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Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown () is a large outer suburb of Dublin in the modern Counties of Ireland, county of Fingal, Ireland. Located northwest of Dublin city centre, it has developed since the 1960s from a small village to a point where Greater Blanchardstown is the largest urban area in Fingal. It is within the historical Barony (Ireland), barony of Castleknock (barony), Castleknock in the traditional County Dublin, as well as the Dublin 15 postal area and the Dublin West (Dáil constituency), Dublin West electoral constituency. One of Ireland's largest shopping and leisure complexes — the Blanchardstown Centre and adjacent facilities — is located in the area. Etymology The name Blanchardstown comes from the Blanchard family, who were granted their estate sometime between 1250 and 1260. The name 'Blanchard' is thought to come from the old French word 'blanch' meaning white, in turn potentially referring to white or fair hair. Geography Blanchardstown is just outside Dublin's M50 mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin West (Dáil Constituency)
Dublin West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects five deputies ( Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Boundaries The constituency includes Mulhuddart, Corduff, Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Carpenterstown, Barberstown, Clonsilla and Ongar. The portion in Dublin City includes Dublin Zoo and Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the President of Ireland, and the suburb of Ashtown. The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as: TDs Elections 2024 general election 2020 general election 2016 general election 2014 by-election Independent TD Patrick Nulty resigned on 24 March 2014. A by-election was held to fill the vacancy on 23 May 2014, on the same da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanchardstown Centre
The Blanchardstown Centre is one of Ireland's two largest shopping complexes, located in Blanchardstown and Coolmine, western suburbs of Dublin, Ireland. It opened in October 1996 and was extended in 2004 to create extra retail space. It lies in the administrative area of Fingal County Council. The Blanchardstown Centre has an annual footfall of 16.5 million, and is served by over 600 bus movements per day, and is close to Dublin's M50 radial motorway, and adjacent to the M3 motorway. In June 2016 the centre was sold to the Blackstone Group by Green Property for an estimated €950m, making it the most expensive property ever sold in Ireland; Blackstone in turn sold it to Goldman Sachs, who put it back on the market mid-2023. Stores The centre contains over 180 stores, including banking outlets and dining facilities, three retail parks and 7,000 free car parking spaces. The anchor stores in the shopping centre itself include Dunnes, Penney's, and Marks and Spencer. A for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingal County Council
Fingal County Council () is the local authority of the county of Fingal, Ireland. It is one of three local authorities that succeeded the former Dublin County Council on abolition on 1 January 1994 and is one of four local authorities in County Dublin. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transport, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 40 elected members. Elections are held every five years on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). The head of the council has the title of Mayor. The county administration is headed by a chief executive, AnnMarie Farrelly. The county town is Swords. History The council of the electoral county of Dublin—Fingal was established in 1985 with 24 members. Its members also sat as members of Dublin County Council. At the 1991 local election, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleknock (barony)
The barony of Castleknock ( meaning "Cnucha's Castle") is one of the Barony (Ireland), baronies of Ireland. Originally part of the Lordship of Meath, it was then constituted as part of County Dublin. Today, it is in the modern Counties of Ireland, county of Fingal, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The barony was originally also a feudal title, which became one of the subsidiary titles of the Viscounts Gormanston. History The barony was created by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, as his own feudal barony, to be held directly from himself (his vassals were commonly called "De Lacy's Barons"). The first vassal was Hugh Tyrrel in 1177 in Ireland, 1177. It was held for three and a half knight's fees, owed to the superior Lord of Fingal. The title and lands of Castleknock were held by the Tyrell family until 1370 when Robert Tyrell, the eighth Baron and his wife died of the Plague (disease), plague, leaving two daughters and co-heiresses, Joan and Matilda. The lands later passed to the Viscou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clonsilla
Clonsilla () is a northwestern suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Clonsilla (civil parish), Clonsilla is also a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in the Barony (Ireland), barony of Castleknock (barony), Castleknock in the traditional County Dublin. Location and access Clonsilla used to be a small village in the inner western part of County Dublin, but it is now a large residential suburban area, with Ongar, Dublin, Ongar and other localities developing their own subsidiary identities. Clonsilla is roughly equidistant from Blanchardstown and Castleknock. History Clonsilla used to be home to horse studs including the Ongar, Dublin, Ongar stud owned by Prince Aly Khan and his then-wife Rita Hayworth. In the late 20th and early 21st century, there was significant residential housing development in Clonsilla, including several new housing estates which were built between 1990 and 2005. As a result, the population of the area rose over the same period ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrellstown
