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6 unusual facts about Dundrum


Dundrum, County Down

The SS Great Britain, one of the first iron ships and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was on its way from Liverpool to New York in 1846, when it ran aground during bad weather in Dundrum Bay.

The captain, James Hosken, miscalculated the steamer's speed, and with poor charts, mistook the St John's Point lighthouse for the Chicken Rock lighthouse.

Dundrum, County Tipperary

The meteorite was an ordinary chondrite H5 and it is currently stored at the Natural History Museum in London.

Mamie Cadden

Cadden started serving her term in Mountjoy Prison, but was declared insane and moved to the Criminal Lunatic asylum in Dundrum, Dublin, where she died of a heart attack in 1959.

Naimee Coleman

Naimee Coleman is a singer/songwriter from Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland.

Simpson's Hospital, Dublin

Simpson's Hospital, founded in 1779, is located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland.


Frederick Clarendon

Joshua Jebb with Clarendon acting as executive architect, and Clarendon was also co-designer of the "Criminal Lunatic Asylum" in Dundrum two years later.

Taney Parish

He founded a Dundrum Company of the Boys’ Brigade also, which was replaced in 1922 by troops of Boy Scouts (SAI, now Scouting Ireland) and Girl Guides.


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