Coill Dubh (; meaning "black wood"), also sometimes known as Blackwood,
County Kildare
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in Ireland
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. It is located at the junction of the R403 and R408 regional roads, about from Dublin
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. Developed as a planned town
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in the 1950s to accommodate Bord na Móna
Bord na Móna (; English: "The Peat Board") is a semi-state company in Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act 1946. The company began developing the peatlands of Ireland with the aim to provide economic benefit for Irish Midland co ...
employees working in the area, it was one of the fastest growing urban areas in Ireland between the 2016 and 2022 census,[
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History
The village was established in 1952, on the townland
A townland (; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a traditional small land division used in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of medieval Gaelic origin, predating the Norman invasion, and mo ...
of Blackwood (''Coill Dubh'' or ''Coill na Cúirte'' in Irish) just off the R403 between Prosperous and Timahoe, to accommodate workers on the Bord na Mona works supplying a peat fired power station in Allenwood. It replaced earlier temporary workers camps at Killinthomas, Mucklon and Timahoe, with 160 houses and several shops. Developed alongside nearby Cooleragh, it was the only large settlement to have been founded in County Kildare during the 20th century.
Responsibility for the maintenance of a number of housing developments in the village transferred to Kildare County Council
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in 2017. Coill Dubh was classified as a "village" in Kildare County Council's 2023-2029 Development Plan.
Sport
The village is home to Coill Dubh GAA
Coill Dubh Hurling Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland, winner of eleven senior hurling championships. Three Coill Dubh players, Seamus Malone, Tony Carew and Tommy Carew were chosen on the Kildare hurli ...
club which, as of 2015, had won the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship
The Kildare Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the UPMC Kildare Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kildare SHC) is an annual club hurling competition organised by the Kildare GAA, Kildare County Board o ...
eleven times. The local association football
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(soccer) club, Coill Dubh AFC, was founded in 1978.
See also
* List of towns and villages in Ireland
Bibliography
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References
{{County Kildare
Towns and villages in County Kildare