placenamesRathgar
Ráth Garbh
A school founded in the city centre established a new home in Rathgar a century later.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Garbh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathgar · English · main form
Place & story
A new campus and a combined school
The High School was founded in 1870 by the governors of the Erasmus Smith schools. Its own account records the move from Harcourt Street to a twenty-three-acre site on Zion Road in 1971. Incorporation of the Diocesan Secondary School for Girls, founded in 1849, made it fully co-educational in 1974. A major building programme was completed in 2001. These changes connect the Rathgar campus with two older strands of Dublin’s educational history. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Civil parish
- Rathfarnham
- Coordinates
- 53.29432, -6.28991 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 1.24 km²
- Logainm ID
- 55992 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathgar. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Background: The High School, Dublin · The High School, Zion Road, Dublin
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.