39-630: The Bradogue River is a small river in Dublin that rises in Cabra and flows into the River Liffey , with its primary outfall at Ormond Quay. It is culverted for its entire course. The river has mainly been known as the Bradogue (or variations on that including Bradoge, Bradok and Braddock since at least the 18th century, but the river has also been known by other names too, including Glascoynock, St Michan's Streams,
78-685: A number of primary schools, including Gaelscoil Bharra (Irish-medium, mixed sex), St Finbarr's BNS (Catholic ethos, all-boys), St Catherine's (Catholic ethos, all-girls), and Christ the King NS (Catholic ethos, all-girls). Holy Family School for the Deaf offers both primary and secondary education for deaf and hearing-impaired students. Casa Caterina provides education for students with autism or severe emotional and behavioural difficulties. Pre-school institutions in Cabra include Naíonra Bharra (Irish-medium), located on
117-568: A pilgrimage of sorts to the site. The Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King was opened in Cabra in 1933, following the Eucharistic Congress of Dublin (1932) . John J. Robinson of Robinson and Keefe was asked to design the new church, as he had been the architect for all the structures (Phoenix Park, Merrion Road, O'Connell Bridge etc.) built for the Congress. The church is cross-shaped in plan and
156-580: A plaque at Broom Bridge . Earl of Fingall Earl of Fingall and Baron Fingall were titles in the Peerage of Ireland . Baron Fingall was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . The seat of the title-holders was, from its establishment until 1953, Killeen Castle in County Meath , Ireland , and there was an ongoing close relationship with the related Plunkett family of Dunsany , and with
195-448: Is a hurler from Cabra who plays for Dublin GAA 's senior team as well as his club, Naomh Fionnbarra GAA . The suburb's most infamous former resident was John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury , otherwise known as the hanging judge, who lived at Cabragh House on the corner of the present-day Fassaugh Avenue and Ratoath Road. Another judge, with a far less villainous reputation who also lived in Cabra,
234-721: Is often divided into Cabra East and Cabra West, with a notional line of division being the railway line coming from the Phoenix Park Tunnel and going to Connolly Station . The Bradogue River , a tributary of the Liffey , rises underground at the southern edge of the district. The two main Dublin Bus routes for the area are the 120 Ashtown via Cabra West/East to Parnell Street / Ballsbridge and 122 Ashington , Cabra West/East, City to Drimnagh . Routes 38/a/b serve Cabra Road, while 37, 39, 39a,70, 70n serve Navan Road. Route 46a travels
273-467: Is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. The text on the plaque reads: Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1 and cut it on a stone of this bridge. Given the historical importance of the mathematical contribution, mathematicians have been known to make
312-522: The North Circular Road , part of Cabra's southern boundary. The Luas Green Line , part of Dublin's tram system, has two stops in Cabra, namely, Cabra and Grangegorman . The Green Line runs through the city centre and onwards to Cherrywood in South Dublin, with a connection in the city centre for services to West Dublin. There are suburban rail stops at Broombridge (which is also where
351-687: The Phoenix Park , Ireland's largest urban park and home to the President of Ireland and Dublin Zoo . The Royal Canal runs through Cabra and has a parallel towpath for walking and cycling. Naomh Fionnbarra GAA Club is located in Cabra, and has facilities for hurling , camogie and gaelic football . The Order of Malta Ambulance Corps has a branch in the area, and has provided training in first-aid and nursing skills, and voluntary community care services for over 30 years. The related national youth organisation,
390-672: The Prescriptive Barony or Lordship of Fingal originally granted in 1208 by King John of England . The Earls of Fingall’s Fingall Estate Papers (i.e. real property) consist of a large archive of manuscripts and ephemera (17th–20th century), documents incl. deeds, indentures, leases, wills, marriage settlements, incl. many on vellum. The Papers were purchased by the Fingal County Council and lodged in its Fingal Local Studies and Archives Department following an auction by Whyte’s Auctioneers on 6 February 1999 (item 373). However,
429-639: The Viscounts Gormanston , with whom they intermarried. Around 1426, Christopher Plunkett was created Baron Killeen : his seven sons founded five separate branches of the Plunket family, including the Plunkets of Dunsany, Rathmore and Dunsoghly. He also had a daughter Matilda (or Maud), who became celebrated as "the bride of Malahide ", when her first husband, Thomas Hussey, Baron Galtrim , was reputedly murdered on their wedding day. The tenth baron, Luke Plunkett,
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#1732854685522468-433: The 2022 census. From about 1480, the manor of Cabra was held by a branch of the Plunket family, another branch of which was later ennobled as Earls of Fingall . The branch which held Cabragh had its main residence at Dunsoghly Castle near Finglas , which still exists. There are three contiguous townlands called "Cabra", each in a different civil parish : Grangegorman , Glasnevin and Castleknock . The three met at
507-587: The Broadstone Railway Terminal lands (now a bus depot). At this point a branch line was constructed at some point, taking some of the flow more directly to the Liffey. The historical Bradogue course passed under the former Royal Canal harbour and the meeting of Constitution Hill and Broadstone Road. Broadstone is possibly a development from Bradoge-Steyn , the Norse steyn referring to a simple stone bridging of
