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Marino, Dublin — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Marino is a planned Northside suburb of Dublin, laid out as a single scheme of concrete-built houses on the former grounds of Marino House.
About Marino
Where to stay in Marino
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Beds are thin on the ground here. Marino was built as housing and keeps little in the way of hotels, so most visitors book in Drumcondra or Clontarf and reach the suburb in minutes from either side. Match days change that.
Anyone here for a fixture at Parnell Park, or for the Gaelic Athletic Association museum, gains more from a room on the Northside than from one in the Dublin city centre.
About Marino
What are the main landmarks in Marino?
Parnell Park draws the crowds. Gaelic games fill it, and the Gaelic Athletic Association museum sits within the same northside reach, so match days rather than sightseeing set the busiest hours around Marino. Churches mark the older layer.
The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Drumcondra Church and North Strand Church stand in the surrounding streets, alongside Drumcondra Castle, Bushfield House and the house at 31 Richmond Avenue.
What is the history of Marino?
Marino House came first. The suburb was laid out in planned form on the former grounds of that house, filling open land in the area between Drumcondra, Donnycarney, Clontarf and what became Fairview. Concrete did the work.
The initial development went up in concrete-built houses, a planned scheme rather than a gradual filling-in, and that single build gives the streets of Marino their uniform run.
Where is Marino?
Marino fills the ground between Drumcondra, Donnycarney, Clontarf and Fairview, an inner suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.
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Updated September 2026