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Dun-laoghaire History
Dun Laoghaire is a large town about 11km southeast of Dublin, on the southern curve of Dublin Bay.
The origin of Dun Laoghaire dates back to the 5th century. The name Dún Laoghaire is derived from its founder, King Laoghaire, High Sovereign of Ireland. In ancient Irish, the word 'Dún' stands for 'fort'. King Laoghaire had chosen the site to be a naval base from which he would carry out invasions on Britain and France.
In 1821, when King George VI visited Dun Laoghaire, the town was officially renamed Kingstown in his honor. However the name of the town was converted back to its original ancient Irish name by the declaration of the town council in 1921, a year before Irish independence
Dún Laoghaire is the only town in Ireland that possesses its own Vocational Education Committee (a constitutional local education body that governs the secondary education and most adult education in the state). Dún Laoghaire falls in the Greater Dublin Area.
During the Second World War, Dun Laoghaire suffered a blow from a stray German bomb. The bomb landed near the People’s park at Rosmeen Gardens. However the amount of damage done by the bomb was limited to buildings only.
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Dun-laoghaire History
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