clontarf

conordub

Does dublin port have any impact on clontarf

Tabnabs

Short answer - no.

odyssey06

Historically... yes. Not sure if the information below is what you are looking for but may be interesting nonetheless...

The building of the sea walls to protect Dublin Port led to the gradual loss of Clontarf Island (in the vicinity of what is now East Point Business Park), and Clontarf Pool, which allowed ships to anchor in water even at low tide in Dublin Bay. Ships would wait there for high tide to enter Dublin Port itself (up to 18th century).

Clontarf was a busy fishing village and harbour (Henry V is recorded as landing at Clontarf on his way to Dublin), but a combination of silting(?) from the change in tidal flows, and the use of the sloblands around what is now Fairview Park as dumping grounds for Dublin's sewage put an end to that by the early 19th century.

In the late 1970s to early 1980s plans were mooted by Dublin Port company to use the Clontarf part of Dublin Bay as a giant underground fuel storage depot. Thankfully that plan was blocked or yes, Clontarf may well have been impacted in the extreme by Dublin Port.
There are current plans to run an underground oil pipeline from Dublin Airport to Dublin port which will run under parts of Clontarf.

On the plus side, the sea walls may have led to the growth of Bull Island from what was just a sandbank.


For more, see the recently published book on Clontarf history, That Field of Glory by Colm Lennon for more.