Dunluce Road

Dunluce Road, off the Howth Road, at the junction with Castle Avenue, was built in the 1930s on the lands to the south of Furry Park House.¹

The builder was Joseph McGonagle, who also built houses on Mount Prospect Avenue² and Griffith Avenue.³

In 1940 McGonagle was sued by one of the purchasers of the houses, but the case was settled when the owner withdrew his allegations.⁴

The name comes from Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, possibly by way of association with ‘Castle Avenue’. The same builder built the houses on nearby Dunseverick Road,⁵ also named for a castle in Antrim, only a few miles away from Dunluce; perhaps McGonagle had Antrim connections?

1. ‘Plans for building works in Dublin’, Irish Times, 10 December 1936, p. 3
2. Irish Builder, 6 May 1933, p. 385.
3. Irish Independent, 15 January 1941, p. 10.
4. ‘Allegations withdrawn’, Evening Herald, 25 April 1940, p. 3.
5. Ibid., 23 October 1948, p. 1.