Glasthule

Coordinates: 53°17′14″N 6°07′25″W / 53.2871°N 6.1235°W

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Glasthule Glas Tuathail
Suburb of Dublin
coastline in Glasthule
Glasthule Location in Dublin Show map of Dublin Glasthule Glasthule (Ireland) Show map of Ireland
Coordinates: 53°17′14″N 6°07′25″W / 53.2871°N 6.1235°W / 53.2871; -6.1235
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Population (2006)
• Urban	2,641
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Eircode (Routing Key)	A96
Area code	01 (+3531)

Glasthule (/ˈɡlæsθuːl/ GLAS-thool; Irish: Glas Tuathail, meaning 'O'Toole's Stream') is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is along County Dublin’s south coast, between Dún Laoghaire, Sandycove, Glenageary and Dalkey.

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Sandycove and Glasthule are served by a number of businesses and amenities, including retail outlets, public houses, a post office, restaurants, cafés and a playschool.^{[citation needed]}

The Presentation Brothers maintain a house in Glasthule and ran Presentation College Glasthule, a secondary school for boys, until 2006. The Harold National School, next door to Presentation Brothers still operates today.

An Aircoach service links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

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Every year on 16 June it celebrates Bloomsday (the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place). The James Joyce Tower is located in nearby Sandycove.

It is the main setting for Jamie O'Neill's 2001 novel At Swim, Two Boys.

v t e Places in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
County town: Dún Laoghaire
Villages and suburbs	Ballinteer Ballybrack Barnacullia Blackrock Booterstown Cabinteely Carrickmines Cherrywood Churchtown Clonskeagh Dalkey Deansgrange Dún Laoghaire Dundrum Foxrock Goatstown Glasthule Glenageary Glencullen Johnstown Killiney Kill of the Grange Kilmacud Kilternan Leopardstown Loughlinstown Monkstown Mount Merrion Rathfarnham Rathmichael Sandyford Sandycove Sallynoggin Shankill Stepaside Stillorgan Windy Arbour
Category:Mountains and hills of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Category:Rivers of County Dublin Category:Geography of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Residential areas of County Dublin

North of River Liffey
(Northside)

South of River Liffey
(Southside)

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