Sutton Park, Dublin

Sutton Park (Irish: Páirc Chill Fhionntain)[1] is on the coastline of Dublin Bay, Ireland.

This article is about the residential area. For the school of the same name, a few km away, in Sutton, see Sutton Park School.

Built in the 1960s, on the site on an old sand quarry and green fields where horses roamed it was built a decade prior to neighbouring Bayside. Located between the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) line and the coastal Dublin Road, with access from Bayside Boulevard, Bayside Park and one external link to the R105 coast road, a section of the Dublin-Howth-Holyhead-London road built by Thomas Telford in 1823.

Location and geography

Sutton Park is located in Fingal, north County Dublin, 10 km (6 mi) from Dublin city centre. It is a low-density residential area, comprising multiple roads named Sutton Park as well as Sutton Lawns, Sutton Downs and Sutton Grove.

The adjoining neighbourhoods are Sarto / Roncalli, Verbena, Alden and Bayside Boulevards North and South.

Sutton Park falls within the Dublin Bay North constituency.

Media

The award-winning 2007 film, 32A, written and directed by Marian Quinn, was shot on location in Sutton Park and environs.

Notable residents
  • John Carroll (trade unionist) (1925-2018), was involved in the formation of SIPTU through the amalgamation of the ITGWU and Federated Workers Union of Ireland.[2] From the late 1950s, Carroll worked towards the creation of national bargaining mechanisms. He served almost 20 years on the executive of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and was its president. He was also a Senator in the 15th Seanad.[2]

References
  1. "Páirc Chill Fhionntain / Sutton Park". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  2. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Times, 19 May 2018


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