Greenhill is an inner-urban district of

Swansea Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of ...

, lying immediately north of the

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around the junction of the

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, A4118 and B4489 roads. The Greenhill area was the focus of large-scale Irish immigration in the second half of the 19th century – especially following the Great Famine – and from that period date the foundation of Greenhill's Roman Catholic Junior School and that of Saint Joseph's church, designed by the firm of Pugin & Pugin and consecrated in 1888, and which, from 1987, become the present-day Cathedral Church of Saint Joseph. Greenhill contains Griffith John Street which is close to the site of the birthplace of Christian missionary to China, Griffith John.Rob Sheffield (2023). ''Pieces of Us: The Rise, Decline and Future of a Welsh Neighbourhood''. Cambria Books. p. 12. The combined effects of

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schemes, damage to housing from wartime aerial bombardment in the

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, and post-war road improvement measures have led to some loss of identity for this once very densely occupied part of Swansea, to the extent that many locals now identify it simply as a part of the area lying to its immediate north and known as Brynmelyn ( Welsh: "yellow hill"), after Bryn-Melyn Street, which traverses it. Note that Brynmelyn should not be confused with "Brynmelin", sometimes offered as a Welsh-language translation of Brynmill, which is an entirely different district of Swansea. Among nearby places are Cwmbwrla, Hafod,

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, and Mayhill.

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