:for the village in northern ireland, see ringsend, coleraine; and for the hamlet in the english county of cambridgeshire, see ring's end thumb|right|360px|st. patrick's church in ringsend  ringsend () is a southside inner suburb of dublin, ireland. it is located on the south bank of the river liffey and east of the river dodder, about two kilometres east of the city centre. it is the southern terminus of the east link toll bridge. areas included in ringsend are the south side of the dublin docklands, and at the west end is the area of south lotts and part of the grand canal dock area. neighbouring areas include irishtown, sandymount and the beggars bush part of ballsbridge to the south, and the city centre to the west. at 207.8 metres and 207.48 metres, the poolbeg generating station chimneys in ringsend are the tallest structures in dublin. formerly the point where ships arriving across the irish sea would dock, ringsend went into decline in the 19th and 20th centuries, when the shipping moved to other locations, although there is still some container shipping. ==history and name== ringsend was originally a long narrow peninsula separated from the rest of dublin by the then much broader estuary of the river dodder. on early maps its name is given as "ring's ende" and the nearest settlements to it are given the names merryon (merrion) and donny brook. the original village of ringsend would have been (approximately) where sandymount green is now. at about the same time as the river dodder was diverted at what is now the junction of newbridge avenue and lansdowne bridge, sandymount (formerly known as the brickfields) came into being. the english having moved the irish outside the city walls started referring to the area towards the ringsend peninsula as an "irishtown." reclamation of dodder estuary and liffey areas, including the building of york and pidgeon house roads and the great south wall (south bull wall), and development in the 16th and 17th centuries, out to the poolbeg lighthouse, led to an expansion of the area. areas of deep water off ringsend point were used as staging places where goods were trans-shipped for transport by light boat from here to the city. in 1640 the first ringsend bridge over the dodder was built so that ringsend and dublin were linked by road and goods could be transported by packhorse to the city.{{cite web|url=http://www.dublincity.ie/waterwasteenvironment/wastewater/ringsendwastewater%20treatmentworksextensio
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