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.

Well 5-6 stops on the DART southside gives you Booterstown on the sea? I think property prices are a good bit more expensive there?

Away from the DART Raheny reminds me of Rathfarnham for some reason - house prices, park, variety of amenities?

We are considering moving within the next 2 years, to allow time to save for any renovations, and Raheny is high up on my list of preferred areas. My only concern is whether there is a flooding risk with several properties being located so close to the coast. We are always hearing about rising sea levels. Would this have an impact on getting house insurance in the general area would anyone know or is it dependent on the specific property?

For example, I recently saw an excellent house for sale in Raheny but a river runs at the far end of the garden. This would put me off buying, more for safety reasons than anything else but would a property like that be problematic when applying for a mortgage?

They have reinforced the sea wall in Clontarf and Raheny. If the sea level rises then they will raise the sea wall. I wouldn't be too concerned about sea level from that point of view

The potential issue I see with Raheny is all the houses which are in the nearby areas and are called Raheny see for example Edenmore, or Toneglee road, etc which for some reason are all called Raheny now, clearly not.

Also some of the corpo houses near St Ann's Park have eye watering prices for what they are…run down corpo houses.

Still corpo houses no matter how you dress them up. And some of the roads don't look great sorry. I fail to see how they are worth 600k just being near St Ann's. Time will tell. EAs seem to struggle finding silly gits buying them.

Tbh I think I'd buy an ex corpo house in a nice area quicker than a new build.

Good sized square rooms solidly built!

Mint Cottage, Taza (closed for renovations) The Manhattan, McHughs & Mullinos in Raheny.

Very true 😆

Madness! 600k utter madness.

Just to be clear here, Edenmore, Tonglagee road etc have always been part of Raheny.

Raheny starts at the TLC nursing home and goes the length of the Tonglagee road on both sides. Also from the TLC Raheny includes everything on the T of that junction. This covers all of Edenmore and Woodbine.

Raheny starts at the Sibble Hill area and runs the length of the Howth Road up to the junction on the coast and Kilbarrack Road.

None of these parts of Raheny have been added or changed to Raheny. When I was a child 50 years old, school teachers explaining that Edenmore was Raheny

Think it's you missing the point here

As John Rambo said above those houses are priced according to location.

Thread is talking about Raheny not council houses btw .

I just pointed out that there are other areas nearby that are not as close to the sea or the park but still close enough that have good houses and are more reasonably priced .

I know many people living in 'ex corpo homes on ex corpo roads ' as you describe them , very happily . Some buy them as starter homes and move on, others do them up and stay because they like the community and their neighbours .

My friend lives very happily in one of those ' corpo houses ' you are denigrating on the edge of the park .They have a beautiful solid home, insulated and extended , and their children attended school nearby and went to university and have good jobs and some have homes of their own now ..

They chose that home because of its prime location and access to good schools , as many others do .

They stay because of the reasons outlined above .

Great post but I think the demographics have changed over the last 15 years. More families moving in from outside Raheny (and Dublin, and indeed Ireland in some cases). A lot of the original descendants of the original 1950's homeowners have sold up.

Yeah. Lots of nice cars outside recently bought and renovated houses. Families from all over moving in. In fairness, that's the way it goes in urban areas, I couldn't afford to buy where may parents live either. The new people are injecting new life in to the area, joining up with the local sports clubs, getting involved in the community etc.. I can see improvements in the village, Taza building a big extension, bakery opened, Butlers Pantry moved in, flower shop, dog groomer etc…