It is bordered by the suburbs of Artane, Beaumont, Killester and Marino, and lies in the postal districts of Dublin 3, 5 and 9.

It is in the Clontarf West Electoral Division 1901, in the Civil Parish of Clonturk, in the Barony of Coolock.

Go-Ahead Ireland Route 104 from Dublin City University to Clontarf also serves Collins Avenue East.

Transport for Ireland (TFI) bus route N4 serves a night-link service from Blanchardstown to Point Village, travelling down Collins Avenue, while connecting both sides of Donnycarney.

The Killester Dart urban rail station is also nearby, at the beginning of Collins Avenue.

After the English Civil War, the Hetherington family lost their lands and their house, which was probably located somewhere in the Marino area.

Michael Jones, the governor of Dublin, was given the lands at a nominal rent and was succeeded in this by his sister, Mrs Elliott.

[citation needed] John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, succeeded the Basil family in holding the lands, and when he lived there his friend, the philosopher George Berkeley, would visit him.

[2] Four hundred cottages were planned by Dublin corporation in Donnycarney for tenant purchase, favouring private middle-class housing.

The former taoiseach (prime minister) Charles Haughey was raised on Belton Park Road.

Charles Haughey was a teachta dála (member of parliament) for the area for 35 years; he also became taoiseach (prime minister).