Foxrock Carraig an tSionnaigh
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WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53.2667° N 6.1742° W Irish Grid Reference O219256
Town population:	11,756 (2002)
Rural population:	N/A (2002)
Elevation:	53 m
County:	Dublin
Province:	Leinster

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It is known as a middle and upper middle class area with the majority of residents being professional people such as lawyers, engineers and businessmen. Most houses in the immediate vicinity of Foxrock Village are large detached homes on varying amounts of land, although housing in the wider Foxrock area is more typical of other well-off parts of suburban Dublin. The village of Foxrock is famous for being the only village in the Republic of Ireland without a pub. A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law and in other forms of dispute resolution. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...

Foxrock has a number of primary schools. It has one secondary school - the fee-paying Loreto Convent, Foxrock for girls. Many secondary students living in Foxrock go to fee-paying schools elsewhere on the southside of Dublin.

In recent years, with the enormous growth in the housing market in Ireland, the area has seen much building development, with the large plots of land around some houses being subdivided for development.

The railway line from Dublin Harcourt Street to Bray formerly passed through Foxrock. Although the route has now been reopened as the Green Line of the Luas light rail system, it currently terminates at Sandyford, some 3 km short of Foxrock. There are plans to extend the line. Rail services in Ireland are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland, and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland. ... Bray seafront Bray (Bré, formerly Brí Chulainn in Irish) is a town in north County Wicklow, Ireland. ... Luas (from the Irish for speed), also promoted in the development stage as the Dublin Light Rail System, currently encompasses two unconnected on-street light rail lines in Dublin, Ireland. ... This article is about light rail systems in general. ... Sandyford (Irish: Áth an Ghainimh), Dublin, Ireland, formerly a village, is now part of the conurbation of Greater Dublin, in the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. ...

Samuel Beckett grew up on an estate in Foxrock. Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ...

See also: List of towns in the Republic of Ireland