Tyrrelstown () is a townland in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland, in the civil parish of Mulhuddart. It is located 13 km northwest of the city of Dublin, and is often considered as part of the greater Blanchardstown area. It is the site of a planned suburban development from the early 2000s. It is in the Dublin postal district of Dublin 15. Location Tyrrelstown is located south of Bellingsmore, north of Mulhuddart, west of Cruiserath and lies between the N3 and the M2. Located nearby is Damastown Industrial Estate, one of Dublin's largest industrial estates, which includes a major IBM campus, employing over 4,000 people. In Cruiserath, also nearby, there are premises for the pharmaceutical corporation Bristol Myers Squibb, while beyond is Blanchardstown Corporate Park which features offices belonging to PayPal and Ask.Com. History Tyrrelstown (often also spelt as Tyrellstown or Tyrrellstown) derives its name from that of the Tyrrell family, including Hugh Tyrrel, who wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, part of the Wicklow Mountains range. Dublin is the largest city by population on the island of Ireland; at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, the city council area had a population of 592,713, while the city including suburbs had a population of 1,263,219, County Dublin had a population of 1,501,500. Various definitions of a metropolitan Greater Dublin Area exist. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixth largest in Western Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ongar, Dublin
Ongar is a western suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Developed on a greenfield basis since 2001, it comprises the townlands of Castaheany (northerly) and "Hansfield or Phibblestown" (southerly), within the ancient Barony of Castleknock, County Dublin. It is close to Castleknock, Blanchardstown and Clonsilla. The development has a number of amenities on the main street, there are several schools in the area, and the nearby railway line at Hansfield railway station connects to the Green Line (Luas), Luas Green Line and ultimately the N3 road (Ireland), N3 national route / M3 motorway. Employers in the nearby business parks and Greater Blanchardstown include Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Kepak and eBay. History The area was a new build, developing the lands of the stud farm called Ongar House (named for Ongar, Essex), once the residence of Hollywood star Rita Hayworth and her husband Aly Khan, Prince Aly Khan. Another part of the area covers the farm and lands belonging to Phibblest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin 15
Dublin 15, also rendered as D15, is a List of Dublin postal districts, postal district in the suburbs of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is west of the General Post Office, Dublin, GPO in Dublin city. Geography and political subdivisions Dublin 15 covers a large area, rising from the River Liffey to at the townland of Cloghran near the Rosemount Business Park. The district is bordered by County Meath to the west and the north-west and by the Ratoath Road to the north-east. The land between the Ratoath Road / Cappagh Road and the M2 / N2 road (Ireland), N2 road lies in the Dublin 11 postal district. The townland of Ashtown, Dublin, Ashtown and the boundary walls of the Phoenix Park is the district's eastern boundary. The Liffey forms the southern limit with the anomalous exception of that part of Dublin 20 that contains the village of Chapelizod. Dublin 15 lies primarily within the Counties of Ireland, county of Fingal. Administrative offices of Fingal County Council a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fingal
Fingal ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three successor counties to County Dublin, which was disestablished for administrative purposes in 1994. Its name is derived from the medieval territory of Scandinavian foreigners () that settled in the area. Fingal County Council is the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority for the county. In 2022 the population of the county was 330,506, making it the second most populated council in Dublin and the third most populous county in the state. Geography and subdivisions Fingal is one of three counties into which County Dublin was divided in 1994. Swords, County Dublin, Swords is the county town. The other large urban centre is Blanchardstown. Smaller towns include Balbriggan and Malahide. Suburban villages with extensive housing include Baldoyle, Castleknock, Howth ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M50 Motorway (Ireland)
The M50 motorway () is a C-shaped orbital Controlled-access highway, motorway in Dublin and the busiest motorway in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The current route was built in various sections over the course of 27 years, from 1983 to 2010. It begins at Dublin Port, running northward through the Dublin Port Tunnel and along a portion of the Airport Motorway. It then turns west at its junction with the M1 Motorway (Republic of Ireland), M1, circling the northern, western and southern suburbs of Dublin, before merging with the N11 road (Ireland), M11 at Shankill, Dublin, Shankill in South East Dublin. The road forms part of European route E01. An orbital motorway for Dublin was first proposed in the Dublin Transportation Study of 1971. Construction began on the first section, the Western Parkway (J6-J11) in 1987, and opened to traffic in 1990. This was followed by the Northern Cross Route (J3-J6) in 1996, the Southern Cross Route (J11-J13) in 2001, and the Southeastern Motorway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleknock
Castleknock () is an affluent village in County Dublin, Ireland, located west of the centre of Dublin city. It is in the modern county of Fingal. In addition to the village, the name "Castleknock" also refers to older units of land division: a townland, a civil parish and a barony. Etymology In a poem relating to the earliest centuries after Christ, the origin of the name Cnucha is connected with Conn of the Hundred Battles, and the name is said to have been borne by his foster mother: — As the word ''Castle'' did not come into use in Ireland until Norman times we know that '' Castleknock'' is a name of comparatively recent origin. Documents from the 12th and 13th centuries refer to the place as Castrum Cnoc, simply Cnoc and also Chastel-cnoc or Castel-Cnoc. So it seems that the name Castleknock is rooted in the topography of the hill or ''cnoc'' located at the centre of the modern neighbourhood and/or the personal name of the mother of a semi-legendary High King i.e. ''Cn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
