Glasnevin has two centres, and most of its customers come from outside both. The village is the stretch around Botanic Road and Glasnevin Hill, where the road crosses the Tolka beside the Botanic Gardens, with pubs, cafes, a few shops and clinics in the old houses. Up the Finglas Road are the cemetery gates, the round tower, and the florists and funeral directors that serve them. In between are the long avenues, Griffith Avenue above all, then Mobhi Road, Ballymun Road and Home Farm Road, lined with houses that have been in the same families for decades, and the DCU campus on Collins Avenue bringing a new crowd of students every autumn. If you are looking for website design in Glasnevin you are probably one of three things: a village business, a trade or clinic working from one of the avenues, or someone serving the people who come to the gardens and the cemetery. We are Dublin based and we meet all three in person.
Who is searching in Glasnevin
The people stepping off a bus on Botanic Road already know where they are going. The searches come from elsewhere. A family arriving for a funeral searches “florist near Glasnevin Cemetery” from the car on the way in. A DCU student new to the area searches “dentist Glasnevin” the first time a tooth hurts, because they have no family dentist here. A couple who have just bought on one of the avenues search “physio Dublin 9” and “painter Glasnevin” within a month of moving in.
Settled residents recommend by name, in the parish and residents’ groups and on the school WhatsApp groups, and then whoever gets the name searches it. Autumn is the busy time for anyone selling to students. January is the quiet month for most of the village.
What a Glasnevin site has to get right
The area name comes first. Glasnevin straddles Dublin 9 and Dublin 11, so the routing key on your door is D09 or D11, and your page and your Google Business Profile should state the right one along with the street. Botanic Road, Glasnevin Hill, Finglas Road and Griffith Avenue are all names people type, and a clinic on one of them should say so.
Then the ordinary things done properly: hours including bank holidays, a price list or “from” prices, photos you actually took, a map pin in the right place, and a note on parking, which is tight around the village and the gardens. For a trade covering the whole north side, the site names Glasnevin, Drumcondra, Phibsborough and Finglas as the places you work rather than claiming all of Dublin.
The clinics and tutors with no page of their own
Glasnevin has a lot of good businesses with no site at all: grinds tutors working from the front room, physios and counsellors renting a room two days a week, home bakers, dog walkers who use Griffith Park and the Tolka walk, florists who only post on Instagram. Each one is losing the person who searched instead of asking around. A plain page with what you do, where, when and how to book fixes that, and the page is yours, not the platform’s. The guide on setting up a Google Business Profile in Ireland explains the listing side of it, and the one on Instagram versus a website covers the rest.
Price and plans
Essentials costs €499 to set up and €50 a month, which covers the site, the hosting, the Google listing and small changes by WhatsApp. Complete is €1,499 and €100 a month and adds bookings, payments, reviews and chat. The detail is on the pricing page. To see what we build for a specific kind of business, start at the trades hub or go straight to the florists page.