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The Edwardian buildings of The Iveagh Trust, Bull Alley Street.. The Iveagh Trust / ˈ aɪ v iː / is a provider of affordable housing in and around Dublin in Ireland. It was initially a component of the Guinness Trust, founded in 1890 by the then Edward Cecil Guinness, great-grandson of the founder of the Guinness Brewery, to help homeless people in Dublin and London.
South Dublin County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Átha Cliath Theas [1]) is the local authority of the county of South Dublin, Ireland. It is one of three local authorities created by the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993 to succeed the former Dublin County Council before its abolition on 1 January 1994 and one of four councils in County ...
By the early 1950s, McInerney had entered the Dublin market and was building high volume suburban homes on green field sites including 190 houses for Dublin Corporation in Ballyfermot and 340 houses in Milltown. By the mid-1950s, it had expanded into the Greater London market and was soon constructing local authority housing across the South of ...
South Dublin has an area of 222.74 square kilometres (86 sq mi), making it the second-largest of the four local government areas in Dublin. It is bounded by Dublin City (15 km, 9.3 mi to the northeast), the River Liffey (separating it from Fingal to the north), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (to the east), County Kildare (to the west) and its hills adjoin the mountains of County Wicklow to the south.
The Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company (DADC) was founded in June 1876 [1] in response to the shortage of suitable housing for the working class in Dublin at affordable rents. It specifically aimed to build housing for those in full-time employment in artisan occupations and other trades.
Until the late 1940s, Glenageary, like much of the south County Dublin, consisted mostly of large manor estates - each comprising a large house, some woodland and cultivated or landscaped fields. Since then it has been extensively redeveloped. Most of the original manors have been demolished and low-density housing developments built.
Knocklyon (Irish: Cnoc Lín) [2] [3] is a suburb of the city of Dublin, located in South Dublin, Ireland.Unlike many Dublin suburbs, Knocklyon was not developed around a village; rather it largely consists of modern housing, with a number of old cottages and farmhouses along Knocklyon Road attesting to the area's rural past.
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