Best Tennis Clubs In Dublin Near Me

4worldlovers: Mount Pleasant L.T.C. is one of Dublin's leading racket sports clubs, established in 1893 the club is located in the picturesque Mount Pleasant Square, Ranelagh, only minutes from the city centre.

4worldlovers:
Welcome to Ashbrook Tennis Club, a well-established club situated in the heart of the Rathmines/Rathgar area of Dublin. Since 1922, our club has been serving the local community and beyond.

At Ashbrook, we pride ourselves on being a family-friendly club, catering to our younger members with a comprehensive coaching program and fun-filled Easter and Summer Camps.

For our adult members, we offer opportunities to participate in internal and provincial competitions, including the highly popular Ashbrook Senior Open during the Summer.

4worldlovers:
No one knows, but my theory is that the Club started as a group of friends playing on a private court in the grounds of the house called Brookfield on Richmond Avenue S. This would be before they moved to the grounds on Fortfield Terrace.


The game is called Lawn Tennis to differentiate it from Real Tennis - which is different and is played indoors.


A minute of a committee meeting held in 1927 refers to its being the 23rd year of the club. This makes the founding date 1904.

The two circulars below are stuck inside the front cover of a minutes book, dated 1927, and tell their own story. We had to move from our grounds at the far end of Fortfield Terrace because the site had been sold for building purposes.

As this minutes book is the earliest one we have, nothing is known of the early history of the Club, except that it did have grounds on Fortfield Terrace. According to Eric Fenelon, who had been told by J.R. Bailey who played there, there were four courts. We also know from a minute that they sold both pavilions for £15 after the move.

The annual General meeting will be held at 17 Greenmount Road, Terenure, on Friday, 30th September 8 p.m. (Tea provided)

Your attendance is earnestly requested, as a decision must be made regarding the future of the Club. If a suitable scheme cannot be devised, the Club must close, as the premises will not be available next year.

As you are aware the Club is going to lose the ground it has occupied for so many years. The Committee are considering the possibility of carrying on the Club on another ground, and of arranging Teams for Inter-club Matches.

The new ground and pavilion would necessitate considerable capital expenditure, an increased membership, and probably an increased subscription. Will you kindly let me know at once, as a help to the Committee. (a) Whether you would continue membership at a subscription of, say, 30/-; (b) whether you could obtain fresh members, and, if so, how many; and, (c) as a Guarantee Fund would certainly be necessary, whether you would be prepared to join in it, and, if so, to what extent.

When replies to this circular have been received, it is proposed to call a General

The first meetings were all about the move from Fortfield Terrace-was it practical? could we afford it? how could it be paid for? etc. Anyway the move was made and new courts laid, at "£17 each." Five courts were laid in early 1928, with play starting on May 12th. Court six and the Junior court were laid in the autumn. The croquet lawn was laid in 1929-for £30. The 7th tennis court was laid in 1930 to complete a phased development. The layout of the grounds at that time is shown on page 13.

Quotations were obtained for a new pavilion, the contract was let to Baileys in February 1928 for the sum of £224 and the new building was finished in time for the opening of our first season at Palmerston Park.

The new pavilion, which was located close to the wall with Palmerston Gardens, was built of timber and was typical of sports pavilions of the era. It is shown in the photograph on the next page. It consisted of two changing rooms with a club room between.

In 1935 some trees between the pavilion and the boundary wall were felled and a kitchen extension built for £43; by McCleans-the same company who installed the new corner window in the lounge last year.

Physically the Club did not change from 1935 until 1975, when the Grounds were redesigned in preparation for the Squash Ireland development. As this was a major turning point in the club's fortunes it is considered in more detail below in Appendix A. The car park and part of the junior court were converted to a tarmac type hard court. The balance of the junior court and part of the croquet lawn were re-graded and sodded, using sods from the area to be leased to Squash Ireland. All fencing was replaced.

Our old and long-serving pavilion was demolished and work started on the new building in early 1976. For one summer we had to make do with a mobile home as a pavilion. We moved into the new building in May 1977. With our strengthening membership and improved finances we have been able to undertake various improvements in our facilities since then:

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