Loughlinstown

Loughlinstown (Irish: Baile Uí Lachnáin, meaning 'O'Laughnan's town') is a southern Dublin suburb, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on the N11 national road.

Loughlinstown is the location of St. Columcille's Hospital, which serves both south Dublin and Wicklow. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, an EU body, is located in Loughlinstown House.

Loughlinstown is a corrupted English translation of the Irish name Baile Uí Lachnáin, meaning "O'Laughnan's town". This was historically anglicized 'Ballyloughnan' and 'Ballylaghnan'.

Loughlinstown was inhabited from at least the Neolithic period when the megalithic portal tomb at Cromlech Fields was constructed circa 2,500 B.C. Following Henry II's conquest of Ireland, the lands around Loughlinstown were granted to the Anglo-Norman Talbot Family. By 1541 they had been granted to the Goodman Family, who held them as "warden of the marches" protecting the southern border of the Pale from raids and incursions of the Wicklow Septs.

A 1654 survey describes the area as containing 458 acres, of which 300 acres were the property of James Goodman, who acted as Provost Marshal of the Irish Confederate Army during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The remaining 128 acres were the property of the Dean of Christchurch.

Loughlinstown was granted to Sir William Domville, Attorney General for Ireland, in the reign of Charles II and James II. The Domville family held the lands for three centuries until 1962 when they were sold to Sir John Galvin.

In 1975 Loughlinstown House and Commons were the subject to a Compulsory Purchase Order by the Dublin Corporation.

The village of Loughlinstown grew on commonage land on the Dublin to Bray high road. During the 1960s, one of the earliest stretches of dual carriageway in Ireland was built through the area, leaving the village scattered along the western side of the new road.