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Santry (Irish: Seantrabh, meaning 'old tribe') is a suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin, Kilmore and Ballymun. It straddles the boundary of Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council jurisdictions.
The character of the area has changed in the last 100 years, from a district centred on a large estate, and later a small village, to a modern, rather dispersed, mixed-use suburb. Much of the old village is gone and where there were once fields full of crops, and wild woodlands of all sorts, there are now housing estates, an athletics stadium, a shopping complex, industrial parks, and busy roads leading to Dublin Airport which is nearby.
Trinity College Library has a depository at Santry which holds three million books.
Santry is also the name of a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock.
Santry is an anglicisation of the Irish placename Seantrabh (IPA: [ˈʃanˠt̪ˠɾˠaw], approximately SHAN-trav) meaning "old tribe" with the name referenced as far back as 828 AD. The Great Book of Lecan refers to a tribe called the Almanii who inhabited the area, which may have been the source of the name.
During the Viking invasions, Norse farmers are recorded as settling in the north Dublin area, which proved to be good farmland.[citation needed] After this time, people began to refer to the area north of the River Tolka, including from Santry and north to Swords, Lusk, and beyond as "Fingal", which translates as "fair-haired foreigner". The name was confined to songs, poems, folk memory and some antiquarian titles until a re-organisation of local government in the 1990s set up Fingal and Fingal County Council.
In the 12th century, the neighbourhood of Santry was at the hands of Mac Gilla Mocholmog, chief of Fingal, who then established his base in Santry.
About 1170, Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath granted Santry to one of his most trusted lieutenants, Adam de Feypo.[citation needed]
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Santry
Santry (Irish: Seantrabh, meaning 'old tribe') is a suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin, Kilmore and Ballymun. It straddles the boundary of Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council jurisdictions.
The character of the area has changed in the last 100 years, from a district centred on a large estate, and later a small village, to a modern, rather dispersed, mixed-use suburb. Much of the old village is gone and where there were once fields full of crops, and wild woodlands of all sorts, there are now housing estates, an athletics stadium, a shopping complex, industrial parks, and busy roads leading to Dublin Airport which is nearby.
Trinity College Library has a depository at Santry which holds three million books.
Santry is also the name of a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock.
Santry is an anglicisation of the Irish placename Seantrabh (IPA: [ˈʃanˠt̪ˠɾˠaw], approximately SHAN-trav) meaning "old tribe" with the name referenced as far back as 828 AD. The Great Book of Lecan refers to a tribe called the Almanii who inhabited the area, which may have been the source of the name.
During the Viking invasions, Norse farmers are recorded as settling in the north Dublin area, which proved to be good farmland.[citation needed] After this time, people began to refer to the area north of the River Tolka, including from Santry and north to Swords, Lusk, and beyond as "Fingal", which translates as "fair-haired foreigner". The name was confined to songs, poems, folk memory and some antiquarian titles until a re-organisation of local government in the 1990s set up Fingal and Fingal County Council.
In the 12th century, the neighbourhood of Santry was at the hands of Mac Gilla Mocholmog, chief of Fingal, who then established his base in Santry.
About 1170, Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath granted Santry to one of his most trusted lieutenants, Adam de Feypo.[citation needed]
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