Rathmines and Rathgar

Rathmines and Rathgar is a former second-tier local government area within County Dublin.

The urban district was at the core of the Dublin Rathmines constituency, created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918.

Dockrell was the only Unionist elected in a geographical constituency outside Ulster.

The area was part of the Dáil constituency of Dublin County from 1921 to 1937.

After the abolition of the district, it was used with Pembroke as the basis of the Dublin Townships constituency, defined as "The area referred to in the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930, as the added urban districts and also so much of the land described in Part III of the First Schedule to the said Act as is contiguous to the said area and also the townland of Clonskeagh.