Drimnagh

Drimnagh Irish: Droimneach
County Dublin
Our Lady of Good Counsel School, Drimnagh
Location
Grid reference:	O120320
Location:	53°19’35"N, 6°19’8"W
Data
Postcode:	D12
Local Government
Council:	Dublin

Drimnagh is a suburb of Dublin, in County Dublin, situated on the Southside of the city between Walkinstown, Crumlin and Inchicore. It is bordered by the Grand Canal to the north and east.

Drimnagh derives its name from the word druimneach, or country with ridges.

History

A Neolithic settlement discovered, and a funerary bowl found in a burial site. The site was demolished, but the bowl is on view in the National Museum.

The lands of Drimnagh were granted by Richard de Clare (Strongbow) to the Barnwell family, who had arrived in Ireland with Strongbow in 1167 and had settled in Berehaven in Munster. The people of Munster killed the family except for Hugh de Barnwell, and it was this youth who was given Drimnagh as compensation. The lands and castle were considered safe, for they were far enough away from the Dublin mountains which held Irish strongholds.

Drimnagh was farmland until the mid-1930s, when some of the first tenement clearances brought city centre residents from one-room hovels to terraced and semi-detached houses in a series of roads named after the mountain ranges of Ireland. The suburb consists of one area close to Drimnagh Castle and Lansdowne Valley, with three-bedroom private housing built by Associated Properties, and another area (the larger part) built by Dublin Corporation and consisting of three bedroom 'Kitchen Houses' and two bedroom 'Parlour Houses' and bordering the Grand Canal and Crumlin. The two areas meet at the parish church, the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, in the centre of Drimnagh, built in 1943.

Places of interest

• Drimnagh Castle is the only castle in Ireland which still has a moat encircling it, and is one of Dublin's few remaining mediæval castles. It dates from the 12th century and was built by the Barnwell family.
• Mourne Road Church at the centre of Drimnagh.

Sport

• Football:
  • Mourne Celtic
  • Drimnagh Celtic
  • St John Bosco.
• Gaelic Athletics:
  • Good Counsel GAA
  • St James Gaels GAA
• Rugby: Guinness Rugby Football Club
• Boxing: Drimnagh Boxíng Club
• Running: Parkrun every Saturday morning at Brickfield Park.

Outside links

• Drimnagh Residents Associations
• Drimnagh is Good