Templeogue

Templeogue (Irish "Teach Mealóg") is a suburb of southwest Dublin, in Ireland. The Irish means "St. Melog's house" or "church" - a medieval monastery. It is part of the postal district of Dublin 6w, part of the Dublin South West constituency and in the jurisdiction of South Dublin County Council.

Location

Templeogue lies between the suburbs of Terenure, Rathfarnham, Knocklyon, Kimmage, Walkinstown, Perrystown and Tallaght. It is also on the N81 national secondary road.

It is separated from Tallaght by a green belt, namely Tymon Park, though it once was part of the Parish of Tallaght Fact|date=February 2007. A series of pedestrian bridges provide cyclists and pedestrians access to Tallaght Village via the M50.

It is km to mi | 6 | abbr=yes | precision=0 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 180 feet (55 m) above sea level. The River Dodder forms the southern border with Rathfarnham while the River Poddle forms the northern border.

One of the most prominent views is of Mountpellier Hill to the southwest, topped by the ruin of the Hellfire Club at 1,250 feet (380 m).

Development

Templeogue was originally a small village in rural south of County Dublin. In 1801 when the "Templeogue Road" was constructed, originally as a toll road.

Urban expansion of Dublin during the 1950s and 1960s absorbed the village.

Templeogue is a predominantly middle class area.

Amenities

The suburb has many open fields (such as Orwell Green and Glendown Green), sports clubs - Faughs Gaelic Athletic Association club, St. Judes GAA Club, St Mary's College RFC and Templeogue United FC, as well as schools - St. MacDara's CC, Templeogue College, Our Lady's Secondary School, St. Pius X NS, Bishop Galvin NS and Bishop Shanahan NS primary schools.

Although surrounded by pubs in adjacent neighbourhoods, Templeogue has only one pub inside its boundaries, The Templeogue Inn, better known throughout Dublin as The Morgue. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway passed through Templeogue so close to the pub that many deaths occurred. Corpses were often sheltered in the pub until taken away and the pub acquired the permanent, morbid nickname.

"The Morgue" was the most expensive pub in Ireland for a time during the 1980s when it changed hands for £660,000, a remarkable sum at the time.

Templeogue is served by the 15, 49, and 15b bus routes and is mentioned once by James Joyce in "Finnegan's Wake", Book III, Episode 3, page 553, line 12:

External links

* [http://www.templeogueguides.org Templeogue Girl Guides]