Ailesbury Road

Ailesbury Road (Bóthar Aelsbaire in Irish), Dublin 4, Ireland, is a tree-lined avenue linking Sydney Parade Station on Sydney Parade Avenue and the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook. Many embassies and diplomatic residences have historically been located on the road, including the striking residence of the French Ambassador, the embassy of the People's Republic of China, and the Japanese embassy (before it relocated to the nearby Merrion Centre.)

For a list of embassies in the Republic of Ireland, see the list of diplomatic missions in the Republic of Ireland.

Reflecting the high property price tags in the area, Ailesbury Road is the second-most expensive property on the Irish Monopoly board, being one of the two "purple" property squares.

From Ailesbury Road, Shrewsbury Road forms the link to the Merrion Road, though Ailesbury Road proper meets Merrion Road near its eastern end. Other neighbouring street names include Ailesbury Drive, Ailesbury Park, Ailesbury Gardens & Ailesbury Grove.

St Michael's College, a private boys school is located on the east side of the road.

Ailesbury road was planned in the middle of the 19th century as a residential road in south-east Dublin, in the district then known as the "Pembroke Township". It was named for the then Marquess of Ailesbury, who had married a daughter of the Earl of Pembroke. When first built, Ailesbury road was then the longest straight road in Dublin.

The original design set for houses to be built on this road is evident in numbers 1 through 51 on the south-east side of the road. These are built of red brick and granite, with a uniform flight of granite steps leading to the hall door, and iron railings bordering the front garden. Numbers 1 through 27 inclusive were built by Alderman Meade, whose designs here and elsewhere in Dublin are characterised by circular granite pillars at the entrance gate. His own residence, which he also designed, is now St Michael’s School at the Merrion end of the road.

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