Walks in Clontarf

Clontarf is a beautiful suburb of Dublin, only three miles from Dublin city centre.

The name, means the Pasture of the Bull, may have been inspired by the roar of the sea as it swept in across the bay. This would have been before the sea was tamed by the building of the sea walls.

Clontarf gives its name to a famous battle fought almost 1000 years ago in the year 1014. Brian Boru led an army from the west of Ireland which defeated the Norsemen. A book about Clontarf history, entitled The Meadow of the Bull, has been written by Denis McIntyre, a local historian.

Clontarf has been home to a number of famous people. Bram Stoker was born here and baptised in the old church in Castle Avenue. His book Dracula may well be the most filmed book ever. Another native of Clontarf is Film Director Neil Jordan. Jordan filmed his version of Anna Rice's novel, Interview with the Vampire. From late 1930s till the middle of the 1950s, ErwinSchrodinger set up home in Kincora Road. Schrodinger was one of the great intellects of the twentieth Century, and in 1933 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Paul Dirac of Cambridge.

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