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Balgriffin
Balgriffin (Irish: Baile Ghrífín, meaning "Griffin's town") is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies on the administrative boundary between Dublin City and Fingal in County Dublin.
Balgriffin is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock.
Balgriffin is situated approximately 8 km (4.97 mi) from Dublin city centre. It is a civil parish of 540 acres in the barony of Coolock. For elections to Dáil Éireann, it is in the Dáil constituency of Dublin Bay North. It is in the Dublin 13 postal district.
The area's local government administration is divided between Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council.
The two main branches of the Mayne River (sometimes referred to as the "Moyne"), the Turnapin Stream and the Cuckoo Stream, run through the plains of the district, picking up smaller streams. The Turnapin flows in the southern part of the area, coming from the old Belcamp Estate and running north of the main Belmayne development, while the Cuckoo comes east near Limekiln Lane and forms the northern boundary of the Fingal Burial Ground. Flooding sometimes hits Limekiln Lane. The Turnapin and the Cuckoo merge in eastern Balgriffin and the Mayne then flows out to Baldoyle Bay (Balgriffin Road becomes Moyne Road as it approaches the coast).
The hamlet of Balgriffin is served by Balgriffin Road from the east (Portmarnock), the R139 from Dublin Airport and Donaghmede on its southern edge, and by Malahide Road from the north (Kinsealy and Malahide) and south (Dublin city centre, Fairview and Coolock).
Dublin Bus provides the district of Balgriffin with services on the 15, 42 and 43 routes, the cemeteries being served by the 42 and 43.
Balgriffin is an old district that can be found on maps, many held in Dublin City Archive and Dublin County Archive, going back hundreds of years. In 1388 Robert Burnell, judge of the Court of Exchequer, was lord of the manor of Balgriffin; his descendants who were also lords of the manor of Castleknock, were still at Balgriffin in the seventeenth century. Historically, it has remained as a lightly settled area of fields with a hamlet at a crossroads, at which now stands an 18th-century public house, some cottages, a village green and hall, and two cemeteries – the older of which is to the west, the newer, civic, one to the east. In 1542, Henry VIII granted Conn Bacach O'Neill an estate in Balgriffin as a part of the settlement of surrender and regrant that granted the former King of Tir Eoghan the new titled of Earl of Tyrone.
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Balgriffin
Balgriffin (Irish: Baile Ghrífín, meaning "Griffin's town") is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies on the administrative boundary between Dublin City and Fingal in County Dublin.
Balgriffin is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock.
Balgriffin is situated approximately 8 km (4.97 mi) from Dublin city centre. It is a civil parish of 540 acres in the barony of Coolock. For elections to Dáil Éireann, it is in the Dáil constituency of Dublin Bay North. It is in the Dublin 13 postal district.
The area's local government administration is divided between Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council.
The two main branches of the Mayne River (sometimes referred to as the "Moyne"), the Turnapin Stream and the Cuckoo Stream, run through the plains of the district, picking up smaller streams. The Turnapin flows in the southern part of the area, coming from the old Belcamp Estate and running north of the main Belmayne development, while the Cuckoo comes east near Limekiln Lane and forms the northern boundary of the Fingal Burial Ground. Flooding sometimes hits Limekiln Lane. The Turnapin and the Cuckoo merge in eastern Balgriffin and the Mayne then flows out to Baldoyle Bay (Balgriffin Road becomes Moyne Road as it approaches the coast).
The hamlet of Balgriffin is served by Balgriffin Road from the east (Portmarnock), the R139 from Dublin Airport and Donaghmede on its southern edge, and by Malahide Road from the north (Kinsealy and Malahide) and south (Dublin city centre, Fairview and Coolock).
Dublin Bus provides the district of Balgriffin with services on the 15, 42 and 43 routes, the cemeteries being served by the 42 and 43.
Balgriffin is an old district that can be found on maps, many held in Dublin City Archive and Dublin County Archive, going back hundreds of years. In 1388 Robert Burnell, judge of the Court of Exchequer, was lord of the manor of Balgriffin; his descendants who were also lords of the manor of Castleknock, were still at Balgriffin in the seventeenth century. Historically, it has remained as a lightly settled area of fields with a hamlet at a crossroads, at which now stands an 18th-century public house, some cottages, a village green and hall, and two cemeteries – the older of which is to the west, the newer, civic, one to the east. In 1542, Henry VIII granted Conn Bacach O'Neill an estate in Balgriffin as a part of the settlement of surrender and regrant that granted the former King of Tir Eoghan the new titled of Earl of Tyrone.