This article is part of Ireland’s Changing Suburbs, an Irish Times series exploring our fast-growing new towns, changing older neighbourhoods, and shrinking rural landscapes. Video: Google Maps/Paul ScottIn early maps of Dublin, the suburbs, too shameful to be represented, were literally rubbed out. This contradiction was never really resolved: suburbs remain in Irish culture places to look down on and to revel in. Just as they have continued to do in every alleged Outer Siberia beyond every Irish city. In the 2022 census, Dublin city and its official suburbs had 3,659 people for every square kilometre.

Source: The Irish Times November 15, 2025 06:19 UTC