Aylesbury is a housing development in
Tallaght
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Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
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Aylesbury was built in the 1970s in the area historically known as Old Bawn and although
Old Bawn
Oldbawn (or Old Bawn, ) is a small suburban area now within Tallaght on Dublin's southside. Formerly a small village in its own right, it is situated between Sean Walsh Park and the River Dodder.
A bawn is the defensive wall surrounding an Iri ...
still exists Aylesbury is now the larger settlement. The local
church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
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St Martin de Porres, opened on 9 December 1976. Both the church and the Tymon Bawn Community Centre separate Aylesbury from the south part of Old Bawn.
Aylesbury has a local shopping centre and a medical clinic. It is also home to the 125th Old Bawn/Aylesbury Scout Group.
It has two Gaelic football fields and two soccer pitches used by Thomas Davis GAA, Oldbury FC, Aylesbury AFC and Old Bawn FC.
It has a community centre (Tymon Bawn Community Centre).
Dublin Bus routes 49 (The Square - Pearse Street) and 65b (Citywest - Poolbeg Street) serve Aylesbury
Estates
The estates in Aylesbury are:
*Carrigmore
*Pineview
*Dalepark Road (houses on this road)
*Heatherview
*Parkwood (said by some to be in Old Bawn)
*Church Grove (houses on this road)
*Pairc Gleann Trasna – Over Valley Park (houses on this road)
*Kiltipper
References
Tallaght
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