546-620: The Gaelscoil Bharra campus. Notable people from Cabra include singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy , world champion boxer Steve Collins , author and journalist Gene Kerrigan , actors Michael Gambon and Frank Grimes , actress and singer Angeline Ball , singer Dickie Rock , rapper Kojaque and multi-time WWE world champion Sheamus (real name Stephen Farrelly). Numerous footballers hail from Cabra, including Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper Wayne Henderson , and Éamonn Fagan and Liam Whelan , both from St. Attracta Road. Whelan
585-617: The Luas terminates) and Pelletstown stations, providing rails services to Maynooth railway station , M3 Parkway railway station and stations in Dublin city centre such as Docklands railway station or Dublin Connolly railway station . Mount Bernard Park is a public park located in East Cabra. Its amenities include tennis courts, a basketball court, a 5-a-side football pitch, a playground and outdoor exercise equipment. At Cabra's western boundary lies
624-625: The Order of Malta Cadets, is for 10- to 16-year-olds. Broom Bridge , also known as Brougham Bridge, is a small bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra. The bridge is named after William Broom, one of the directors of the Royal Canal Company. Broom Bridge is the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton , following a 'eureka experience' , first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on 16 October 1843, which
663-647: The Pole Water, and Le Rughdich. Bradogue (Bradóg in Irish) means young salmon . Glascoynock is a corruption of Glasmacanóg, the stream of Canoc (Canoc was a Welsh-Irish saint), and this is the name most often encountered from Viking times to the 18th century. The St Michan's name arose from similar origins when the Norse of Dublin were forced to move to the Oxmanstown suburb by the Anglo-Normans who had taken control of
702-575: The School and Home for the Deaf, is located in a parkland setting in southern Cabra West. This facility is home to a range of Deaf organisations, including Deaf Sports Ireland. Along the canal towards Liffey Junction, and serving the railway, was once a coke-making site, of which only some of the Coke Oven Cottages, formerly lying north and south of the canal, remain. Near the Sixth Lock was a pin mill on
741-400: The course does reach the Liffey at Ormond Quay. The secondary course which separates at Broadstone runs to North Brunswick Street (formerly Channel Row), Red Cow Lane, King Street North, and under Smithfield, past the distillery site, Arran Street North, reaching the Liffey downstream of Mellowes Bridge (the former Queen Maev Bridge). The idea of "deculverting" part of the Bradogue's course
780-402: The early 20th century. Largely located between the Royal Canal and the Phoenix Park , it is primarily a residential suburb, with a range of institutions and some light industry. Cabra is served by bus, tram and mainline rail; it lies across Navan Road, one of the main roads from central Dublin to the orbital motorway. The population of all electoral divisions labelled as Cabra was 23,681 as of
819-538: The gate lodge of Cabragh House , today the location of the roundabout at the meeting of Ratoath Road and Fassaugh Avenue and the Canon Burke Senior Citizens Flats complex. Completed in 1598, Cabragh House was first occupied by the Segrave family. The mansion was then the home of the "hanging judge" Lord Norbury until he died in 1831 and the Segrave family managed to reacquire it. Charles Segrave, whose son
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#1732854685522858-646: The historic course, going under the railway to reach eastern Cabra. The river passes the North Circular Road between Royal and Charleville Terraces and its course is reflected in some property boundaries in the upper parts of Grangegorman. It enters the Grangegorman campus, built for the Dublin Institute of Technology and now part of the Technological University of Dublin and exits to pass through
897-553: The lands per se never justified the denomination of Fingall as an Earldom and later peerage Barony (both now extinct) for the Plunketts of Killeen in Meath (as the prescriptive barony of Fingal rested with the Viscounts Gormanston by descent from Walter de Lacy who obtained it in 1208). Rather, the evidence indicates that Lord Killeen negotiated and purchased the Earldom for £2,700 during
936-594: The lands concerned did not actually extend into the modern Fingal, and the Earls’ Fingall Estate Papers contain no evidence of any ownership in Fingal. Practically all the properties and leases relate to County Meath (or Westmeath), understandably since the Plunketts were originally, as indicated above, Barons of Killeen in County Meath. They essentially have nothing to do with the territory of Fingal, and hence
975-641: The northern part of the area, while another railway line (the Great Western from Broadstone Terminus) ran through the heart of the area. The Great Southern and Western branch line even had a sideline for the North City Mills on the border of Cabra and Phibsboro. Due to the proximity of Broadstone, there were no local railway stations, the nearest being beyond Phibsboro, Glasnevin Station northeast of Cross Guns (then Westmoreland) Bridge. From about 1880 to 1930, Cabra
1014-451: The people who moved to the new suburb were from the city centre slums. Quarry Road was originally called Quarry Lane, after a small quarry which was situated near where the current statue of Our Blessed Lady is located at the roundabout with Fassaugh Road (originally Fassaugh Lane.) This quarry was filled in the early part of the 1900s and the family who lived in the Homestead grew cabbages on
