Rathdown House is a residence located in a gorgeous typical dubliner house situated in a west-north neighborhood of Dublin, very quiet and characteristic. Just beside the house (just a few minutes on foot) there is a LUAS Stop (Phibsborough - Dublin 7) which takes just 20 minutes to bring you to City Centre (Trinity College). Alternatively, you can move around by walking in 30-40 minutes. Just in front of the house there is also a Dublinbikes station which allow you to rent a bicycle for 3 days or more (see Dublinbikes site to find out more information about it). In the house living many people, mostly are students (from Brazil especially), so you should expect to sharing all commun areas with them: there is a very spacious kitchen, a living-room with tv, a small garden where is allow smoking, 2 bath-rooms (but only in one of this there is a shower). The bed-rooms (there are two ones on floor ground to students) are arranged with four simple bunk-beds, but in any case there is space enough to collocate all your things.
I spent there a very enjoyable time, so I feel to suggest this accomodation to everybody looking for a useful and comfortable location near the city.