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ST GALL GARDENS SOUTH

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I DID NOT EXPLORE ST GALL GARDENS NORTH

St Gall Gardens South is a residential area in the suburb of Milltown in Dublin, Ireland. It is located in the D14 postal district. There is not much of interest on the street except for a Marian Grotto at one end and the green postbox.

As a matter of interest St Gall is the name of a wheel shaped hard cheese made from the milk of Friesian cows, which won a Gold Medal at the World Cheese Awards held in Dublin 2008.

Gall (Latin: Gallus; c. 550 – c. 646) according to hagiographic tradition was a disciple and one of the traditional twelve companions of Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent. However, he may have originally come from the border region between Lorraine and Alemannia and only met Columbanus at the monastery of Luxeuil in the Vosges. Gall is known as a representative of the Irish monastic tradition. The Abbey of Saint Gall in the city of Saint Gallen, Switzerland was built upon his original hermitage. Deicolus was the elder brother of Gall.

A SMALL SECTION OF CLOGHER ROAD

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CRUMLIN AREA OF DUBLIN

I was in the area as I wanted to photograph Ceannt Public Park but Clogher Road is a road that I have yet to explore in detail.

Crumlin is home to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, the largest children’s hospital in the country, which opened in 1956.

A number of roads are named after some of Ulster’s towns and various Irish towns associated with pagan or religious sites/towns. There’s a statue of the warrior Cúchulainn situated opposite St. Mary’s Church at the junction with Bunting Road. The statue is for Oisín, a Kildare man who played hurling in the Crumlin area. Cúchulainn, his father, was from the Cooley mountains around Louth, South Armagh where the Cooley Road in Drimnagh gets its name.

Some of the local amenities in Crumlin, such as Pearse College on Clogher Road and Ceannt park, are named after some of the 1916 Rebels who had a training camp in nearby Kimmage at Sundrive crossroads.

Having been predominantly rural, the character of Crumlin changed dramatically from the 1920s onwards. The Corporation of Dublin built 702 new houses around this time to resolve overcrowding in the city centre, along with Iveagh Trust, who built 136 houses on a 30 acres (12 ha) site off Crumlin Road. In 1935, a further 2,915 properties were constructed after the Corporation had been given additional compulsory purchase powers, following by a further 2,416 in a site off Kildare Road by 1945.

The old church of St Mary the Virgin stands on a site of a 12th century property. In 1942, following the rapid housing development, it moved to a new site designed by McDonnell and Dixon in yellow brick. The other local church is St Agnes’s, which opened in 1935.

MERCER VALE AND NEARBY

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CASTLE STREET AREA OF CHERRYWOOD VILLAGE

Mercer Vale is named after the Mercer family, who held lands in Cherrywood that were used in 1795 as an encampment for 4,000 men to defend the country from a potential invasion by France into Killiney Bay. The lands were also used as a garrison during the 1798 rebellion. A large burial slab marked Mercer is located in nearby Tully Church.

Mercer Vale, is a new residential scheme located in South Dublin and forms part of the Cherrywood Strategic Development Zone. The scheme consists of a mix of 2 and three storey housing, three storey own door duplex blocks and a 27-unit 4 storey apartment building in the northeast corner of the site.

Fronted onto Castle Street in Cherrywood and with the newly delivered Beckett Park and Tully Park in very close proximity, the variety of house types and varying heights combined with pocket parks and shared surface areas throughout engenders a sense of place for the residents of Mercer Vale within the wider Cherrywood SDZ.

EXPLORING LEHAUNSTOWN LANE

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AND VIEWS FROM THE LANE

I got the tram to Laughanstown (different spelling) I walked along a deserted country lane, access is now limited to walkers and cyclists, until I got to Tully Church and Graveyard (photographs to be published soon). I then crossed over M50 Motorway to Heronsford Lane and explored part of Ticknick Park which I hope to explore in greater detail next month.

There are now three flagship parks at Tully, Beckett, and Ticknick. Facilities include a full-size GAA pitch, grassed sports pitches and all-weather pitch, playgrounds, tennis courts, boules court, multi-sports pavilion, multi-use games area, play and ecological trails.

MY FIRST TIME TO WALK ALONG THIS SECTION OF THE SEAFRONT

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ALONG THE DUBLIN ROAD IN SUTTON

I checked online and discovered that there are 130 properties for sale at the moment and yet I was told that it was difficult to find a property for sale in the area.

Sutton is a residential suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It occupies the tombolo which links Howth Head to the mainland, some of the lower slopes of Howth Hill, and a little of the adjacent coasts. The area lies within the jurisdiction of Fingal County Council. There is a small commercial core at the Sutton Cross road intersection.

Sutton lies in the ancient Barony of Coolock, within the traditional County Dublin.

Sutton is surrounded by many beaches. The Burrow Beach is particularly popular among locals and tourists. It is approximately 1.2 km and stretches from Sutton Golf Club to Howth, along one side of the tombolo connecting Howth Head to the mainland. Sutton Strand runs along the coast road and in front of St. Fintan’s church.

Sutton Park is a housing development formed within Kilbarrack lands, on the coastline of Dublin Bay, Ireland.

Built on the site of an old sand quarry and neighbouring fields, it was constructed in the 1960s, a decade prior to the Bayside streets to the west, with which it is usually grouped. Located between the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) line and the coastal Dublin Road, with access from Bayside Boulevard, Bayside Park and one external road link to the R105 coast road (itself a section of the Dublin-Howth-Holyhead-London road built by Thomas Telford in 1823). According to some accounts pedestrian access is also possible through Kilbarrack Cemetery, which stands between some of the Sutton Park streets and the sea [when I visited the cemetery today there was no passage through the cemetery as the only access was via the Dublin Road … there is only one gate].

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