Terenure
| Terenure Irish: Tír an Iúir | |
| County Dublin | |
|---|---|
 Terenure College | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | O143301 |
| Location: | 53°18’35"N, 6°17’1"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dublin / South Dublin |
| Dáil constituency: |
Dublin Bay South |
Terenure is a mainly residential suburb of the conurbation centred on Dublin, within County Dublin.
The name of the place is believed to be from the Irish Tír an Iúir, meaning 'Land of the yew tree'.[1] It was originally though called Roundtown,
History
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Terenure, Drimnagh and Kimmage, on the south side of Dublin City, were given to the Barnewell family by King John in 1215. The Barnewells gave some of the land to St John The Baptist Hospital outside Newgate, and Oliver Cromwell confiscated the remainder from them. Terenure passed through the hands of various owners since then, including what is now Terenure College (bought by the Carmelites in 1860). In the seventeenth century, the main landowners were the Deane family, whose most notable member was Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer; his estates later passed to the Bourne family. Fortfield House was built around 1785 by a later Chief Baron Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore. It was later owned by John Hatchell, the Attorney General for Ireland and passed by inheritance to the Perrin family. It was demolished in 1934.
The earliest reference to these areas can be found in Grant CCA-DCc-ChAnt/C/1206, a document in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, by which King Henry II granted the lands Terenure and Kimmage (Cheming) in Rathfarnham to Walter the goldsmith ('aurifauber') in 1175. It has not yet been established how the lands reverted to the crown within 40 years.
On 2 January 1941, during Second World War, the German Luftwaffe bombed Terenure, injuring seven people and destroying two houses.[2]
Church and synagogue
- Roman Catholic: St Joseph; an impressive edifice with a stained glass window by Harry Clarke. St Joseph's Sschool is on the church grounds.
- Terenure Synagogue, Dublin's main synagogue (Orthodox), on Rathfarnham Road.[3]
Ulysses
Terenure Cross (also known as Vaughan's Corner after the pub here) was at one time a terminus for the Dublin tramways, and this is mentioned James Joyce's Ulysses (Episode 7, Aeolus).
Sport
- Rugby: Terenure College RFC
- Football: Terenure Rangers FC[4]
Terenure Sports Club is also in Terenure.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Terenure) |
References
- ↑ "Tír an Iúir". Placenames Database of Ireland. Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. 2008. http://www.logainm.ie/?text=Terenure&placeID=55993.
- ↑ Quigley, Capt. A.A. (1 June 1996). "The Day they bombed Dublin". Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-day-they-bombed-dublin-1.54917.
- ↑ Jewish Ireland
- ↑ Terenure Rangers FC
- ↑ Terenure Sports Club
