page_title: Baldoyle
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Baldoyle / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of St. Laurence O&#39;Toole, Baldoyle, Co. Dublin., near to Kilbarrack, Baile Duill and Sutton, Dublin, Ireland. St. Lawrence O&#39;Toole, (1128 to 1180), was the first Irish-born Bishop of Dublin, being consecrated in 1162. &lt;a title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09091b.htm" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09091b.htm"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/&gt;
context_page_description: Baldoyle is a coastal suburb of Dublin's northside. It is located in the southeastern part of the jurisdiction of Fingal, Ireland, developed from a former fishing village.
  Baldoyle is also a civil parish in the barony of Coolock within the historic County Dublin.
context_section_description: Baldoyle with its sheltered waterside location, was a Viking base for many years, eventually suppressed by an attack by the King of Leinster.
  A description of Baldoyle from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (Dublin, 1837) gives a useful summary of what was then a substantial rural fishing village:
  The village is pleasantly situated on an inlet or creek of the Irish Sea, to the north of the low isthmus that connects Howth, with the mainland: it comprises about 200 houses, and is much frequented in summer for sea-bathing. Some of the inhabitants are engaged in the fishery, which at the commencement of the present century employed nine wherries belonging to this place, averaging seven or eight men each; at present nearly 100 men are so, engaged. Sir W. de Windsor, lord-justice of Ireland, held a parliament here in 1369. The creek is formed between the mainland and the long tract of sand on the north of Howth, at the point of which, near that port, a white buoy is placed; it is fit only for small craft. The manor was granted to the priory of All Saints, Dublin, by Diarmit, the son of Murchard, King of Leinster, who founded that house in 1166.
  The parliament mentioned above was held at Grange Church, better known as Grange Abbey, which now lies in Donaghmede and was partly restored in the late 20th century.  At that time the area had a population of 1208, of whom 1009 lived in the village, and the lands belonged entirely to Dublin Corporation. There were three "big houses" viz Grange Lodge, Donaghmede House and Talavera, a police station and a coast guard base, and both a parish school and a hedge school, and at least one holy well.
  The new district of Donaghmede, comprising perhaps six major housing development areas and a commercial and social core, was "carved out" of Baldoyle's inland lands, along with a little of Coolock, and some places often described as part of Raheny, in the 1960s and 1970s; it now has a population considerably greater than that of Baldoyle.
caption: Church of St. Laurence O'Toole, Baldoyle
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