# neighbourhood guide
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Your guide to Clontarf: Sea air and space in the Northside village that lost an island
What you need to know about the childhood home of Bram Stoker.
Your guide to Sandymount: Lush and leafy village with a little-known Beatles connection
Not too shabby for a former brickworks.
Your guide to Carrigaline: Fast-growing town that kept its village feel (and saved the jelly star biscuit)
Between the country and the city.
Your guide to Whitehall and Beaumont: Leafy tree-lined avenues in the place that got its name from Guinness
Two mature and settled neighbourhoods with loads of green space.
Your guide to Howth: Desirable slice of the Northside with a lively village (and very discerning seagulls)
Plus perhaps the best Ulysses connection of all.
Your guide to Palmerstown: Vibrant community in this pilgrim's village on the Liffey
Just watch out for the traffic…
Your guide to Renmore: Coastal air and community in the former home of Michael D
From the barracks to the beach.
Your guide to Navan: A Royal good time in the childhood home of James Bond
And a town whose name you can read in both directions.
Your guide to Gorey: Historic market town with a lively centre an hour from Dublin
Where U2 once upset the local canoe club.
Your guide to Ashtown: Spacious garden suburb on the park with a hidden castle
Mid-century homes between the park and the canal.
Your guide to Terenure: Victorian grandeur around a proper old village centre
And birthplace of James Joyce’s ma.
Your guide to Blackpool, Cork: Old factory neighbourhood with a new generation moving in
The home of Christy Ring and Jack Lynch on the northside of Cork city.
People are paying an extra €61,000 to live near a Luas stop
Buyers are now paying an average of €446,000 for a property close to a Luas stop in Dublin.
Your guide to Walkinstown: Mid-century estates built around pockets of green
And one very stubborn resident.
Your guide to Grangegorman: Historic area centred on an impressive new campus
An old area that is coming to life (again).
Your guide to Leopardstown: Quiet southside suburb with a colourful ex-resident
Oh, and a few horses too.
Your guide to Kilmainham: Art, prison cells and a gem of a pub in this old neighbourhood
Popular with everyone from the Vikings to the British.
Your guide to Carrickmines: Growing suburb between the city and the mountains
And home to Ireland’s second IKEA!
Your guide to Milltown: Southside suburb with a history of railways and a rhino in the river
Once a hub of industry, these days Milltown is better known for its many, many apartments.
