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Drumcondra, Dublin

Drumcondra (Irish: Droim Conrach, meaning 'Conra's Ridge') is a residential area and inner suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It is administered by Dublin City Council. The River Tolka and the Royal Canal flow through the area.

Drumcondra
Droim Conrach

25 m (82 ft)

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The district is served by , on the main Drumcondra road. The station initially opened on 1 April 1901 but closed on 1 December 1910[11] with the termination of Kingsbridge (now Heuston Station) to Amiens Street (now Connolly Station) services. Part of the original building was demolished in late 1918. It reopened on 2 March 1998 as a station on the Maynooth/Longford commuter line.

Drumcondra railway station

Many routes serve the Drumcondra area, including the 1, 11, 13, 16, 33, 41 and 41C. In addition, the Aircoach express coach service to Dublin Airport stops at the railway station.

Dublin Bus

(for boys and girls), Church Avenue, Church Of Ireland.

Drumcondra N.S.

. (for boys), Roman Catholic, parish of Drumcondra.

St Patrick's N.S

(for girls), Home Farm Road, Roman Catholic, parish of Drumcondra.

Corpus Christi N.S.

(for boys and girls), Roman Catholic, parish of Drumcondra.[22]

St. Joseph's School For Children with a Visual Impairment

Religion[edit]

The oldest church in the district is Drumcondra Church (Church of Ireland), located at the end of Church Avenue, abutting All Hallows College. Several notable people including Georgian-period architect James Gandon are buried in the adjoining graveyard.


The "Old Church of St. George" was built about 1668 in Lower Temple Street (changed to Hill Street in the 1800s), then a part of Drumcondra. The Tower of the Old Church of St. George can still be seen on Hill Street and its gravestones are around the walls of what is now a playground.[23][24][25][26][27]


The "New Church of St. George" was built on the square further up the road at the end of Temple Street in the early 1800s. The original site acquired for the new church was on Whitworth Road, but then the present site was selected, which at the time was open fields. A temporary chapel was built on the Whitworth Road site and its churchyard was retained when St. George's was completed – this site was later taken over by the Whitworth Hospital (later named Drumcondra Hospital). The gravestones can be seen behind the hospital.[28][29]


Drumcondra is a parish in the Fingal South West deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, served by the Church of Corpus Christi at Home Farm Road. The palace of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin is situated alongside Clonliffe College (the diocesan seminary). Together they occupy an extensive site bounded by Clonliffe Road and Drumcondra Road (to the South and West) with the River Tolka at the northern extremity.


The Respond! Housing Association has its Dublin office located in High Park, Drumcondra, where it also runs training courses in Housing and Social care provision.


The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Ukrainian Church in Ireland of Bishop Nicholas the Miracle Worker) holds services in Holy Cross College, Clonliffe.[30]

Cemetery

All Hallows College

Cemetery of the Carmelite Monastery of the Incarnation, Hampton, Drumcondra.

Graveyard

Drumcondra Church

St. George Burial ground, Whitworth Road

Drumcondra Hospital

High Park, Graveyard

St. Joseph's Cemetery (Rosminians), Grace Park Road.

There are a number of small burial places in the Drumcondra area

Iar Taoiseach

Bertie Ahern

writer and philanthropist, lived for thirty years on Drumcondra Hill[32]

Sarah Atkinson

SJ, the Jesuit priest, musicologist and writer, was born in Drumcondra Castle.

William Bathe

Architect on RTE 'Room to Improve', lives in Drumcondra.

Dermot Bannon

writer

Dermot Bolger

a British wartime cabinet member, lived for part of his childhood in the area.

Brendan Bracken

Fine Gael politician.

Richard Bruton

Victoria Cross recipient[33]

Nevill Coghill

soldier and film producer[34]

Emmet Dalton

comedian

Neil Delamere

football player and broadcaster, lived on Richmond Road.

Eamon Dunphy

Abbey actor

Gabriel Fallon

writer[35]

Michael Feeney Callan

motorcycle racer and designer[36]

Charles Franklin

popular singer[37]

Orla Gartland

actor

Aidan Gillen

writer[38]

Alan Glynn

football player and manager

Eoin Hand

Lyricist and singer, Eurovision winner.

Paul Harrington

composer, member and former chair of Aosdána.

Michael Holohan

writer, lived for a time on Millbourne Avenue.

James Joyce

scientist

Richard Kirwan

broadcaster/journalist

Nuala McGovern

playwright

Seán O'Casey

(1893–1986), Irish socialist republican revolutionary, lived at 174 Upper Drumcondra Road

Peadar O'Donnell

an Irish Belgian resistance operative, grew up in Waterfall Cottage, Richmond Road

Mary O'Kelly de Galway

businessman and rugby player gew up on Griffith Avenue

Anthony O'Reilly

journalist

Fintan O'Toole

rapper

Rejjie Snow

poet

Thomas Tickell

Dublin GAA and Irish Rugby player

Hannah Tyrrell

List of towns and villages in Ireland

St. Anne's Road Pocket Park