Blackrock (Irish: An Charraig Dhubh) is an affluent suburb of Dublin, Ireland, 3 km (1.9 mi) northwest of Dún Laoghaire. It is named after the local geological rock formation to be found in the area of Blackrock Park.

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Blackrock’s golden age started in the 17th century when Anglo-Irish aristocracy began to build a number of stately homes in the area, overlooking Dublin Bay and wealthy Dubliners followed, turning the small coastal village into a popular seaside resort in the 18th century.

Blackrock is nowadays a suburb of Dublin, but it once was a Town of its own. Up to about 1700, the area where it is located was just an empty bit of coastline, south of Dublin. Strangely, as it was then quite a distance away, it did belong to the City of Dublin.

Blackrock is a suburb of Dublin, in County Dublin, two miles north-west of Dún Laoghaire. Blackrock covers a large but not precisely defined area, rising from sea level on the coast to 300 feet at White's Cross on the N11 national primary road.

The aims of Blackrock Society are to: To create an awareness of the history, culture, science and literary contributions, architecture, people and, indeed, the peculiarities of the County Dublin town of Blackrock, together with its surrounds, thus adding to the local community’s sense of itself.

Blackrock, southeastern suburb of Dublin, Ireland, and an administrative part of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county, on Dublin Bay. Blackrock grew substantially in the 18th century as a fashionable bathing resort; it developed further with the opening of a rail line between Dublin and Kingstown in 1834.

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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Blackrock like this: Blackrock.-- township, Monkstown par., S. co. Dublin, 4 miles SE. of Dublin by rail, on Dublin Bay, 1084 ac., pop. 8902; P.O., t.o.