Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Dun Laoghaire. You may be able to find further references to Dun Laoghaire in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kingstown	seaport town	Bartholomew
KINGSTOWN, formerly DUNLEARY	a sea-port and market-town	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Dun Laoghaire within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
Arthur Young	19th to 30th June 1776: Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Westmeath	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer