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Drumcondra (Irish: Droim Conrach, meaning 'Conra's Ridge') is a residential area and inner suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It is administered by Dublin City Council. The River Tolka and the Royal Canal flow through the area.

Drumcondra Droim Conrach
Inner suburb
Drumcondra Road Lower
Drumcondra Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53.368°N 6.256°W / 53.368; -6.256
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	Dublin
Local authority	Dublin City Council
Elevation	25 m (82 ft)
Population  (2006)[1]
• Urban	8,637
Irish Grid Reference	O158368

History

The village of Drumcondra was the central area of the civil parish of Clonturk, and the two names were used equally for the religious and civil parishes, but the modern suburban district of Drumcondra also encompasses the old Parish of St. Mary. Clonturk had been an alternative name for Drumcondra and the wider area for some time.[2]

The Cat and Cage Pub, on the corner of Drumcondra Road and Church Avenue,[3] was the site of an old postal stop and the point at which rebels, during the 1798 rebellion, seized a postal cart in order to signal to others in North County Dublin to revolt.

The southern stretch of the Slige Midluachra passed through Drumcondra and on into the City where it crossed the Liffey at a location known as the "ford of the hurdles". The present-day Drumcondra main road is built on top of the exact route the ancient highway took, the road was one of five ancient roads to meet at Tara, albeit in myth only; in reality, the five roads may have met at a point on the River Liffey in Dublin.

The Richmond Road connects Fairview with Drumcondra on the northern side of the River Tolka and was laid out to provide access to Drumcondra Castle. The thoroughfare was a laneway until reputedly a jeweller and merchant called Francis Jacob Grose built a house called Richmond House in the mid-1700s,[4] from which the road is thought to take its name. His house was on the site now occupied by St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview. Kingston suggests that he named his house for Richmond, London. Grose's son was the antiquarian, Francis Grose, who is buried at Drumcondra Church.[3] Richmond House was bought by the Daughters of Charity and incorporated into St Vincent's.[4]

Local government and subdivisions

The Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and Glasnevin Township Act 1878 was a local act of the Westminster Parliament, sponsored by businessmen in Drumcondra, and created a township called Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin, encompassing Drumcondra and the neighbouring districts of Clonliffe and Glasnevin, governed by a body of town commissioners.[5] The portion of the district electoral division of Drumcondra outside the township was renamed Drumcondra Rural. The Dublin Corporation Act 1900 absorbed the township into the county borough of Dublin as the wards of Drumcondra and Glasnevin.[6][7] Part of Drumcondra Rural district electoral division was transferred to the city in 1931.[8] The remainder was split into Drumcondra Rural Number One and Drumcondra Rural Number Two in 1971.[9]

Transport

• The district is served by Drumcondra railway station, on the main Drumcondra road. The station initially opened on 1 April 1901 but closed on 1 December 1910[10] with the termination of Kingsbridge (now Heuston Station) to Amiens Street (now Connolly Station) services. Part of the original building was demolished in late 1918. It reopened on 2 March 1998 as a station on the Maynooth/Longford commuter line.
• Many Dublin Bus routes serve the Drumcondra area, including the 1, 11, 13, 16, 33, 41 and 41C. In addition, the Aircoach express coach service to Dublin Airport stops at the railway station.

Features

One of the main sights of Dublin is Croke Park, where Ireland's national games of Gaelic football and hurling may be seen. It has a capacity of 82,300 people, it is one of the largest sports stadiums in Europe.[11] 'Croker' (as it is colloquially known) is the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association and also houses the official GAA Museum (on St Josephs Avenue, which is off Clonliffe Road).[12] The stadium hosts the finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. The stadium is a 20-minute walk from Dublin city centre or a 5-minute bus ride.

Fagan's Public House, Drumcondra Road Lower, where Bertie Ahern took U.S. President Bill Clinton in September 1998. Kennedys Pub on Lower Drumcondra Road is one of the oldest pubs in Drumcondra, predating Fagans by a number of years. Formerly called McPhillips, it has been named Kennedys since 1961.^{[citation needed]}

Tolka Park, the home of League of Ireland side Shelbourne, is situated on Richmond Road.^{[citation needed]}

The National Council for the Blind at Whitworth Road, is located near the Church of St. George cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

