Greenhills (Irish: Na Glaschnoic)[1] is a suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It is in County Dublin and lies between Kimmage, Tallaght, Ballymount, Templeogue, Terenure and Walkinstown, which the area of Greenhills was historically part of, and includes several residential developments. Greenhills is in the Dublin postal district of Dublin 12 and the local government area of South Dublin.

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.[citation needed]

Facilities

Tymon Park is partly 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 soccer.[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).

Transport

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 towards Ballyfermot, Walkinstown Road towards Drimnagh, Cromwellsfort Road towards Kimmage and Crumlin, and St. Peter's Road towards Greenhills and Templeogue.[citation needed]

The area is served by Dublin Bus routes 9, 15A, 27, 77A, 77X, Nitelink 77N and 150.[10]

Sport

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 boxing division at the 1992 Summer Olympics, is from the area.[11]

Soccer 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 GAA (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 northwest of South Dublin, and in elections to South Dublin County Council is part of the local electoral area of Templeogue–Terenure.[needs update] Greenhills is part of the Dáil constituency of Dublin South-West.

References

  1. ^ "Na Glaschnoic / Greenhills". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  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. 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". South Dublin County Council. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007.
  5. ^ "Greenhills Boys AFC". soccer-ireland.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Our Church - The Roof". Holy Spirit Parish, Greenhills. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Community Centres - Greenhills Community Centre". South Dublin County Council. Archived from the original on 24 May 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  8. ^ "About - History". Holy Spirit Senior Primary School. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Riverview Educate Together - Home". Riverview Educate Together National School. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019. Founded in 2016 Riverview Educate Together is a growing and developing school established [at] Limekiln Rd, Walkinstown, Dublin 12
  10. ^ * Route 9 Archived 2012-05-07 at the Wayback Machine Dublin 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. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  12. ^ "Limekiln scoop fifth National title this year". echo.ie. 11 September 2015. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Olympian Gymnastics". Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.

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