# Bayside, Dublin

Bayside (Irish: Cois Bá) is a small residential suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, purpose-built from 1967 on lands previously part of Kilbarrack. It has a planned central service area with retail facilities and lies inshore of Bull Island. It absorbed a neighbouring development, Sutton Park, also on Kilbarrack lands adjacent to Baldoyle. Established under Dublin Corporation, it was later moved to the jurisdiction of Fingal County Council.

## Location

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.
The area lies within the civil parish of Kilbarrack and is made up of the townlands of Kilbarrack Upper and Kilbarrack Lower.
Bayside falls within the postal district of Dublin 13.

## History

Bayside was a planned development, built in the mid-20th century, 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.
Built by Wates Group in the late 1960s and 1970s, Bayside comprises the housing developments of Sutton Park, Sarto, Alden, Verbena, Montini, Roncalli and associated roads including the Bayside Boulevards.
In 2017, celebrations, organised by the Bayside Community Association, were held for the suburb's fiftieth year.

## Governance and representation

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", and is in the local electoral area of "Howth–Malahide".

## Transport

Bayside is accessed from the main coastal road from the city centre to Howth, and from Kilbarrack Road. It is accessible from Dublin city via the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) suburban rail system. It has its own station, Bayside railway station, which opened in June 1973. Built as a stop on the line between Howth and the city centre in the early 1970s, this station later became a stop on the first section of the DART.
The area is served by Dublin Bus routes N6, H2 and H3, and route 6. It is also connected by a seafront cycleway to Sutton and to Fairview.

## Amenities

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, within this civic area.
The area has a chipper and a pub. 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, a large green in Sutton Park, and a tunnel near the DART station provides immediate access to Seagrange Park in Baldoyle.

## Education

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

## People

* Alex Barclay, crime fiction writer and former journalist
* Martin Fay of The Chieftains was a resident in Bayside
* Pat Hooper, Olympian
* Ronan Keating of Boyzone is a former resident of Bayside.
* Becky Lynch, professional wrestler, former resident
* Fergal O'Brien, professional snooker player, is a former resident
* Averil Power, former Fianna Fáil Senator
* Steve Wickham, of The Waterboys

## References and footnotes

* ↑ "Cois Bá / Bayside". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
* 1 2 3 "Bayside celebrates its 50th anniversary". Dublin People. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
* ↑ "Kilbarrack Upper Townland, Co. Dublin". townlands.ie. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
* ↑ "Kilbarrack Lower Townland, Co. Dublin". townlands.ie. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
* ↑ "Townlands in Kilbarrack". townlands.ie. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
* 1 2 3 "25 things you'll remember if you grew up in Bayside". Dublin People. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
* ↑ McManus, Ruth (2011), Suburban and urban housing in the twentieth century (PDF), pp. 275, 276 – via St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, the 800-house Wates-built estate at Bayside, in Sutton in Dublin, beginning in 1972, was the first modern suburban housing estate to include two-bedroom houses
* 1 2 "The New Constituencies – Dublin Bay North". tallyrifficmaps.com. 2 November 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2025. There are four Electoral Areas in Dublin Bay North [..] Howth-Malahide (part), in the north-east. Also contains Sutton, Bayside and Baldoyle
* ↑ "Bayside station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 31 August 2007.
* ↑ Irish Stations Index (PDF), p. 9, retrieved 4 March 2025 – via Irish Railway Record Society
* ↑ "Parish Contacts | Bayside Parish". baysideparish.ie.
* ↑ "Home". baysidejunior.ie.
* ↑ "Out of the dark". Irish Times. 30 July 2005. Retrieved 4 March 2025. Originally from Bayside on Dublin's northside
* ↑ "Death Notice of Pat Hooper". rte.ie. 12 October 2020.
* ↑ Keating, Ronan (31 October 2011). Life is a Rollercoaster. ISBN 9781446491522.
* ↑ Quin, Rebecca (2024). Becky Lynch: The Man – Not Your Average Average Girl (1st UK / Ireland ed.). London: Sphere (Little Brown). pp. 15–18, 22. ISBN 9781408732359.
* ↑ Branigan, Peter (15 April 2021). "Irish snooker starting on long road back to glory days".
* ↑ Minihan, Mary (November 2021). "Fianna Fáil are losing – Young, female and from Dublin". Irish Times. Retrieved 4 March 2025. the Senator from Bayside [Power] featured prominently on the Yes side in the recent same-sex marriage referendum
* ↑ Nolan, Larissa (5 January 2020). "Football gave me the team spirit I had with my band". The Sunday Times. I lived in Bayside in Dublin and played in the schoolboys' league for Baldoyle United