The present town of Dún Laoghaire
dates from the 1820s. An earlier Dún Laoghaire village was located around the
area where "The Purty Kitchen" pub is now located (sometimes mapped
as "Old Dunleary"). Dún Laoghaire had a coffee house, and a small
cove, both of which are shown on a number of old maps, and it may have had a
salt mine (Salthill is close by). At that time, the area on which the town is
currently located was a craggy, rocky pasture area with some quarries.
