120945: Kingstown/Dunleary

Dunleary was a small town until the British marked it as a potential new port close to Dublin. Construction of a new port was authorised in 1816 and when King George IV came to visit the new port under construction in 1821, the name Dunleary was dropped in favour of the name Kingstown.

The town reverted to the name Dunleary in 1920 when the port was handed back to the Irish Free State.