Raheny

I don't know of any negatives. Though I don't live in the area itself, I have friends who do and they've never mentioned any issues. The description "Raheny" covers a fairly wide area, of course, so proximity to services and amenities will vary a bit, depending on actual location.

As others have said it's a grand area.

I vaguely remember going back 20 years now problems with the water pipes in some of the older houses, I think they may have been lead pipes. I'm sure it's rectified at this stage but something to be mindful of.....plus I could be misremembering.

Like others have said, traffic can be an issue at rush hour but there are buslanes. The dart is there but raheny is massive so may not be worthwhile especially as trains are nearly always full by raheny at peak times (though admittedly since covid and WFH that may be changed)

As another poster mentioned there's a driving test centre there so you'll have lots of learners driving the route.

There's good primary and secondary schools in the area.

SuperValu is the supermarket, not the cheapest but there's a Dunnes, Tesco ALDI and Lidl in the neighbouring areas.

Dublin City rather than the North County.

Both my folks grew up in Raheny so was there regularly until relatively recently. Also lived there by myself for a few months during Covid.

It's a typical older inner suburb that's currently undergoing a fairly comprehensive generational change.

Missing some of the facilities of newer settlements (nearest large supermarket for example that's not price inflated is Donaghmede, Northside or Clare Hall) but you trade that for excellent transport connections, very nicely sized houses in general, and a quiet and safe area. Not to mention great proximity to the city centre.

No issues with beaches being swamped as there are no beaches, Dollymount is nearby but the regular summer influx of wasters that plagues certain other areas wouldn't really afect that as much.

Would recommend - but you'll need deep pockets. Bought a good bit further out, myself.

There is a large (& mostly empty) beach. The Bull Island nature reserve is part of Raheny & is accessible from Raheny via the causeway where there's 5k of beach with a resident seal colony along with the salt marshes & the dune system. All walkable from some parts of Raheny.

It depends on the person. It's exactly 2.6 kilometres from the DART station to actual beach. It takes me 34 minutes alone. Three days with the kids. There's actually a reduction in traffic during the concerts. The various running races would have a much bigger impact on some of the communities, there's about four a year.

I live close to raheny (walking distance) and tbh 30 yrs ago in school we were being told that by the time we were out age now,Sutton would be under water and Howth would be an island!

Clontarf floods but I don't remember ever hearing about anywhere in raheny flooding. Having said that I've a vague recollection of the river bursting it's banks around where the church is (I could be wrong).

I wouldn't fancy that river near my property tbh more from the rubbish that could be floating in it point of view, more than anything else.

I haven't heard anything about house insurance tbh, I'm not sure that would concern me at the minute tbh.

If that house is in Main Street or Watermill road, that river only flooded once in my memory.

Hardly an issue unique to Raheny. Estate agents always blur the boundary lines and describe a property as being in the nicer area to inflate the price.

And for the St Annes ex corpo houses...location location location.

It's not just St Annes. Short distance to Clontarf, Howth, Malahide, city centre, Dublin Airport, Dollymount strand and more. Unbelievably good transport links (for Dublin) with several buses and the DART on your doorstep. Well built houses, very little development to overlook your property. There's people queuing up to move in to the area, and that won't slow down.

Plenty of corpo houses well built too in Coolock also short distance to Clontarf, Howth, Malahide, city centre, Dublin Airport, Dollymount strand and more. Unbelievably good transport links (for Dublin) with several buses 😜 still not priced for 600k.

Collins avenue also council houses not looking for 600k. And sorry killester is much better in my eyes than Raheny 😉

Earlier you were not impressed at Edenmore being called Raheny, but now you're calling Donnycarney Killester 😉