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Rockbrook
Rockbrook () is a small area, once site of a small settlement, now semi-suburban, in County Dublin, Ireland. It is in the local government area of South Dublin. Location Rockbrook is situated approximately from Templeogue, south of Ballyboden, on the R116 regional road, which is Cruagh Road uphill and Edmondstown Road downhill. The area lies between Edmondstown, Tibradden and Whitechurch, within the civil parish of Whitechurch. The area is traversed by multiple streams within the Owendoher River system, including Glendoo Stream; there were several watermills in the vicinity. Amenities Rockbrook Park School, located in the area, is a fee-paying boys secondary school which had an enrollment 167 as of January 2020. The school is located in Rockbrook House, a former country house built . The ruin of Rockbrook Mill, a paper mill operated by a Quaker Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockbrook Park School
Rockbrook Park School is a fee-paying, secondary school for boys, located on Edmondstown Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, Ireland. It was established by a group of parents, partly inspired by the work of the founder of Opus Dei. History The school was founded in 1971, first as a "pre-university centre" at 144-116 St Stephen's Green, offering repeat Leaving Cert classes for students. In 1972, classes were expanded. Later, in 1975, the school moved to Rockbrook House and surrounding forty acres buying them from John Brown, who was retiring as chief brewer with Guinness and moving back to England. The price paid was £75,000 Irish pounds. In the summer of 1980, five classrooms and a number of small mentoring rooms were added at a cost of £44,000 Irish pounds The pound ( Irish: ) was the currency of Ireland until 2002. Its ISO 4217 code was IEP, and the symbol was £ (or £Ir for distinction.) The Irish pound was replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999. Euro currency did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R116 Road
The R116 road is a regional road in Ireland which runs east–west from the N11 at Loughlinstown to the R115 in Ballyboden. It runs through the South of County Dublin for its entire length. Route The official definition of the R116 from the ''Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012'' Statutory Instrument 54 of 2012 — Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012 ''Irish Statute Book'' (irishstatutebook.ie). Retrieved 2017-02-02. reads: :R116: Ballyboden - Loughlinstown, County Dublin :Between its junction with R115 at Scholarstown Road in the county of South Dublin and its junction with R117 at Kiltiernan in the county of DunLaoghaire — Rathdown via Edmondstown Road and Cruagh in the county of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Dublin
South Dublin () is a county in Ireland, within the province of Leinster and the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three successor counties to County Dublin, which was disestablished for administrative purposes in 1994. South Dublin County Council is the local authority for the county. The county contains both dense suburbs of Dublin and stretches of unpopulated mountains. In 2022 it had a population of 301,705, making it the fourth most populous county in the state. Geography and population South Dublin has an area of , making it the second-largest of the four local government areas in Dublin. It is bounded by Dublin City ( to the northeast), the River Liffey (separating it from Fingal to the north), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (to the east), County Kildare (to the west) and its hills adjoin the mountains of County Wicklow to the south. The county town is Tallaght. Other important centres of population are Lucan and Clondalkin. Much of the county is heavily urbanised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owendoher River
The Owendoher River ( Irish: ''An Dothra Bheag'', i.e. "The Little Dodder") is a small river in southern County Dublin, Ireland, the largest tributary of the River Dodder, and a part of the River Liffey system. Course The Owendoher rises in two main branches. The larger branch flows from Glendoo / Glencullen valley, and meets the second, in turn formed from two streams, one sometimes called Kilakee Stream, from the slopes of Killakee Mountain, and the other Glendoo Stream, from west of Glendoo Mountain. The two branches merge near Rockbrook Cemetery, along with another small stream from Woodbrook and Piperstown, and the Owendoher flows north to Ballyboden, and on to Rathfarnham, receiving the Whitechurch Stream. The Owendoher joins the River Dodder south of Bushy Park near the former settlement of Butterfield, just south west of Rathfarnham village. Sweeney (1991) Doyle (2008) There were historically a number of mills on the Owendoher and its tributaries; none now operate. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Dublin
County Dublin ( or ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, and holds its capital city, Dublin. It is located on the island's east coast, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. Until 1994, County Dublin (excluding the city) was a single Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local government area; in that year, the county council was divided into three new administrative counties: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. The three administrative counties together with Dublin City proper form a NUTS III NUTS statistical regions of Ireland, statistical region of Ireland (coded IE061). County Dublin remains a single administrative unit for the purposes of the courts (including the Dublin County Sheriff, but excluding the bailiwick of the Dublin City Sheriff) and Dublin County combined with Dublin City forms the Judicial County of Dublin, including Dublin Circuit Court, the Dublin County Registrar and the Dublin Metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Ireland
Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. Its capital city, capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island, with a population of over 1.5 million. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a Unitary state, unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the , consists of a lower house, ; an upper house, ; and an elected President of Ireland, president () who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the (prime minister, ), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government In The Republic Of Ireland
The functions of local government in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-one local authorities, termed County, City, or City and County Councils. The principal decision-making body in each of the thirty-one local authorities is composed of the members of the council, elected by universal franchise in local elections every five years from multi-seat local electoral areas using the single transferable vote. Many of the authorities' statutory functions are, however, the responsibility of ministerially appointed career officials termed chief executive (Irish local government), Chief executives. The competencies of the city and county councils include planning, transport infrastructure, sanitary services, public safety (notably fire services) and the provision of public libraries. Each local authority sends representatives to one of three Regional Assemblies in Ireland, Regional Assemblies. Local government in the state is governed by Local Government Acts 1925 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Templeogue
Templeogue is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south. Geography Location Templeogue is from Dublin city centre to the north, from the Wicklow Mountains, Dublin Mountains to the south, and from the coast at Dublin Bay, on the Irish Sea. It is above sea level and occupies an area of . Suburbs adjacent to Templeogue are Ballyroan, Dublin, Ballyroan, Firhouse, Greenhills, Dublin, Greenhills, Kimmage, Knocklyon, Perrystown, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, and Terenure. Transport The three main routes through the suburb are the R112 road (Ireland), R112 regional road (Templeville Road), the R137 road (Ireland), R137 regional road (Templeogue Road), and the R817 road (Ireland), R817 regional road (Cypress Grove Road and Wainsfort Road). The M50 motorway (Ireland), M50 motorway borders the suburb to the west. Dublin Bus operates the following bus routes through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballyboden
Ballyboden () is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham, County Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon. It is in the local government area of South Dublin, and is a townland in the civil parish of Rathfarnham in the barony of Uppercross. Population According to the 2006 census, the electoral division of Ballyboden had a population of about five thousand. This figure was 5,246 in the 2022 census. Religion The Roman Catholic parish of Ballyboden was established in 1973. It is managed by the Order of Saint Augustine. Within the Archdiocese of Dublin, Rathfarnham parish is the parent of several local parishes. To accommodate the increasing need for ministry to the residential development of the Rathfarnham area over the last century, Terenure was developed in 1894, Churchtown (1965), Ballyroan (1968), Tallaght (1972), Ballyboden (1973) and Knocklyon (1974). There had been an Augustinian house of studies in Ballyboden sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Road (Ireland)
A regional road () in the Republic of Ireland is a class of road not forming a major route (such as a national primary road or national secondary road), but nevertheless forming a link in the Roads in Ireland, national route network. There are over 11,600 kilometres (7,200 miles) of regional roads. Regional roads are numbered with three-digit route numbers, prefixed by "R" (e.g. R105 road (Ireland), R105). The equivalent road category in Northern Ireland are Roads in Northern Ireland#"B" roads, B roads. History Until 1977, classified roads in the Republic of Ireland were designated with one of two prefixes: Trunk roads in Ireland, "T" for trunk roads and "L" for link roads. The ''Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974'' authorised the designation of roads as national roads: in 1977, twenty-five national primary roads (N1-N25) and thirty-three national secondary roads (N51-N83) were initially designated under the ''Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Ireland
Civil parishes () are units of territory in the island of Ireland that have their origins in old Gaelic territorial divisions. They were adopted by the Anglo-Norman Lordship of Ireland and then by the Elizabethan Kingdom of Ireland, and were formalised as land divisions at the time of the Plantations of Ireland. They no longer correspond to the boundaries of Roman Catholic or Church of Ireland parishes, which are generally larger. Their use as administrative units was gradually replaced by Poor_law_union#Ireland, Poor Law Divisions in the 19th century, although they were not formally abolished. Today they are still sometimes used for legal purposes, such as to locate property in deeds of property registered between 1833 and 1946. Origins The Irish parish was based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a ''túath'' or ''Trícha cét''. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman barons retained the ''tuath'', later renamed a parish or manor, as a un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
