Blackrock

Blackrock (An Charraig Dhubh in Irish) is a suburb of the city of Dublin, in County Dublin, Ireland. It is situated 3 km north of Dún Laoghaire. Blackrock has service industries and computer programming industries.

There are many places of historical significance within the area, including the site of the assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, and the site Linden Convalescent Home where Eamon de Valera died. The building where Eamon De Valera died, Talbot Lodge, was illegally demolished in the early 1990s and replace with a housing estate. The childhood home of Lord Edward Fitzgerald Frescati House was also here until 1983, when it was demolished as part of the completion of Roches Stores' new shopping centre. A college of education; several secondary schools, such as Rosemount College (run by Opus Dei), Sion Hill Dominican College, St. Andrew's College and Blackrock College; and a private clinic, Blackrock Clinic. Newpark Music School, incorporating the acclaimed Newpark Jazz School, is also located here.

Marian Park is a small estate behind Newpark school and running parallel to Harry Acre's farm. This estate was used as a location for the 1995 indie film "How to cheat at the leaving certificate" starring local residents Kenneth Monaghan and Peter Byrne.

Carysfort College was a large college of education located in the area until its closure in 1988. Some of the site was sold to University College, Dublin in 1991 and is now operated as the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.

Blackrock has a station on the Dublin Area Rapid Transit line, or DART. It is a 15 minute ride to city centre from Blackrock Station. Dublin Bus also serves the area with multiple bus routes. This runs on the track that was built in 1834 as the Dublin-Kingstown railway. That railway revived Blackrock which had been in decline, but also drastically affected its coastline. There was formerly a tramway running through Blackrock to a terminus which is now the Europa Mazda Centre/Smart dealership, though there are plans to demolish it and replace it with a residential development.

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