Notable buildings

Belvedere House

Formerly the home of the Coghill family, this Georgian building became the residence of the Superior General of the Irish Christian Brothers, and a training centre for the order, in 1874. The house was bought by the Coghills in the early 1700s when the house was known as Drishogue.[3] In 1881, the Congregation bought and moved to Marino House, and sold Belvedere House to Cardinal Cullen, and St Patrick's College, Dublin was established shortly afterwards, with the house becoming the college president's residence, until St. Patrick's incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Clonturk House

Clonturk House was built in 1830, on Ormond Road, by the City Architect. Renovated in 1880, the stone balustrades from James Gandons Carlisle Bridge (O'Connell Bridge) were moved to Clonturk by its owner.[3] It was run by the Presbyterian Church as accommodation for girls attending school until 1960, when it became part of St. Josephs School for the Blind when it was used as a home for blind men.^{[citation needed]} Thomas Dudley ("Bang Bang") was cared for by the Rosminians in Clonturk House.^{[citation needed]}

Drumcondra Castle

Originally the site of an Elizabethan castle built circa 1560, the castle was built by Meath man James Bathe on ecclesiastical land (belonging to the Priory of the Holy Trinity), granted to him. It was owned for many years by the Bathe family. In 1591, when the Castle was the residence of Sir William Warren, who had married the widow of John Bathe, thus acquiring the lands in Drumcondra for his lifetime. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone married his third wife Mabel Bagenal here after he had eloped with her.[13]

In 1677, James II granted the Drumcondra property to a Giles Martin and in 1703 it was purchased by Captain Chichester Philips. In 1870 it became St. Joseph's Asylum for the Male Blind when the Carmelites bought the lands of Drumcondra Castle.[14][15] The Rosminians were appointed by the Archbishop of Dublin to run services for the Blind in St. Joseph's, Drumcondra, Dublin in 1955, the School, and since 2012 it is known as ChildVision, in 2014 the Rosminian order sold the lands in St. Joseph's, but took out a 25-year lease on the houses and buildings which it will use for ChildVision.[16] The Grace Park Woods housing estate is being built on the former St. Joseph's lands.

Drumcondra House

Drumcondra House was purchased by Rev. John Hand and in 1842 All Hallows College was established.[15] Daniel O'Connell played a part in the purchase of Drumcondra House for All Hallows, from Dublin Corporation. Designed by the architect Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and was built in 1726 for Sir Marmaduke Coghill, from the nearby Belvedere House. The Cogills rented out the house for a time.[3] All Hallows was sold to Dublin City University by the Vincentian Order in 2016.

Hampton Lodge/Carmelite Convent

For 150 years Hampton House and its lands held the Carmelite Monastery of the Incarnation on Grace Park Road, housing members of this enclosed order of nuns. The order, which had been based in Blanchardstown, purchased Hampton House and moved in during 1858.[17] Prior to it being a convent, Hampton Lodge was the residence of Thomas Williams, the first secretary of the Bank of Ireland, and his wife Mary Ann Williams; their son Richard Williams lived in Drumcondra Castle. The land and buildings were sold by the order in 2016 and were redeveloped as houses and a nursing home.^{[citation needed]}

Distillery

A distillery, the Dublin Whiskey Distillers (D.W.D.), was founded in the 1870s on the banks of the River Tolka, and known as the Jones Road Distillery (Distillery Road is a continuation of Jones Road). The distillery closed in 1946 and the property was sold. A number of buildings were built and are still standing and a number of buildings although redeveloped retain the names connected with the distillery such as The Corn Mill, The Granary, The Grainstore and Distillery Lofts.

Education

Primary schools

• Drumcondra N.S. (for boys and girls), Church Avenue, Church Of Ireland.
• St Patrick's N.S. (for boys), Roman Catholic, parish of Drumcondra.
• Corpus Christi N.S. (for girls), Home Farm Road, Roman Catholic, parish of Drumcondra.
• St. Joseph's School For Children with a Visual Impairment, (for boys and girls), Roman Catholic, parish of Drumcondra.[18]

Secondary schools

• Dominican College Griffith Avenue (Girls)
• PobalScoil Rosmini (mixed)
• Maryfield College (Girls)

Third level

Two campuses of Dublin City University are located in Drumcondra:

• All Hallows College
• St Patrick's College, Dublin

Religion

The oldest church in the district is Drumcondra Church (Church of Ireland), located at the end of Church Avenue, abutting All Hallows College. Several notable people including Georgian-period architect James Gandon are buried in the adjoining graveyard.

