Four Roads to Dublin The History of Ranelagh, Rathmines and Leeson Street Book

In ancient times, four roads led into Dublin from the southwest, and the area between has always played a significant part in the development of the city. From medieval times to its present role as a fashionable but dynamic inner suburb, what was originally a dangerous no-man's land between the walled city and the Wicklow Mountains was by the mid-eighteenth century fast becoming one of Dublin's most exciting neighborhoods, socially and architecturally. Illustrated with maps, and contemporary and historical photographs.