Beaumont, County Dublin
| Beaumont | |
| County Dublin | |
|---|---|
 Beaumont House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | O171393 |
| Location: | 53°23’28"N, 6°14’28"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | D9 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dublin |
Beaumont is a northside suburb of the City of Dublin, bordered by Donnycarney, Santry and Artane.
Name
The name is derived from the French for "beautiful mount" as the parish is located atop an ascent from Fairview and inspired by its clean air and views across Dublin to the Wicklow Mountains. The name was apparently given by Olivia Whitemore and Arthur Guinness in 1764, as they made their new family home in Beaumont House, a protected structure and can be visited today.[1]
History
Beaumont was originally a farm in the Civil Parish of Coolock, between the townlands of Kilmore Big and Kilmore Little. It is the former home of the Guinness family from 1764-1855. The original 1764 lease between Charles Gardiner and Arthur Guinness can still be seen in the National Library of Ireland. Guinness took 51 acres "more or less situate in the Parish of Coolock" on a lease for the longer of 31 years or three lives, and built a house "at Kilmore" ; it is apparent that he later named the property "Beaumont". His rent was £93 p.a.[2][3]
In 1900 Beaumont House residence was bought by The Sisters of Mercy who opened a convalescent home there to provide aftercare for patients from the Mater Hospital.[4]
RTÉ had a radio transmitter in Thorndale, Beaumont (off Beaumont Road, where Collinswood estate is now), from which from 1982 broadcast RTÉ Radio 2 on 1278 kHz AM to the Dublin region, it ceased broadcasting on December 15, 2003.[5] RTÉ used the Beaumont facility to jam radio signals from pirate radio stations in the 1980s.
About the village
Beaumont is the location of one of Dublin's main hospitals, Beaumont Hospital, and the Sister of Mercy Convalescent Home. Other facilities include a small group of shops and two pubs.
A former home of Arthur Guinness, which he built in 1764 and named Beaumont House from which the area got its name, is also called Guinness House, is now a convalescent home for the elderly, run by the Sisters of Mercy in recent years it has been bought by the HSE; there was an ice house on its lands.
Beaumont is also home to the large modern estates, Beaumont Woods - a recent development which houses Beaumont Medical Centre and is located next to Beaumont Hospital - Collinswood, Elm Mount Estate - built in the 1960s - and Ardmore and Montrose.
Catherine McAuley Park is a small park in the Beaumont Woods, estate dedicated to the Sisters of Mercy founder.
Sport and leisure
The Artane and Beaumont Family Recreation Centre, is a community centre at the junction of Skelly's Lane, and the Kilmore Road, it is used for a variety of social activities, music societies, childcare, afterschool homework club as well as sporting activities such as Basketball, Volleyball and Badminton.
- Football:
- Artane Beaumont Football Club, based at Rockfield Park,[6]
- Celtic Park F.C., based in Beaumont and playing games in Beaumont Woods
- St Kevin's Boys Club
- Elm Mount F.C.
- Others:
- Beaumont Tak Kwon Do Centre
Founded in 1978 in St. Fiacra's School, the 140th Scouts Beaumont, a member of Scouting Ireland is based in Montrose Park.[7]
Beaumont Bridge Club, use the Donnycarney/Beaumont Care Centre, St. John's Court, off the Malahide Road.
References
- ↑ About Beaumont Beaumont Residents Association
- ↑ NLI, Genealogical Office, Gardiner Papers; manuscript 36,578/15. Lease dated 8 May 1764.
- ↑ "Beaumont" is not mentioned as such on John Rocque's 1756 map of Dublin.
- ↑ History Mercy College, Coolock, www.mercycoolock.ie
- ↑ Ireland European MW and LW History, Radio Heritage
- ↑ Artane Beaumont F.C.
- ↑ 140th Beaumont Scouts
