Talk by Des Burke-Kennedy on Tuesday 6th May

11 April 2025 | author

Sorrento Park and Hawk Cliff below Vico Road played a special part in safeguarding Neutral Ireland in WW2 in 1939/45. Read More

Robert Warren and Queenstown by John Martin

8 February 2024 | author

Killiney Historical Society is delighted to present this video recording of the first lecture of 2024 which was delivered by local historian John Martin on 6th February in Killiney. John’s talk concentrates on the highly ambitious plans to develop a ‘new town’ of over 180 dwellings on Killiney Hill in 1840. John has unearthed new insights into this fascinating topic and this is a very interesting and informative talk.Read More

War of Independence propaganda in Killiney 1920

28 February 2022 | author

The most notorious 1920 attempt by the British authorities to use the visual media of photography and film to sway British public opinion against the Irish Republican cause came in the guise of the so-called Battle of Tralee.Read More

Mount Mapas

27 January 2022 | author

Mount Mapas was the first house to be built on Victoria Road and the southern end of the Vico Road. Read More

Queenstown

28 December 2020 | author

‘South View of Queenstown from Killiney Bay proposed to be built on the Obelisk Hill of Killiney near Kingstown in the County Dublin’ by Joseph Patrick Haverty 1840. Courtesy National … Read More

Mount Eagle

20 November 2020 | author

In 1838 Symes exhibited plans of ‘a villa, now erecting at Brighton Cliff, at the south side of Killiney Hill, for Robert Warren Esq.’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy.Read More