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Greenhills, Dublin

Coordinates:53°18′24″N6°19′42″W/ 53.3068°N 6.3282°W/53.3068; -6.3282
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Greenhills(Irish:Na Glaschnoic)[1]is a suburb ofDublininIreland.It is inCounty Dublinand lies betweenKimmage,Tallaght,Ballymount,Templeogue,TerenureandWalkinstown,which the area of Greenhills was historically part of, and includes several residential developments. Greenhills is in theDublin postal districtofDublin 12and thelocal government areaofSouth Dublin.

Name and history[edit]

The area's name comes from the sand-based hills that made up aglacial eskerwhich formed in the area at the end of the Ice Age.[2]

Greenhills may have housed settlements since at least theBronze Age,as an urn dating from that time was found in the area in the late 1890s.[3]Discovered in a former quarry between the Greenhills Road and St. Columba's Road, this urn is now held by theNational Museum of Ireland.However, the area was mostly farmland until expansion in the 1950s and 1960s, when new housing estates were built.[citation needed]

Facilities[edit]

Tymon Parkis partly situated in the old townland of Greenhills and is located to the south of the Limekiln estate. It is administered bySouth Dublin County Council.[4]TheRiver Poddleand connected artificial ponds are features within the park. TheM50motorway splits the Greenhills side of the park from Kilnamanagh and the Tymon North estate (both in Tallaght). A smaller park, Greenhills Park, is also administered by the South Dublin County Council and is used forsoccer.[5]

The Church of the Holy Spirit is the localRoman Catholicchurch. It has averdigriscopper roof.[6]The church stands beside acommunity centre,which has function rooms, and advice, adult education and other services.[7]

Local primary schools include Holy Spirit Junior and Senior Schools which were formed in September 2015 following the amalgamation of St. Paul's Junior and Senior Girl's National Schools, and St. Peter's Boy's National School.[8]RiverviewEducate TogetherNational School opened on Limekiln Road in 2016.[9]Secondary schools include St. Paul's Secondary (girls) and Greenhills College VEC (boys).

Transport[edit]

Walkinstown Roundabout

The Walkinstown Roundabout, or Walkinstown Cross, is a junction which serves six local roads: the Greenhills Road into Tallaght, Ballymount Road towards Ballymount and the M50, Walkinstown Avenue towardsBallyfermot,Walkinstown Road towardsDrimnagh,Cromwellsfort Road towardsKimmageand Crumlin, and St. Peter's Road towards Greenhills andTempleogue.[citation needed]

The area is served byDublin Busroutes 9, 15A, 27, 77A, 77X, Nitelink 77N and 150.[10]

Sport[edit]

The former Irish international football manager,Brian Kerr,lives in Greenhills,[citation needed]having been brought up in nearby Drimnagh.Michael Carruth,a gold-medal winner in the welterweight bo xing division at the1992 Summer Olympics,is from the area.[11]

Socceris one of the main sports in the area, through clubs such as Greenhills FC andManortown United,whileGaelic footballis also played, with clubs such as Crumlin GAA,Robert Emmets GAC,St Jude's GAA(Templeogue), Faughs (Templeogue) andSt. James Gaels.Community Gamesathletics androundersare also played - the latter represented by Limekiln Rounders Club which has won a number of national titles.[12]

Olympian Gymnastics is based in Greenhills at a facility beside the NCT centre.[13]

Administration[edit]

Greenhills is in the northwest ofSouth Dublin,and in elections toSouth Dublin County Councilis part of thelocal electoral areaof Templeogue–Terenure.[needs update]Greenhills is part of theDáil constituencyofDublin South-West.

References[edit]

  1. ^"Na Glaschnoic / Greenhills".logainm.ie.Placenames Database of Ireland.Retrieved15 July2019.
  2. ^The Geological Heritage of South Dublin County(PDF).South Dublin Development Plan(Report). South Dublin County Council. 2014. p. 67.Archived(PDF)from the original on 15 November 2017.Retrieved17 July2019.The Greenhills Esker includes a large accumulation of sands and gravels deposited both under the ice sheet and at its margin as the ice withdrew northwestwards across south Dublin at the end of the last Ice Age [...] Greenhills itself is named after the sand hills that formed the esker
  3. ^G. T. Plunkett (1898). "On a Cist and Urns Found at Greenhills, Tallaght, County Dublin".Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.5.Royal Irish Academy: 338–347.JSTOR20490551.
  4. ^"Tymon Regional Park".South Dublin County Council.Archived fromthe originalon 19 November 2007.
  5. ^"Greenhills Boys AFC".soccer-ireland.Archivedfrom the original on 24 July 2019.Retrieved15 July2019.
  6. ^"Our Church - The Roof".Holy Spirit Parish, Greenhills.Archivedfrom the original on 14 November 2017.Retrieved17 July2019.
  7. ^"Community Centres - Greenhills Community Centre".South Dublin County Council.Archivedfrom the original on 24 May 2019.Retrieved7 November2019.
  8. ^"About - History".Holy Spirit Senior Primary School.Archivedfrom the original on 17 July 2019.Retrieved17 July2019.
  9. ^"Riverview Educate Together - Home".Riverview Educate Together National School.Archivedfrom the original on 17 July 2019.Retrieved17 July2019.Founded in 2016 Riverview Educate Together is a growing and developing school established [at] Limekiln Rd, Walkinstown, Dublin 12
  10. ^*Route 9Archived2012-05-07 at theWayback MachineDublin Bus. Retrieved: 2014-04-30.
  11. ^"Olympic Champion, Michael Carruth, hoping to follow in his father's coaching footsteps".theliberty.ie.The Liberty. 21 October 2014.Archivedfrom the original on 17 July 2019.Retrieved17 July2019.
  12. ^"Limekiln scoop fifth National title this year".echo.ie.11 September 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 15 July 2019.Retrieved15 July2019.
  13. ^"Olympian Gymnastics".Archivedfrom the original on 12 July 2019.Retrieved15 July2019.

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