 2006. [2]

A window of three scenes

A stained-glass window made by the Harry Clarke Studios depicts Gabriel with Mary at the Annunciation, Daniel in the lions’ den and Zechariah praying in the Temple. Parish writer Gareth Byrne identifies these three biblical scenes in his account of the window. [3]

Building along the shore

Roughan & O’Donovan designed the combined promenade, cycleway and flood protection scheme linking the Wooden Bridge with the North Bull Island causeway. The design placed the route alongside James Larkin Road and combined sea-wall repairs with barriers, gates, an earth bund and 582 metres of new concrete defence wall. The designers identify protection of the South Bull lagoon as a principal constraint. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Dublin
Barony
Coolock
Civil parish
Clontarf
Coordinates
53.36911, -6.16689 (approximate)
Logainm ID
127033 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Dollymount. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Saint Gabriel’s, Dollymount: parish history · Saint Gabriel’s Parish, Dollymount
  3. Under the Watchful Care of Saint Gabriel · Fr Gareth Byrne, Saint Gabriel’s Parish
  4. Dollymount promenade and flood protection · Roughan & O’Donovan
  5. Bull Wall wooden bridge, Dollymount, County Dublin illustration: based on a Bull Wall Bridge, North Bull Wall,... by Peter Gerken. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.