Carrickmines (Irish: Carraig Mhaighin, meaning "Plateau of rock") is suburb of Dublin in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland. Traditionally a residential area. The area is now divided north/south by the M50 motorway and its associated Junction 15. To the north are the older residential areas near Foxrock and to the south, along the Glenamuck Road are new retail parks, office buildings, apartments and housing schemes. It is also present in James Joyce A portrait of an artist being described as an area dominated by fields.