placenamesDolphinsbarn
An Carnán
An eighteenth-century map and a yellow-brick industry trace the district’s changing landscape.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Carnán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dolphinsbarn · English · main form
Place & story
Yellow bricks and local employment
Dolphin’s Barn gave its name to the yellow bricks made at a works on Crumlin Road from the late 1890s until 1944. Dublin City Council’s account describes a major local employer whose clay pits extended from Kimmage towards the Grand Canal at Goldenbridge. The bricks remain a recognisable feature of the city’s building stock. [2]
An eighteenth-century map
A 1771 map of Dolphin’s Barn survives among the Dublin City Surveyors’ maps. The collection records the city estate and its development through surveyed plots and buildings. Its Dolphin’s Barn sheet provides an earlier documentary layer for a district later associated with industry and expanding housing. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Civil parish
- Saint James's
- Within
- Dublin
- Coordinates
- 53.32620, -6.30383 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 57133 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dolphinsbarn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Dolphin’s Barn Brickworks · Dublin City Council / Cathy Scuffil
- City Surveyor’s Maps Collection1695–1827now available · Dublin City Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-07-11. How this page was prepared.