Finglas - a history

Gumbo

Degsy wrote: »

Spanish sister's Convent

thanks, i moved from finglas west into the houses in the convent in 1997!

nice pic, cant wait to show my ma and da

joewicklow

Great Thread lads, I was born and reared on Wellmount Road. My parents still live there!

yoshytoshy

The pubs like the royal oak were known as coach houses ,so I was told anyways.

Great photos and posts ,
Cheers:)

Degsy

joewicklow wrote: »

Great Thread lads, I was born and reared on Wellmount Road. My parents still live there!

A good road..
It used to be called Springmount road after Springmount HOuse that was in the area.
I've been trying to get a pic or more info on it so ask your folks do they know anything.
I'll drop them in some cake

jazoo

cool thread im from finglas my parents moved there in the late forties still have lots of family there. Any more photos?

Jackeenboy

Isnt this place the Essex of Dublin??

merrionsq

Good post. Looking at those quaint old photos, those country village folk must have been in for some shock when they were surrounded by one of the largest block of social housing in Dublin! Mostly inner city residents if my info is correct. I reckon there was no "public consultation process" back then!

Degsy

De Velera unveils the Dick Mckee memorial 1951


Glebe House

Old village scene

Church St before the dual carraigeway


Gofton Hall,formerly Eagle Lodge where the bank of ireland is now



Mary Feegans shope,now the main centre car park

Poccington

It's quite nice looking at photo's of how Finglas was, compared to what it has become.

It was a lovely place to be raised in though.

ebairead

You know the School on St Helena's Rd, there seems to be some kind of Old House attached to it.

Any idea what it is?

It's around the area I've marked with an X in this picture.

Degsy

ebairead wrote: »

You know the School on St Helena's Rd, there seems to be some kind of Old House attached to it.

Any idea what it is?

It's around the area I've marked with an X in this picture.

Its now st helena's family resource centre and some scumbags burnt down the gatelodge last week.
Dirty little pricks.

Rashers

ebairead wrote: »

You know the School on St Helena's Rd, there seems to be some kind of Old House attached to it.

Any idea what it is?

It's around the area I've marked with an X in this picture.

I didn't see a picture.

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Rashers wrote: »

I didn't see a picture.

That's because that poster copied and pasted a post of mine form earlier in the thread, word for word, and didn't include the picture, for some reason.

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Degsy.

That river/stream behind the house I live in.

What's the name of it?

Doublin

Some great pic's there, I'll have to show them to the grandfather.. He'll probably be able to name the people in the pictures..

Can't wait til I move back to Finglas in the next couple of weeks, catch up with all the old gang. Pity the Drake isn't open anymore. Never really drank in the Bottom of the Hill, & have bad memories of the Jolly. What's the best pub around now?

January

I've heard Riordans (Drogehda Lodge...) or the Shamrock... (I know my OH's mam goes to the Shamrock...)... there's also the bar in the Ardmore Hotel... I've been a few times, very quiet... Which part are you moving to?

Doublin

A house share on McKee Avenue, so pretty much in the heart of the village. Heard good things about the Deputy Mayor once you avoid the samurai swords

Dirk Gently

sorry to dig up an old thread, it actually popped up in a google search. I was wondering if anyone had any links relating to pre-christian Finglas. I see the OP mentions a bit about it and I remember reading about it before but not having much luck online.

DTRL

Hi, I'm looking to find out if anyone can remember a programme/documentary about Finglas that was shown on RTE1 back in late 1980s (I am guessing around 1987/1988). I really havent much to go on and have even tried RTE but they cant find it in their library but I am positive about it and definitely remember it. It was only on for about 25 minutes and all I can remember is that it was shown after the 6pm news and showed all different areas of Finglas with commentary. There is a book that I have called Finglas, Through The Ages and I'm nearly sure the programme was called something like this aswell. Its a long shot but if anyone can help or direct me in the right direction, it would be really appreciated.

John Mason

there is an archaeology dig starting in the next few weeks at the river road side of tolka valley. i wonder will it throw anything interesting

January

Ohh interesting, where did you find that out?

ebairead

Hi - do you know where, and who's doing it?

Eoin

John Mason

my aunt works in the office doing it (and ex-lodger is working on it)

IAC are going the dig

its the area around the tolka river in between scribblestown and the river road. the area is being developed as a recreational area, it has been marked as of being of important archaeology interest

gurramok

irishbird wrote: »

my aunt works in the office doing it (and ex-lodger is working on it)

IAC are going the dig

its the area around the tolka river in between scribblestown and the river road. the area is being developed as a recreational area, it has been marked as of being of important archaeology interest

Am curious, which part? Is that the area nearest the Ratoath Road or at the Garden Centre further in or the part just past the Garden Centre all the way up to that pitch & putt course?

Yes, i've roamed that area in my youth so know it well

JuliusCaesar

Just wondering if the CoI national school is still there - and exactly where it is? I went there for a couple of years, but having been up around Finglas recently couldn't see where it might be with all the changes. We used to cross a stream to get there.

Nevyn

It's still there at the junction of chruch street and glebe view.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=finglas+dublin+11&sll=41.167127,-73.857785&sspn=0.080895,0.102654&ie=UTF8&cd=1&hq=&hnear=Finglas,+County+Dublin,+Ireland&ll=53.388011,-6.303652&spn=0.000504,0.000802&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=53.388011,-6.303652&panoid=lLww3Ly4WPNjpyz5OqVdlg&cbp=12,10.78,,1,7.51

karengray

[the x on your map is a school called St Malacys primary schoolQUOTE=Des;59388823]Can you give some context to that picture?

What is where on it now.

Also.

You know the School on St Helena's Rd, there seems to be some kind of Old House attached to it.

Any idea what it is?

It's around the area I've marked with an X in this picture.

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karengray

the x on the map of Finglas, is a school called St Malacys primary school

karengray

o I know the house your talking about now, I grew up in Dunsink, I think it was like a gate lodge for St Helenas House

Dirk Gently

karengray wrote: »

o I know the house your talking about now, I grew up in Dunsink, I think it was like a gate lodge for St Helenas House

karengray wrote: »

o I know the house your talking about now, I grew up in Dunsink, I think it was like a gate lodge for St Helenas House

There use to be a lane way from that house at st helenas directly to finglas wood house which is the corpo compound now in tolka valley park marked in blue on this map. https://maps.google.ie/maps/ms?msid=213841870191430604505.0004bf4cb707ba5fc78cc&msa=0&ll=53.378004,-6.30229&spn=0.014669,0.042272

you can use the historical maps here to compare to modern google street maps http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,712917,738141,6,7

gurramok

karengray wrote: »

You know the School on St Helena's Rd, there seems to be some kind of Old House attached to it.

Any idea what it is?

From memory, its owned by the HSE. Used for community services, they used to do counselling for example in there in the late 90's.