August 2nd, 1649 witnessed the devastating Battle of Rathmines when Michael Jones' 5,200 Parliamentary veterans routed James Butler, Earl of Ormond's 11,000-strong Royalist and Confederate army, inflicting 4,000 casualties while securing Dublin for Oliver Cromwell's imminent l…
Rathmines is a small place in County Dublin. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.