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Clontarf is a coastal suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. It is most famous for giving the name to the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 during which Brian Boru, High King of Ireland defeated the Viking invaders. This battle, which extended to districts over several miles, is seen as marking an end to the Irish-Viking Wars. Clontarf lacks a single "village centre" but has a range of commercial facilities in several locations, mainly centred around Vernon Avenue. Clontarf adjoins Fairview, Marino, Killester, Artane and Raheny, and is in the postal district Dublin 3. Clontarf's sea front is served by the No. 130 Dublin Bus route, and the inland parts can be reached from buses on the Howth Road, such as the 29A, 31 series and 32 series. The area's historic railway station, on the Howth Road, closed many years ago, but a new railway station, Clontarf Road railway station, a stop on the Dublin Area Rapid Transit system, is located between Clontarf and Fairview. Clontarf lies on one side of the estuary of one of Dublin's three main rivers, the River Tolka, and the Naniken River reaches the sea at the Raheny end of the district, its mouth marking a civil parish boundary. One of Dublin's largest parks, St Anne's Park, lies between Clontarf and Raheny. The Bull Island, also shared with Raheny, is connected to Clontarf by an historic wooden bridge. While most of the island is city property, the (North) Bull Wall and breakwater, related road and path, and Bull (Wooden) Bridge belong to the Dublin Port Company, and are closed for a day each year to assert this. At the end of the breakwater is a statue of Our Lady, Star of the Sea (Realt na Mara), to watch over mariners and dockworkers. When Erwin Schrödinger moved to Dublin, he lived in Clontarf, on Kincora Road. Other famous people from the area include Brian O'Driscoll, the current Ireland rugby captain, film director Neil Jordan (although he was born in Rosses Point, Co, Sligo), mezzo-soprano Bernadette Greevy, academic Declan Kiberd, actor, singer and television presenter Bryan Smyth, Gerry Ryan, RTE 2fm DJ, Joe Duffy, also of RTÉ. Actress and comedienne Maureen Potter lived in Fairview and Clontarf unitl her death in 2004. Prionnsias O'Duinn Conductor for RTE Concert Orcastra and National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador.
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| Source | Clontarf July 2009 - photographed by Infomatique |
| Author | William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland |
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