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Walkinstown
Walkinstown (Irish: Baile Bhailcín) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, six kilometres southwest of the city centre. It is surrounded by Drimnagh to the north, Crumlin to the east, Greenhills to the south, and Ballymount, Bluebell, and Clondalkin to the west. It lies within the postal district of Dublin 12.
It consists mainly of privately owned housing, with some social housing remaining in the Dublin City Council area between the Walkinstown and Long Mile Roads and Ballymount Lower. It was built as an estate of starter homes after World War II.
Walkinstown has a library, community centre, sports grounds, schools, pubs and a Catholic church. The 2022 census recorded a population of 7,422 people for all electoral divisions labelled as Walkinstown.
The name of the area is a corruption of Wilkinstown – named after Wilkins, a tenant farmer who lived in the area in the 15th century. The Irish name for the area is Baile Bhailcín.
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of holy well and burial sites in the townlands of Wilkinstown and Greenhills. A Bronze Age Linkardstown-type burial, containing a cist burial covered by a mound and cairn, was excavated at Walkinstown Park in the 1930s.
Walkinstown, as a suburb, was a 20th-century creation. The area was a dairy farm until house building began in the 1930s and ended in the 1970s when most of the land was built on. Primary and secondary schools were built in the 1950s and 1960s. The local Catholic church, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, was built in 1954.
One of several iconic moments from Ireland's unexpected success in the 1990 FIFA World Cup took place at Walkinstown roundabout on 25 June 1990. That afternoon, after Ireland beat Romania on penalties to reach the quarter finals of the competition, crowds emerged from several nearby pubs and "invaded" the roundabout to celebrate the win. Amateur footage of the joyous scenes at the junction became synonymous with the mood in the country at the time. In July 2020, ten days after former Irish football manager Jack Charlton died, fans gathered at the roundabout to recreate the moment and pay their respects.
Walkinstown lies within the postal district of Dublin 12 and the Dáil constituency of Dublin South-Central. The electoral divisions of Walkinstown A, B and C have their northern boundaries along the Naas Road, western boundary at the Cammock River, eastern boundary at St. Agnes Road, and southern limits at the boundary between the Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council local authority areas.
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Walkinstown
Walkinstown (Irish: Baile Bhailcín) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, six kilometres southwest of the city centre. It is surrounded by Drimnagh to the north, Crumlin to the east, Greenhills to the south, and Ballymount, Bluebell, and Clondalkin to the west. It lies within the postal district of Dublin 12.
It consists mainly of privately owned housing, with some social housing remaining in the Dublin City Council area between the Walkinstown and Long Mile Roads and Ballymount Lower. It was built as an estate of starter homes after World War II.
Walkinstown has a library, community centre, sports grounds, schools, pubs and a Catholic church. The 2022 census recorded a population of 7,422 people for all electoral divisions labelled as Walkinstown.
The name of the area is a corruption of Wilkinstown – named after Wilkins, a tenant farmer who lived in the area in the 15th century. The Irish name for the area is Baile Bhailcín.
Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of holy well and burial sites in the townlands of Wilkinstown and Greenhills. A Bronze Age Linkardstown-type burial, containing a cist burial covered by a mound and cairn, was excavated at Walkinstown Park in the 1930s.
Walkinstown, as a suburb, was a 20th-century creation. The area was a dairy farm until house building began in the 1930s and ended in the 1970s when most of the land was built on. Primary and secondary schools were built in the 1950s and 1960s. The local Catholic church, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary, was built in 1954.
One of several iconic moments from Ireland's unexpected success in the 1990 FIFA World Cup took place at Walkinstown roundabout on 25 June 1990. That afternoon, after Ireland beat Romania on penalties to reach the quarter finals of the competition, crowds emerged from several nearby pubs and "invaded" the roundabout to celebrate the win. Amateur footage of the joyous scenes at the junction became synonymous with the mood in the country at the time. In July 2020, ten days after former Irish football manager Jack Charlton died, fans gathered at the roundabout to recreate the moment and pay their respects.
Walkinstown lies within the postal district of Dublin 12 and the Dáil constituency of Dublin South-Central. The electoral divisions of Walkinstown A, B and C have their northern boundaries along the Naas Road, western boundary at the Cammock River, eastern boundary at St. Agnes Road, and southern limits at the boundary between the Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council local authority areas.