Glasthule (/ˈɡlæsθuːl/ GLAS-thool; Irish: Glas Tuathail, meaning 'O'Toole's Stream') is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is along County Dublin’s south coast, between Dún Laoghaire and Dalkey.

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Glasthule Glas Tuathail
Suburb of Dublin
coastline in Glasthule
Glasthule Location in Dublin Show map of Dublin Glasthule Glasthule (Ireland) Show map of Ireland
Coordinates: 53°17′14″N 6°07′25″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Population  (2006)
• Urban	2,641
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Eircode (Routing Key)	A96
Area code	01 (+3531)

Amenities

In Sandycove and Glasthule, all on a street of one kilometre (shorter than Grafton Street in Dublin): butchers, grocer, supermarket, hairdressers, pharmacies, car sales garages, cake shop, bakery, bookmakers, auctioneers, public houses, beauty salons, florists, book shop, curtain and drapery shop, boutiques, wine merchants, dentists, doctors, bookshop, veterinary surgeon, post office, restaurants, cafés, late night shops, solicitors, playschool & dry cleaners.

The Presentation Brothers maintain a house in Glasthule and ran Presentation College Glasthule, a secondary school for boys, until 2006. The Harold National School, next door to Presentation Brothers still operates today.

An Aircoach service links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day.

Popular culture

Every year on 16 June it celebrates Bloomsday (the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place). The James Joyce Tower is located in nearby Sandycove.

It is the main setting for Jamie O'Neill's 2001 novel At Swim, Two Boys.

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland
• Sandycove and Glasthule railway station

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