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Donnycarney () is a Northside suburb in the city of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council. It is mostly residential, around from the centre of Dublin. Dublin GAA's home stadium, Parnell Park, is located here.
It is bordered by the suburbs of Artane, Beaumont, Killester and Marino, and lies in the postal districts of Dublin 3, 5 and 9.
It is in the Clontarf West Electoral Division 1901, in the Civil Parish of Clonturk, in the Barony of Coolock.
Go-Ahead Ireland Route 104 from Dublin City University to Clontarf also serves Collins Avenue East.
Transport for Ireland (TFI) bus route N4 serves a night-link service from Blanchardstown to Point Village, travelling down Collins Avenue, while connecting both sides of Donnycarney.
Michael Jones, the governor of Dublin, was given the lands at a nominal rent and was succeeded in this by his sister, Mrs Elliott. William Basil, Attorney-General for Ireland, leased the lands during the Cromwellian period and retained the lands after the Restoration.
John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, succeeded the Basil family in holding the lands, and when he lived there his friend, the philosopher George Berkeley, would visit him. Berkeley described the walk from Trinity College as lonely but said that Donnycarney was beautiful.
The lands were then leased by a number of gentlemen in quick succession, until Thomas Adderley took possession. He built Marino House for his stepson, James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont in the southeastern end of Donnycarney which is now called Marino. Caulfield went on to build the Casino at Marino.
The lands reverted to Dublin Corporation after the Caulfields left Marino House, allowing for the construction of the Marino housing scheme, and further Corporation housing schemes in modern-day Donnycarney.
Donnycarney is predominantly residential, as a result of developments during the 1920s when Dublin Corporation made housing schemes for the suburban areas of the Northside of Dublin. Previously, areas such as Donnycarney were farmland with just one village street.
Four hundred cottages were planned by Dublin corporation in Donnycarney for tenant purchase, favouring private middle-class housing. Government housing policies were not in favour of the working class at the time. No slum clearance schemes were tackled until the 1930s, which in turn led to corporation housing being built. It was not until the 1930s that Dublin Corporation developed these houses.
The area called Old Donnycarney are these few hundred houses built in the townland in 1931 and 1932. They are situated to the left side of the Malahide Road, perpendicular to Collins Avenue. These roads and streets are named after trees: Hazel, Holly, Oak and Elm. An exception is Belton Park, where the houses were privately built in the 1930s by the Belton family. These houses are slightly larger than those built by the corporation. The former taoiseach (prime minister) Charles Haughey was raised on Belton Park Road. “Old Donnycarney” is now known as Donnycarney West.
The Dublin Street Directory of 1873 lists the following houses in Donnycarney at the time: Donnycarney Cottage, Laurel Hill, Elm Mount, Kavanagh's Grocery, "The Refuge" (Irish pub), Ganeville, Mount Temple and St. John's, along with just eight houses on Oak Road.
The later Donnycarney housing scheme was completed in 1949 where it was built on the lands of 'Victoria Park' which was mostly grazing land.
Most of this new Donnycarney housing is opposite Parnell Park as opposed to the old housing that stretches the length of Collins Avenue, towards Whitehall. Our Lady of Consolation National School and Scoil Chiarain Boys School are on Collins Avenue East in New Donnycarney.
Parnell Park is the Dublin GAA home stadium where the Dublin inter-county teams play many of their matches, including lower-profile matches which do not warrant the use of the national stadium, Croke Park.
The local GAA clubs are Craobh Chiaráin and St Vincents. There are also association football teams.
The Clontarf Golf Club, crossed by the Wad River, is on Malahide Road.
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