Rathmines
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Rathmines (/ˈræθˌmaɪnz/; Irish: Ráth Maonais, meaning "ringfort of Maonas") is an affluent[1] inner suburb[2] on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east, and Harold's Cross to the west. It is situated in the city's D06 postal district.
Rathmines
Ráth Maonais | |
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Inner suburb | |
Coordinates: 53.3225°N 6.2657°W / 53.3225; -6.2657 | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Leinster |
County | County Dublin |
Local authority | Dublin City Council |
Dáil constituency | Dublin Bay South |
European Parliament | Dublin |
Elevation | 31 m (102 ft) |
Rathmines is a commercial and social hub and was well known across Ireland as "Flatland"—an area where subdivided large Georgian and Victorian houses provided rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third-level students from outside the city from the 1930s.[3] However, in more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many historic houses formerly divided into often tiny flats and bedsits have in a process of gentrifying been re-amalgamated into single-family homes.[4] Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin Belgravia" in the 19th Century.[5]