Duke of Dorset Monument
A more fitting tribute might have been to have quoted from the hundred and twelve line poem which Byron wrote to the Duke when he was the poet’s fag at Harrow.
Places of Interest
Queenstown
Article from The Irish Penny Journal 5th June 1841 Our metropolitan readers, at least, and many others besides, are aware of the magnificent but not easily to be realised project, … Read more
The Railway
When the line opened on 10th July 1854 there were two stations serving the area; Ballybrack station off the end of the military road; and Obelisk Hill perched half way up a cliff in Mr. Warren’s Deerpark.