Rathgar

Rathgar is a suburb of , . Originally a village, which from 1862 was part of the township of Rathmines and Rathgar, it was absorbed by the growing city and became a suburb in 1930. It lies about three kilometres south of the city centre.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Herzog Park and St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar.

Park
is a small public park in Rathgar, , Ireland. Named for Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel, who grew up in Dublin, it occupies the site of a former stone quarry and was laid out as a neighbourhood park in the 1980s.

Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital, is a in Rathgar, , which has specialised in treating cancer patients from throughout Ireland for over half a century. It is the primary national centre for radiotherapy treatment.

Photo: AndrewH, Public domain.
is a 16th-century fortified house in , , Ireland. Originally a semi-fortified and battlemented structure, it underwent extensive alterations in the 18th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Terenure and Dartry.

Suburb
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, called Roundtown from around 1800-1870, is a middle class suburb of in Ireland. It is located in the city's D6 and D6W postal districts. The population of all electoral divisions labelled as was 17,972 as of the 2022 census.

Suburb
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is a small suburb of , , often referred to as a corridor between area and . Among the locations in are Road, Temple Road, Orwell Park and .

Village
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is a southside suburb of , in . It is south of , east of , and is in the postal districts of Dublin 14 and 16.

Rathgar

Latitude
53.31185° or 53° 18′ 43″ north
Longitude
-6.27447° or 6° 16′ 28″ west
Population
8,390
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
9C5M8P6G+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52271749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3315287
Wiki­data ID
Q2528857
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Urdu—“Rathgar” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Ratqar”
  • Basque: “Rathgar”
  • Belarusian: “Ратгар”
  • Bulgarian: “Ратгар”
  • Bulgarian: “Ратхгар”
  • Cebuano: “Rathgar”
  • Chinese: “拉斯加”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ratgar”
  • Czech: “Rathgar”
  • Danish: “Rathgar”
  • Dutch: “Rathgar”
  • Esperanto: “Rathgar”
  • French: “Rathgar”
  • Galician: “Rathgar”
  • German: “Rathgar”
  • Irish: “Ráth Garbh”
  • Italian: “Rathgar”
  • Japanese: “ラスガー”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rathgar”
  • Manx: “Ráth Garbh”
  • Polish: “Rathgar”
  • Russian: “Ратгар”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ráth Garbh”
  • Slovenian: “Rathgar”
  • Spanish: “Rathgar”
  • Swedish: “Rathgar”
  • Tajik: “Ратгар”
  • Urdu: “راٹھ گار”
  • “Rathgar”

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