Rathmines is an inner suburb on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to
Rathmines Road viewed from Leinster Road
Rathmines Town Hall in Rathmines Road
Grosvenor Square, Rathmines
Belgravia is a district in Central London, covering parts of the areas of the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Rathmines
…often tiny flats and bedsits have in a process of gentrifying been re-amalgamated into single-family homes. Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin Belgravia" in the 19th century. Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ráth Maonais, meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas". The name Maonas is perhaps…
Belgrave Square in the late 1820s, shortly after construction
Upper Belgrave Street, Belgravia
The former Royal College of Psychiatrists, Belgrave Square