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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "DALKEY ISLAND":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Dalkey	Dublin	Dalkey , par., township, and vil. with ry. sta. and harb., in co. and 8 miles S.E. of Dublin, on the coast, 2 miles SE. of Kingstown -- par., 468 ac., pop. 2790; township, 592 ac., pop. 3234; P.O., T.O.; remarkable for the beauty and salubrity of its situation. Separated from the mainland by D. Sound is Dalkey Island	Bartholomew
  DALKEY	Dublin	Dalkey Head to Irishtown, within which are batteries at Dalkey island, Sandy Cove, and Kingstown, and nine martello towers. The parish	Lewis:Ireland
  DALKEY ISLAND	Dublin	DALKEY ISLAND , in the parish of DALKEY, barony of UPPERCROSS, county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER. This island is situated	Lewis:Ireland
  DUBLIN	Dublin	DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  DUBLIN	Dublin	Dalkey, Drumcondra, Stillorgan, Raheny, Dundrum, Roundtown, Ranelagh, Artaine, Clontarf, Castleknock, Chapelizod, Glasnevin (each of which has a twopenny post to Dublin), Donabate, Portrane, Garristown, Belgriffin, St. Doulough's, Old Connaught, Killiney, Bullock, Lusk, Newcastle, Saggard, Balrothery, Little Bray, Clondalkin, Coolock, Crumlin, Golden-Bridge, Island	Lewis:Ireland
  LAMBAY	Dublin	island was granted to Archbishop Ussher, who resided here for a considerable time, during which he is said to have written part of his works; after his decease it was purchased from his representatives by the family of Talbot, who are its present proprietors. It is about four miles in circumference, and forms an elevated ridge, with rocky knolls and cragged brows, strongly contrasting with the flat sandy shore of the mainland, appearing like the last offset of the Wicklow mountains in this direction, and corresponding with the detached heights of Ireland's Eye, Howth, and Dalkey	Lewis:Ireland
  Muglin Rock	Dublin	Muglin Rock , ¼ mile E. of Dalkey island, co. Dublin.	Bartholomew

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