Baldoyle (Baile Dúill in Irish) is a small coastal village in Fingal, Republic of Ireland, immediately northeast of the City of Dublin. Fingal (Fine Gall in Irish, meaning foreign tribe, i. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

The name mean's "Doyle's town", from the personal name Doyle which itself derives from dubh-ghaill meaning "dark stranger", the name given by the Gaels to the Danes to distinguish them from the Norwegians or "fair strangers" (finn-ghaill) who first settled in Ireland in 841-842). (See: Irish Names of Places, Vol. I., p.350, and Mervyn Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum, edited by Cardinal Moran; Vol.11., p.21, note). The Gaels are an ethno-linguistic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic (Goidelic), a division of Insular Celtic languages. ... Events June 25: Battle of Fontenay _ Louis the German and Charles the Bald defeat Lothar. ... Events Oaths of Strasbourg — alliance of Louis the German and Charles the Bald against emperor Lothar — sworn and recorded in vernacular languages. ...

Over the last 4 years Baldoyle has been the center for Developer driven house building, with the Racecourse been sold to devlopers.

Among it's famous residents is Jay Wyer of Superjoint Ritual. Superjoint Ritual is a New Orleans heavy metal or hardcore band formed by Phil Anselmo, Joe Fazzio, and Jimmy Bower in the early 1990s, later to be joined by Hank Williams III, and Kevin Bond. ...

Thom Walshe Motors recently bought all of baldoyle and enslaved it's residents.

A description of Baldoyle from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837: | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The village is pleasantly situated on an inlet or creek of the Irish Sea, to the north of the low isthmus that connect Howth, with the mainland: it comprises about 200 houses, and is much frequented in summer for sea-bathing. Some of the inhabitants are engaged in the fishery, which at the commencement of the present century employed nine wherries belonging to this place, averaging seven or eight men each; at present nearly 100 men are so, engaged. Sir W. de Windsor, lord-justice of Ireland, held a parliament here in 1369. The creek is formed between the mainland and the long tract of sand on the north of Howth, at the point of which, near that port, a white buoy is placed; it is fit only for small craft. The manor was granted to the priory of All Saints, Dublin, by Diarmit, the son of Murchard, King of Leinster, who founded that house in 1166. Howth (Irish: Binn Éadair) is an upmarket residental area in County Dublin, Ireland. ...

External links

• Fingal - Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Malahide and St. Doolagh's
• Birdwatch Ireland
• Fingal County Council
• Sub-Aqua Club