Templeogue

Templeogue
Teach Mealóg
Suburb
Templeogue
Templeogue
Templeogue is located in Dublin
Templeogue
Templeogue
Location in Dublin
Templeogue is located in Ireland
Templeogue
Templeogue
Templeogue (Ireland)
Coordinates: 53.2985°N 6.3028°W / 53.2985; -6.3028
Country Ireland
Province Leinster
County County Dublin
Area
 • Suburb 5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi)
Elevation
 55 m (180 ft)
Population
 (2016)
 • Urban
 17,395
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Eircode (Routing Key)
D6W
Irish Grid Reference O118292

Templeogue (from Irish Teach Mealóg, meaning 'New Church of Saint Mel') is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south.

Geography

Location

The centre of Templeogue is 6.0 kilometres (3.7 mi) from both the city centre to the north and the Dublin Mountains to the south, and to the coast at Dublin Bay on the Irish Sea. It is 55 metres (180 ft) above sea level and occupies an area of 534 hectares.

Suburbs adjacent to Templeogue are Ballyboden, Ballyroan, Firhouse, Greenhills, Kimmage, Knocklyon, Perrystown, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, and Terenure.

Transport

The three main routes through the suburb are the R112 regional road (Templeville Road), the R137 regional road (Templeogue Road), and the R817 regional road (Cypress Grove Road and Wainsfort Road). The M50 motorway borders the suburb to the west.

Dublin Bus operates the following bus routes through Templeogue: 15, 15A, 15B, 15D, 49, 54A, 65, 65B and 150.

Natural features

The River Dodder forms the southern border with Rathfarnham while the River Poddle forms the northern border with Greenhills and Kimmage. The historical artificial watercourse from the Dodder at Firhouse to the Poddle passed through Templeogue.

Prominent views from Templeogue are of Montpelier Hill 5.7 km (3.5 mi) to the southwest, topped by the ruin of the Hellfire Club at 383 metres (1,257 ft), and of Three Rock Mountain (450 m), topped by transmitter masts, 7.3 km (4.5 mi) to the southeast.

Etymology

The original Irish language name Teach Mealóg refers to a chapel named after Saint Mel that was built there in about 1273.

History

Templeogue was originally a small village in the rural, southern part of County Dublin.

In Elizabethan times it was owned by the Talbot family, who later became prominent as the owners of Mount Talbot. The Talbot's estate was forfeited to the Crown on the Restoration of Charles II.

In the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was owned by the Domviles. The Domviles could claim some control over the canal, which passed through their estates on its way from the Dodder to the Poddle - at that time it provided Dublin's main drinking water supply, as well as critical power for multiple watermills.

Templeogue House from an illustration of 1751.

An illustration of the doric temple at Templeogue House by Gabriel Beranger from around 1751 illustrates the grounds of the Domville estate as it would have once looked when lived in by Sir Compton Domvile, 2nd Baronet. The temple was later moved to Santry Court along with a number of other follies in 1781 when Charles Domvile vacated the estate as the house had fallen into disrepair. Today Templeogue House still contains many of the original features and is one of the oldest structures in the area.

In 1801, the Templeogue Road was constructed, originally as a toll road.

Urban expansion of Dublin during the 1950s and '60s absorbed the village.

Amenities

Schools

St. Pius X school classroom

The local schools are St. Pius X National School, Our Lady's Secondary School, Templeogue College, St. Mac Dara's Community College, Bishop Galvin National School, Bishop Shanahan National School, and Ashfield College.

Sports

Local sports facilities are Faughs GAA Club, St. Judes GAA Club, St. Mary's College RFC, Templeogue Swimming Club, Templeogue Tennis Club, and Templeogue United Football Club.

Shops and services

Shops at Fortfield Park

Shops, restaurants, and small business services are located in the village on Templeogue Road, as well as in Fortfield Park, Cypress Park, Wainsfort Drive, and Rathfarnham Shopping Centre.

Although surrounded by pubs in adjacent neighbourhoods, Templeogue has only one pub inside its boundaries, The Templeogue Inn, also known as The Morgue. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway passed through Templeogue so close to the pub that pedestrians were sometimes hit. Some corpses were sheltered in the pub until taken away and the pub acquired the permanent, morbid nickname. The Templeogue Inn was, for a while, the most expensive pub in Ireland when it changed hands on 12 October 1983 for IR£660,000, a remarkable sum at the time.

Churches

St. Pius X Church

The Roman Catholic parish church is St. Pius X which opened on 27 November 1960 on College Drive. A previous church was situated close to the existing graveyard at Wellington Lane, where the original village of Templeogue was located.

St. Jude's church was built at Orwell Park in 1975 to serve the newer housing estates of Orwell, Willington, Rossmore and surrounding areas.

Politics and administration

See also: Administrative and electoral structures of Templeogue

Templeogue straddles two Dáil constituencies, with five of its electoral divisions (Templeogue-Cypress, Templeogue-Limekiln, Templeogue-Orwell, Templeogue-Osprey, and Templeogue Village) in the Dublin South-West constituency, and one electoral division (Templeogue-Kimmage Manor) is in Dublin South-Central.

It is administered by South Dublin County Council, and its local electoral area for county council elections is Rathfarnham–Templeogue.

Templeogue is part of the Dublin 6W postal district.

Population

Templeogue's population at the 2016 census was 17,395, a rise of 0.1 per cent from the previous 2011 census. In the twenty-five years from 1991 to 2016, the population fell by 304, a decrease of 1.73 per cent. The population at the 2011 census was 17,378, a fall of 1.8 per cent from the previous 2006 census.

Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1991 19,647 —    
1996 18,662 −5.0%
2002 18,383 −1.5%
2006 17,699 −3.7%
2011 17,378 −1.8%
2016 17,395 +0.1%
Source: www.cso.ie
Electoral Division Population
2016		 Population
2011		 Population
2006		 Change
2011-2016		 Change
2006-2011
Templeogue-Cypress 2,714 2,801 2,949 –3.16% –5.0%
Templeogue-Kimmage Manor 4,856 4,653 4,267 +4.27 +9.0%
Templeogue-Limekiln 3,449 3,476 3,658 +0.78 –5.0%
Templeogue-Orwell 2,056 2,138 2,308 +3.91 –7.4%
Templeogue-Osprey 2,246 2,324 2,560 +3.41 –9.2%
Templeogue Village 2,074 1,986 1,957 +4.33 +1.5%
Templeogue Total 17,395 17,378 17,699 +0.10 –1.8%

Culture

James Joyce, who was born 2 km to the northeast in Rathgar, mentions Templeogue in Finnegans Wake, Book III, Episode 3, page 553, line 12.

The poet Austin Clarke lived in Bridge House beside Templeogue Bridge, which spans the River Dodder. After his death, there was a proposal to preserve the house and his library of 6,500 books as a memorial. This was not possible owing to long-term plans to demolish the house and widen the road. The old Templeogue Bridge, built in 1800, and Bridge House were removed and a new bridge at the same location was opened by Councillor Mrs. Bernie Malone, Chairman Dublin City Council on 11 December 1984, which was renamed Austin Clarke Bridge in his honour.

The novelists Mary Beckett, Charles Lever, and Flora Shaw resided in Templeogue as did journalists Ursula Halligan and Michael Mills, and radio music host Larry Gogan.

Notable residents

See also: Category:People from Templeogue

Pictures