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Chapelizod () is a suburban village of
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,
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. It lies in the wooded valley of the
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, near the Strawberry Beds and the
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. The village is associated with Iseult of Ireland and the location of Iseult's chapel. Chapelizod is under the administration of
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.


Location

The
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of Chapelizod is part of the barony of Castleknock. The parish consists of a single
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of the same name. However, 465 acres are within the walls of the
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while the village proper, outside the walls, contains only 67 acres. It is the only parish of the barony that lies outside the territory of the modern
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of
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. Chapelizod forms part of the
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of Ballyfermot–Drimnagh within the
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administrative area.


History

The origins of Chapelizod are obscure. There is evidence of
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settlement between the southern ridge of the
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and the Liffey and several burial mounds exist to the north of the village. Aerial photography has also revealed several prehistoric and
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settlements in the vicinity of the modern village. Aside from these archaeological remains, the etymology of the village indicates an association with Princess Iseult or Isolde from the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Isolde; the village derives its name from a chapel consecrated in her honour. The historical record details the establishment of a manor by Hugh Tyrell after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. In 1177, Tyrell, Baron of Castleknock, granted lands at Kilmainham to the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem ( Knights Hospitallers). The grant included a portion of the land that now makes up Phoenix Park and Chapelizod. In 1200, the land in Chapelizod was leased by King John to Richard De La Field, and was leased by the family for 200 years. During the 1500s, crown yeoman and chief sergeant of County Dublin, Robert Savage, lived in Chapelizod. In the 1600s, Sir John Davies,
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, and Sir Henry Power lived in the area. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the lands reverted to the Crown and from that time onward were used as a Royal seat. This was made explicit by the Duke of Ormonde after he successfully lobbied for the creation of an enclosed deer park outside Dublin in 1662. The King's House, a Royal Residence built by and used as an out-of-town residence by the Viceroy, formerly faced the millrace on the banks of the Liffey. It was used as the royal residence in Ireland until the mid-eighteenth century when the Viceregal Lodge was completed in the Phoenix Park. In 1671, Colonel Richard Lawrence settled a number of
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in the village with the intention of establishing a linen industry (with some success). Later, William III stayed during the Williamite Wars in Ireland, holding court and redressing grievances. During much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Chapelizod was a prosperous village close to the centre of Dublin.


Transport

Chapelizod is served by Dublin Bus route 26 which runs every 10-15 minutes throughout the day. Additionally, routes C5 and C6 run at night with a combined frequency of 30 minutes. The south-western portion of Chapelizod is served by Go-Ahead Ireland route L55 which runs hourly. There are no train or Luas stations in Chapelizod.


Religion


Roman Catholic

Chapelizod is a
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in the Blanchardstown deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. In the 19th century, the
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of Blanchardstown in the
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encompassed much of the area now within the Dublin 15 postal district. Following the relaxation of the Penal Laws, it became possible for Catholics to consider the construction of additional churches and to repair the existing stock of religious buildings. St Brigid's Church Blanchardstown, not to be confused with a church of the
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in nearby Castleknock, was constructed in 1837 upon the foundation of a church that had been built prior to 1731. It is the
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of 12 other churches constituted out of the parish over the following 156 years. Among these was the church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The parish separated from Blanchardstown in 1883. The eastern part of the new parish was, in turn, constituted out of Chapelizod in 1953 as the Navan Road parish of Our Lady Help of Christians.


Church of Ireland

In the
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, St. Laurence's Church, with its 14th-century bell tower, is one of two churches that today form part of the parish of Crumlin, Dublin.


In literature

The village is the setting of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novel '' The House by the Churchyard'' and his short story "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod". The Georgian house, where Le Fanu lived during in his early childhood, stands at the corner of Park Lane. In
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's short story " A Painful Case", published in ''
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'', it is the home of the unsociable protagonist James Duffy, who "lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious". It is the setting—as well as the scene of the home and hostelry of the protagonist Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, and their family Shaun, Shem and Issy—in Joyce's final major work, ''
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''.


Sport

Chapelizod is home to Chapelizod Cricket Club (CCC). CCC have previously won the Kumasi Cup, the Toucan Cup and The Pierre Cup. The Chapelizod Sports Stadium hosted
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from 1949 to 1961 and hosted
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from 1950 to 1961. Chapelizod is also home to Chapelizod F.C., an
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club which won the Sydney Bellow cup and league shield in 2013.


Notable residents

* Garech Browne (1939–2018), art collector * Henry Capell, Baron Capell of Tewkesbury (1638–1696), English politician * Frank Harte (1933–2005), musician, song collector, lecturer. * Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922), newspaper owner * Tim Healy (1855–1931), politician, writer, barrister, first governor-general of the Irish Free State * Delia Murphy (1902–1971), singer and music collector * Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (1814–1873), writer * Karl Shiels (1972–2019), actor * Ian Wiley (b.1968), slalom canoeist


See also

* List of towns and villages in Ireland


References

{{Dublin residential areas Towns and villages in Dublin (city) Civil parishes of the barony of Castleknock