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Ballyfermot House, known locally as 'the tiled house', was built by the Verveer family. [7] In his A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Samuel Lewis places a Captain Lampier and his wife Bridget (Cavanaugh of Goldenbridge) (Lieutenant Joseph Lamphier, 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers and Bridget Mary Cavanagh) as living there in 1834. It ...
The first church in modern-day Ballyfermot existed in a former Dublin Corporation paint depot on O'Hogan Road which Father Donal O'Scannaill had purchased from Dublin Corporation c.1950 for £200. [2] This building had originally been a storage unit known as 'the painters hut' during the first housing phase of Ballyfermot.
This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in Ireland. County Carlow [ edit ]
These often included social housing developments throughout the west of Ireland and the midlands. By the early 1950s, McInerney had entered the Dublin market and was building high volume suburban homes on green field sites including 190 houses for Dublin Corporation in Ballyfermot and 340 houses in Milltown. By the mid-1950s, it had expanded ...
The Johnstown townland extends due west from the Georgian Johnstown House (now St. John's College) on Le Fanu Rd. It runs west to Kennelsfort Road and lies between St. Laurence townland (the St. Laurence House is now the West County Hotel) from the River Liffey and Chapelizod in the north, to Ballyfermot Upper/Blackditch on the south.
Originally a largely rural area, Dublin City Council developed social housing in the Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard areas from the mid-20th century. [3] One of the first large developments in the area, [3] Cherry Orchard Hospital, opened in 1953. [4] [5] Cherry Orchard F.C., a local association football (soccer) club, was formed in 1957. [6]
Dublin Ballyfermot was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies ( Teachtaí Dála , commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Saggart (Irish: Teach Sagard) is a village in County Dublin, Ireland, south west of Dublin city, in the local government area of South Dublin. It lies between the N7 (Naas Road), Rathcoole, Citywest and Tallaght. It is one of the fastest-growing settlements in Ireland, with its population doubling between 2011 and 2022.