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Crumlin is a centrally-located suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Crumlin covers the area from the Poddle River near the KCR to the Drimnagh Road, to Bunting Road, and is situated not far from the city centre, on the Southside of Dublin city. Neighbouring areas include Walkinstown, Perrystown, Drimnagh and Kimmage. Crumlin is contained within postal district Dublin 12. Crumlin is home to Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, the largest children's hospital in the country.
lin gets its name from the crooked valley that is known as Lansdowne valley.
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Crumlin is a centrally-located suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Crumlin covers the area from the Poddle River near the KCR to the Drimnagh Road, to Bunting Road, and is situated not far from the city centre, on the Southside of Dublin city. Neighbouring areas include Walkinstown, Perrystown, Drimnagh and Kimmage. Crumlin is contained within postal district Dublin 12. Crumlin is home to Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, the largest children's hospital in the country.
Name & History
Crumlin gets its name from the crooked valley that is known as Lansdowne valley. The valley was formed by glacial erosion in the distant past and is now bisected by the Camac river. The valley is situated behind Drimnagh and is largely made up of recreational parkland and a Pitch and Putt course. The entrance to the Pitch and Putt is from Slieve Bloom Road opposite Slieve Bloom Park and the entrance to the park is on Davitt Road. The valley was left idle from the 1930s to the 1990s when the residents of Slieve Bloom Park managed to get Dublin Corporation to develop the valley into an amenity to be enjoyed by the local population.
Some of the local social amenities in the area are named after some of the 1916 Rebels who had a training camp in near by Kimmage at sundrive cross roads. Such as Pearse college on clogher road and Eamonn Ceannt Park in Sundrive.
There's a Dublin Jewish cemetery located on Aughavannagh Road in the Dolphin's Barn area of crumlin. Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's "Ulysses (novel)", on his death bed expressed a desire to his friend 'Sniffer' Cohen to be buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Dolphin's Barn. Despite the cemetery committee rejection, he was buried by Cohen at the site in a very unconventional manner in the end.
People
Notable people who have lived in or been associated with the area include:
- Morrissey's mother is originally from Crumlin.
- Phil Lynott former bassist, singer and poet, leader and co-founder of the rock band Thin Lizzy used to live in Leighlin Road and Rutland Avenue, Crumlin.
- Martin Duffy filmmaker and author was also from Leighlin Road, Crumlin. Duffy based his first feature film The Boy from Mercury on his childhood experiences in the neighborhood and treated life there since the 1930s in detail in the biography of his parents, "Barney and Molly".
- Christy Brown, the Irish author, painter and poet, was born in Crumlin.
- Brendan Behan moved to Crumlin from Dublin City centre. He lived at 70 Kildare Road where the house is marked with a plaque in his honour.
- Martin Cahill AKA "The General", a Dublin underword figure, lived in Crumlin.
- Paul McGrath former footballer who played with the Republic Of Ireland, Manchester United and Aston Villa grew up in Crumlin having played for St. Patrick's Athletic of Inchicore.
- Eamonn Rogers former footballer who played with the Republic Of Ireland, Blackburn Rovers and Charlton Athletic grew up in Crumlin.
- Paddy Casey the Singer/Songwriter is from Captains Road in Crumlin.
- Larry Flood former Irish Olympic boxer and Irish welter champion lived in Crumlin.
- Gemma Craven the Actress is from Crumlin.
- Richie Egan Bass Player in The Redneck Manifesto (band) and lead singer of Jape (band) is from Crumlin.
- Oliver Cromwell, on his way to Drogheda, camped near Crumlin Village (hence Cromwellsfort Road). But history actually says that his army stayed within the encampments of the Barnwall family castle, Drimnagh Castle. There is no indication that Cromwellsfort Road is in fact true, it is just speculation, but having an army of Cromwell's size it is feasible that some of his units did stay there but they would have camped all over the Drimnagh and Crumlin area.
Transport
Bus Routes
Bus Átha Cliath routes serving the Crumlin area are:
17, 18, 19A, 50, 56A, 77, 77A, 83, 121, 122, 123, 150, 151
Sport
- Guinness Rugby Football Club ( Guinness R.F.C.) is the nearest rugby club in the area. It is based in the Iveagh Sports Grounds on the Crumlin Road.
- Crumlin United F.C. are a senior football team from the area, they play in the Leinster Senior League. The club have an extensive youth system the most famous former player being Robbie Keane
- St James's Gate F.C. play their home games at the Iveagh Grounds, Crunlin Road. They compete in the Leinster Senior League.
- Lourdes Celtic F.C. are a Junior football team from the Sundrive area, they play mostly in the Leinster Junior Leagues. Famous international players such as Damien Duff and Andy Reid (footballer) played at junior level for the club.
- Crumlin Boxing Club is one of the top boxing clubs in the country. It is based in Windmill road.
- St James Gaels is another Gaelic Athletic Association club in the area. They play their home games at the Iveagh Grounds on the Crumlin Road.
- Crumlin Boxing Club is one of the most respected amateur boxing gyms in Ireland and produced Dean Byrne.
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