Charlemont Road

Charlemont Road runs north east from the Howth Road to the Malahide road, in Clontarf.

Colm Lennon¹ identifies Charlemont Road (north and south) and Marino Avenue as different roadways but, as far as I can see, Charlemont Road as shown on the 1907 OS map,² follows the line of Marino Avenue as it appears on the 1837³ and 1897⁴ editions.

The present Marino Avenue is a laneway that runs at the back of the houses on Charlemont Road.

In any case, ‘Charlemont Road’, as it now exists, was there by 1900, if not before, when it was referenced in an advertisement in the Irish Times.⁵

In 1904 the Corporation approved plans for new houses on the street for Mr P. Byrne.⁶

The name itself derives from James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont,⁷ who built the nearby Casino, in the grounds of Marino House.

1. Colm Lennon, Clontarf (Irish Historic Towns Atlas: Dublin Suburbs, No. 1) (Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2023).
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2. Ordnance Survey Six-inch map, County Dublin, 1907, sheet 18.  ↩︎
3. Ordnance Survey Six-inch map, County Dublin, 1837, sheet 18.  ↩︎
4. Ordnance Survey Six-inch map, County Dublin, 1897, sheet 18 ↩︎
5. Irish Times, 30 March 1901, p. 10. ↩︎
6. Reports 1904/155. ↩︎
7. James Kelly, ‘Caulfeild, James’, in Dictionary of Irish Biography (https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.001560.v1) (accessed 8 March 2025). ↩︎