Greenhills, Dublin

Greenhills (Irish: Na Glaschnoic)[1] is a suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between Kimmage, Tallaght, Templeogue, Terenure and Walkinstown, and includes the residential developments of Greenhills Estate, Greenpark, Limekiln Estate and Temple Manor. Greenhills is in the Dublin 12 postal area.

For other uses of Greenhills, see Greenhills (disambiguation).

Name and history

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

Greenhills may have housed settlements since at least the Bronze 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 the National Museum of Ireland.

However, the area was mostly farmland until expansion in the 1950s and 1960s, when new housing estates were built.

Facilities

Tymon Park is situated in the old townland of Greenhills and is located to the south of the Limekiln estate. It is administered by South Dublin County Council.[4] The River Poddle and connected artificial ponds are features within the park. The M50 motorway 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 for association football.[5]

The Church of the Holy Spirit is the local Roman Catholic church. It has a verdigris copper roof.[6] The church stands beside a community 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] Riverview Educate Together National School opened on Limekiln Road in 2016.[9] Secondary schools include St. Paul's Secondary (girls) and Greenhills College VEC (boys). Greenhills College also provides Post Leaving Certificate and adult education courses. The local scout group is the 65th Greenhills.

Communications
Walkinstown Roundabout

The Walkinstown Roundabout, or Walkinstown Cross, is a junction which serves seven local roads - the Greenhills Road into Tallaght, Ballymount Road towards Ballymount and the M50, Walkinstown Avenue towards Ballyfermot, Walkinstown Road towards Drimnagh, Cromwellsfort Road towards Kimmage and Crumlin, Bunting Road towards Crumlin and St. Peter's Road towards Greenhills and Templeogue.

The area is served by Dublin Bus routes 9, 15A, 27, 77A, 77X, and Nitelink 77N.[10]

Sport

The former Irish international football manager, Brian Kerr, lives in Greenhills, having been brought up close-by in Drimnagh. Michael Carruth, a gold-medal winner in the welterweight boxing division at the 1992 Summer Olympics, is from the area.[11]

Association football is one of the main sports in the area, through clubs such as Greenhills FC and Manortown United, while Gaelic football is also played, with clubs such as Crumlin GAA, Robert Emmets GAC, St. Jude's (Templeogue), Faughs (Templeogue) and St. James Gaels. Community Games athletics and rounders are 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

Greenhills is in the north-west of the South Dublin County Council area, and in local government elections is part of the Templeogue-Terenure local electoral area.

Greenhills is part of the Dublin South-West Dáil constituency. Since the 2016 Irish general election, the Teachtaí Dála for the area are Paul Murphy (Anti-Austerity Alliance), Sean Crowe (Sinn Féin), Colm Brophy (Fine Gael), John Lahart (Fianna Fáil) and Katherine Zappone (independent).[14]

References
  1. "Na Glaschnoic / Greenhills". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. The Geological Heritage of South Dublin County (PDF). southdublindevplan.ie (Report). South Dublin County Council. 2014. p. 67. Retrieved 17 July 2019. 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. Royal Irish Academy. 5: 338–347. JSTOR 20490551.
  4. "Tymon Regional Park". sdublincoco.ie. South Dublin County Council. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007.
  5. "Greenhills Boys AFC". soccer-ireland.com. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  6. "Our Church - The Roof". holyspiritparishgreenhills.ie. Holy Spirit Parish. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  7. "Community Centres - Greenhills Community Centre". sdcc.ie. South Dublin County Council. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  8. "About - History". holyspiritsps.ie. Holy Spirit Senior Primary School. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  9. "Riverview Educate Together - Home". rvetns.ie. Riverview Educate Together National School. Retrieved 17 July 2019. Founded in 2016 Riverview Educate Together is a growing and developing school established [at] Limekiln Rd, Walkinstown, Dublin 12
  11. "Olympic Champion, Michael Carruth, hoping to follow in his father's coaching footsteps". theliberty.ie. The Liberty. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  12. "Limekiln scoop fifth National title this year". echo.ie. 11 September 2015.
  13. "Olympian Gymnastics". olypiangymnastics.com. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  14. "Dublin South-West Dáil Eireann". whoismytd.com. WhoIsMyTD. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019.

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