Editing Raheny (section)

==Location and access==
[[File:Dublin NASA PIA01804 PublicDomain anntd.jpg|thumb|320px|left|Raheny today, in the context of Dublin, by satellite]]Raheny runs from the coast inland, with its centre about {{convert|8|km|mi|spell=in}} from Dublin city centre and {{convert|7|km|mi|spell=in}} from [[Dublin Airport]]. It is administered by [[Dublin City Council]]. The county boundary with [[Fingal]] lies close by, where Raheny meets [[Kilbarrack]]. Nearby areas include [[Killester]], [[Clontarf, Dublin|Clontarf]], [[Artane, Dublin|Artane]], Kilbarrack, [[Coolock]] and [[Donaghmede]], and the skyline is dominated by [[Howth Head]]. Raheny is bisected by the Howth Road (R105) and the R809 (from Bull Island via in turn Watermill Road, Main Street, Station Road) and is also accessed from the Malahide Road (R107), the coastal James Larkin Road (R807) and the R104 (including the Oscar Traynor Road and Kilbarrack Road).<ref name="OSI_locale_road_nos">{{cite web |title=Geohive Mapviewer (zoomed to Raheny) |url=http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html |website=Ordnance Survey Ireland |publisher=Government of Ireland |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706032538/http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Raheny railway station]], opened on 25 May 1844,<ref name="Stn_Railscot">{{cite web | title=Raheny station | work=Railscot – Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=2007-09-03 | archive-date=2 March 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302022802/http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> overlooking the village centre, serves the [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] suburban [[railway]] system and the Dublin-[[Belfast]] main line,<ref name="Rail_stn_Raheny">{{cite web |title=Raheny |url=https://www.irishrail.ie/station/raheny |website=Irish Rail |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716102408/https://www.irishrail.ie/station/raheny |url-status=live }}</ref> and parts of Raheny are served by other DART stations, [[Harmonstown railway station|Harmonstown]] and [[Kilbarrack railway station|Kilbarrack]],<ref name="Rail_stn_Harmon">{{cite web |title=Harmonstown |url=https://www.irishrail.ie/station/harmonstown |website=Irish Rail |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716145556/https://www.irishrail.ie/station/harmonstown |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Rail_stn_Kilb">{{cite web |title=Kilbarrack |url=https://www.irishrail.ie/station/kilbarrack |website=Irish Rail |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=18 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718000452/https://www.irishrail.ie/station/kilbarrack |url-status=live }}</ref> on the same line. Raheny is also served by [[Dublin Bus]] (routes H1, H2 and H3)<ref name="MkMvRah_2020"/><ref name="DBus_2020">{{cite web |title=Raheny (search) |url=http://www.dublinbus.ie/Your-Journey1/Timetables/?searchtype=place&searchquery=raheny |website=Dublin Bus |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716092248/http://www.dublinbus.ie/Your-Journey1/Timetables/?searchtype=place&searchquery=raheny |url-status=live }}</ref> and has a [[Taxicab|taxi]] rank.<ref name="Taxirank">{{cite web |title=Taxi Ranks (main and feeder) |url=http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-roads-and-traffic-general-traffic-measures/taxi-ranks |website=Dublin City Council |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716103609/http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-roads-and-traffic-general-traffic-measures/taxi-ranks |url-status=live }}</ref>

Much of the district is situated on gently rising ground, with a bluff overlooking Bull Island at Maywood and Bettyglen, and further rises from the village centre to the station and then to Belmont or Mount Olive, a hill which once featured a windmill. Opposite and beyond Belmont was once an area of sunken land with limestone quarries<ref name="Topo_quarries">{{cite web |title=Where |url=http://www.raheny.com/where.htm |website=raheny.com |access-date=16 July 2020 |archive-date=21 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721093947/http://raheny.com/where.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> but this was landfilled, much of it with urban refuse, and then partly levelled and converted into a city park, Edenmore Park, in the late 1960s.<ref name="EdenmPk_brf">{{cite web |title=Edenmore Park before development, late 1960s |url=https://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/021-parks-edenmore |website=Dublin City Council |access-date=31 August 2020 |archive-date=7 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007040825/http://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/021-parks-edenmore |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Dublin 1901 NE B.png|thumb|268px|right|Raheny and neighbouring districts, early 20th century]]