of St. John of Jerusalem Jim Ronayne, former Dublin Gaelic footballer and All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal winner Gerry Ryan, RTÉ DJ, grew up in Clontarf, lived on Kincora Avenue, and during his married life, on Castle Avenue Erwin Schrödinger, scientist, moved to Dublin and lived on Kincora Road in Clontarf Bryan Smyth, actor, singer and television presenter John Stafford, Former Lord Mayor of Dublin lives in Clontarf Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, was born at 15 Marino Crescent in 1847 Emma Teeling, professor at UCD, specialised in the study of bats and genetics John Teeling, academic turned entrepreneur, operator of mines in various countries and developer of Cooley Distillery and other whiskey projects Marty Whelan- DJ and presenter Sir Patrick White, High Court judge and the principal landowner here in the 1540s and 1550s See also List of towns and villages in Ireland Notes References External links Chapter 24 of 'The Neighbourhood of Dublin' by Weston St. John Joyce (1920) Clontarf Township layer on OpenStreetMap Dublin Historic Maps: Dublin Townships and Urban Districts, between 1847 and 1930 Towns and villages in Dublin (city)