Bayside, Dublin

Bayside is located beside the sea, lying inshore of North Bull Island and Dublin Bay, and about 10 km north-east of the city centre. Built in the late 1960s and 1970s, it is situated between Kilbarrack Road in Kilbarrack, from which it was formed and Baldoyle, and lies near Sutton.

Bayside is accessed from the main coastal road from the city centre to Howth, and from Kilbarrack Road. It is easily accessible from Dublin city using the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) suburban rail system, having its own station, which opened on 11 June 1973.[2] It can also be reached by Dublin Bus routes 17A, H2 and H3, and route 105. It is also connected by a seafront cycleway to Sutton and to Fairview (with works ongoing to connect the cycleway to Sandymount).

The area lies within the civil parish of Kilbarrack and is made up of the townlands of Kilbarrack Upper and Kilbarrack Lower.[3][4][5]

Established under Dublin Corporation in 1967, the area was later allocated to Fingal when County Dublin was split into three administrative areas.

Bayside was formerly (1937–1977 and 1981–2016) part of the Dublin North-East constituency. In 2016 it became part of the Dublin Bay North constituency. It is located within the electoral division known as "Sutton".

Kilbarrack's historic graveyard, through which part of Bayside can be reached, and chapel

Bayside was a planned development in the later 1960s, on part of the lands of the large old district of Kilbarrack, whose largest settlement lay near what is now the centre of the new area. Title deeds for property in the area still show Kilbarrack. Kilbarrack's historic church and graveyard, formerly The Chapel of Mone, dating from the 13th century and once the mariners' church for Dublin, lie about two thirds of the way along Bayside's seafront towards Howth.

In 2017, celebrations, organised by the Bayside Community Association, were held for the suburb's fiftieth year.[1]

Built by Wates Group in the late 1960s and 1970s, Bayside falls within the postal district Dublin 13. It comprises the housing developments of Sarto, Alden, Verbena, Montini, Roncalli, Sutton Park and associated roads including the Bayside Boulevards. All of these roads are interconnected by roads and pedestrian lanes in an "island" development between the railway line and the coast road, with connection to outside roads only at two locations on Kilbarrack Road and two on the coast road (one for the original Bayside, one for Sutton Park). Most properties within the development are two-storey terraced or semi-detached houses of 2-4 bedrooms, with some "maisonettes" (three-storey buildings with a two-bedroom house built over a garden apartment), and a small number of later-added apartments.

Bayside train station was built on the line between Howth and the city centre in the early seventies. A decade later this line would become the first section of the Dublin Area Rapid Transport (DART) development.

Bayside is built up around a central shopping and civic area. Plans to build a multi-storey apartment and retail complex at the location of the current shopping centre car-park were resisted by local residents from 2007 to 2011, but were, after multiple modifications, approved by planning authorities. By October 2017 the centre had been modernised, including the addition of a building for Aldi and a medical practice and gym; at the same time, the squash courts and an old community centre were demolished. There is a modern Roman Catholic parish church, the Church of the Resurrection,[6] within this civic area.

The area has a chipper known as 'Munchies' which has been there for decades and a pub called the 'Bayside Inn'.[7] There is a Maxol service station on the coast road nearby.

There is a park officially called "Bayside Park" but colloquially referred to as the Lamb Chop,[1] a large green in Sutton Park, and a tunnel near the DART station provides immediate access to Seagrange Park in Baldoyle.

There is one primary school, Scoil Mhuire agus Iosef,[8] and the district is serviced by a number of post-primary schools in nearby areas.

Bayside is home to the Third Day Chorale multi-denominational musical group, operating since 1975. Under the musical directorship of Ruaidhrí Ó Dálaigh the group meets every Wednesday night between 7:45 and 10:00 to sing a wide range of sacred and secular choral music.

• Alex Barclay, crime fiction writer and former journalist[9]
• Martin Fay of The Chieftains was a resident in Bayside
• Pat Hooper, Olympian[10]
• Ronan Keating of Boyzone is a former resident of Bayside.[11]
• Fergal O'Brien, professional snooker player, is a former resident[12]
• Averil Power, former Fianna Fáil Senator[13]
• Steve Wickham, of The Waterboys[14]

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