The "Old Church of St. George" was built about 1668 in Lower Temple Street (changed to Hill Street in the 1800s), then a part of Drumcondra. The Tower of the Old Church of St. George can still be seen in Hill Street and its gravestones are around the walls of what is now a playground.[19][20][21][22][23]

The "New Church of St. George" was built on the square further up the road at the end of Temple Street in the early 1800s. The original site acquired for the new church was on Whitworth Road, but then the present site was selected, which at the time was open fields. A temporary chapel was built on the Whitworth Road site and its churchyard was retained when St. George's was completed - this site was later taken over by the Whitworth Hospital (later named Drumcondra Hospital). The gravestones can be seen behind the hospital.[24][25]

Drumcondra is a parish in the Fingal South West deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, served by the Church of Corpus Christi at Home Farm Road. The palace of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin is situated alongside Clonliffe College (the diocesan seminary). Together they occupy an extensive site bounded by Clonliffe Road and the Drumcondra Road (to the South and West) with the River Tolka at the northern extremity.

The Respond! Housing Association has its Dublin office located in High Park, Drumcondra, where it also runs training courses in Housing and Social care provision.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Ukrainian Church in Ireland of Bishop Nicholas the Miracle Worker) hold services in Holy Cross College, Clonliffe.[26]

Graveyards/Cemeteries

There are a number of small burial places in the Drumcondra area

• All Hallows College Cemetery
• Cemetery of the Carmelite Monastery of the Incarnation, Hampton, Drumcondra.
• Drumcondra Church Graveyard
• St. George Burial ground, Drumcondra Hospital Whitworth Road
• High Park, Graveyard
• St. Joseph's Cemetery (Rosminians), Grace Park Road.

Sport

Drumcondra is home to Croke Park and Tolka Park soccer stadium, the permanent home of Shelbourne F.C. since 1989, 'The Reds' have hosted major European clubs such as Panathinaikos and Steaua Bucharest in the Drumcondra venue. The club has won the league six times and the FAI Cup four times since moving to Tolka Park. The park was also the base for Drumcondra F.C. (Drums) which was a League of Ireland club from 1928 to 1972 before it was merged with fellow Dublin club Home Farm, now based in nearby Whitehall. Drumcondra FC, who played their home games at Tolka Park stadium, was a successful side in the post World War II years, winning five Irish league titles between 1948 and 1965 as well as competing in the European Cup and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup on several occasions.[27]

The name lives on today in the shape of Drumcondra FC.[27]

The Ierne Sports and Social Club is situated off Grace Park Road, Rosmini Gaels (GAA) is also based in Drumcondra.

Notable people

• Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach
• Sarah Atkinson, writer and philanthropist, lived for thirty years on Drumcondra Hill[28]
• William Bathe SJ, the Jesuit priest, musicologist and writer, was born in Drumcondra Castle.
• Dermot Bannon, Architect on RTE 'Room to Improve', lives in Drumcondra.
• Dermot Bolger, writer
• Brendan Bracken, British wartime cabinet member, lived for part of his childhood in area.
• Nevill Coghill, Victoria Cross recipient[29]
• Emmet Dalton, soldier and film producer[30]
• Eamon Dunphy, football player and broadcaster, lived on Richmond Road.
• Gabriel Fallon, Abbey actor
• Michael Feeney Callan, writer[31]
• Charles Franklin, motorcycle racer and designer [32]
• Orla Gartland, popular singer[33]
• Aidan Gillen, actor
• Alan Glynn, writer[34]
• Eoin Hand, football player and manager
• Paul Harrington, Lyricist and singer, Eurovision winner.
• Michael Holohan, composer, member and former chair of Aosdána.
• James Joyce, writer, lived for a time on Millbourne Avenue.
• Richard Kirwan, scientist
• Nuala McGovern, broadcaster/journalist
• Seán O'Casey, playwright
• Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986), Irish socialist republican revolutionary, lived at 174 Upper Drumcondra Road
• Mary O'Kelly de Galway an Irish Belgian resistance operative, grew up in Waterfall Cottage, Richmond Road
• Fintan O'Toole, journalist
• Rejjie Snow, rapper
• Thomas Tickell, poet

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland
• Drumcondra Hospital
• St. Anne's Road Pocket Park

Nearby areas

References

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- [en] Drumcondra, Dublin

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[ru] Драмкондра (Дублин)

Драмко́ндра (Драмконрат; англ. Drumcondra, Drumconrath; ирл. Droim Conrach, Дримь-Конрах) — городской район Дублина в Ирландии, находится в северной части административного графства Дублин (провинция Ленстер), недалеко от центра города.

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