1053-544: The reclaimed land. Cabra is located southwest of the Royal Canal, except for one small piece of land between the canal and railway line, and northeast of the Phoenix Park, and runs southeast to northwest, from Phibsboro at St. Peter's Church and around the sixth Royal Canal lock, and Grangegorman at Hanlon's Corner, to Ashtown and Pelletstown; across the canal are the districts of first Glasnevin and then Finglas . The area
1092-470: The river at this low point. Passing along the northern edge of the King's Inns grounds, the flow parallels Dominick Street and touches Henrietta Lane and Bolton Street, then turns sharply to the southwest. It follows Kings Street, Green Street and Halston Street and Mary's Lane, passes the former Fruit and Vegetable Market, and crosses under Ormond Square. The main flow is taken into general sewers at this point, but
1131-652: The river was historically near the meeting of what are now the Ratoath Road and Nephin Road (previously Blind Lane ), now lying within the eastern side of the Pope John Paul II Park in western Cabra. After a spring-fed branch joins, its line continues east, and at the meeting of Drumcliff and Carnlough Roads the bulk of the early flow is taken north to the River Tolka by an intercepting sewer, with an overflow continuing on
1170-696: The site now occupied by 25–36 Shandon Mill (closer to the Fifth Lock and Cross Guns Bridge was a corn mill, at another time Mallet's Ironworks). Cabra West is home to a number of factories, both in the industrial park and along Bannow Road. One such factory is the Batchelors beans factory. Cabra is home to a number of secondary schools, including Coláiste Mhuire (Irish-medium, mixed sex), St. Declan's College (Catholic ethos, all-boys), St. Dominic's College (Catholic ethos, all-girls), and Cabra Community College (multidenominational, mixed sex). Cabra also contains
1209-492: The walled city. Pole Water is probably a corruption of Pill Water , referring to the Pill , the muddy area with multiple mouths from the small river to the historically unwalled Liffey. The path of the river has been described as upper or outer Cabra, North Circular Road , Grangegorman , Henrietta Street, Bolton Street, East Arran Street and Ormond Quay, and it is now culverted and integrated with municipal drainage. The source of
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1248-457: Was Sir Ambrose Forth (died 1610) judge of the Irish Court of Admiralty . He did not much enjoy living in Cabra, judging by his letters complaining about his "poor little farm house" there. The noted mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton , who freed algebra from the commutative postulate of multiplication (that the order or sequence of factors does not determine the result), is commemorated by
1287-448: Was a prominent market garden centre and a giant lairage, where cattle being brought to market at Hanlon's Corner were kept in pens and grazing fields; there was a set of cattle sidings on the GW&;W Railway line to the east of Carnlough Road. Until the 1920s, when large-scale housing developments took place, the area mostly comprised fields and open countryside on the edge of the city. Many of
1326-566: Was built in red brick with a huge statue of Christ integrated into the tower, which is on the axis of the approach road. The church shares a number of features with St. Therese Mount Merrion which was designed by the same architect approximately 20 years later. Robinson was also the architect of Galway Cathedral . Dublin city's public libraries have one of their administrative centres in the area, attached to Cabra Library; this Bibliographic Centre processes all books received and dispatches them to all branch libraries. Deaf Village Ireland, formerly
1365-419: Was created Baron Fingall in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 20 June 1831. He and his son and heir the ninth earl were both ardent supporters of Catholic Emancipation . The eleventh earl married Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett , who was noted both as an activist in numerous causes and as a society hostess. All three titles became extinct on the death of the twelfth earl in 1984, and are not to be confused with
1404-640: Was created Earl of Fingall on 29 September 1628. When still Baron Killeen, his first wife was Elizabeth, the second daughter of Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare , as properly recorded in the histories of the FitzGeralds of Kildare, based on their own family archives in Carton House and Kilkea Castle , and on no better authority than The 4th Duke of Leinster himself, writing at the time as Marquess of Kildare , who confirmed that Elizabeth married Luke Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall, in 1608. The eighth earl
1443-574: Was discussed when the Dublin Institute of Technology campus at Grangegorman was being planned. Cabra, Dublin Cabra ( Irish : An Chabrach , meaning 'the poor land') is an inner suburb on the northside of Dublin city in Ireland . It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the city centre, in the administrative area of Dublin City Council . It was commonly known as Cabragh until
1482-536: Was one of the Manchester United Busby Babes who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958, and Connaught Bridge was later renamed in his memory. The former Leeds United and Irish player and manager Johnny Giles also hails from the area. Roddy Collins , former manager of Bohemians , Shamrock Rovers and Maltese side Floriana , lived in Cabra before being appointed manager of Cork City . Éamonn Dillon
1521-482: Was the famous racing driver Henry Segrave lived there until 1912. The big house was bought by Dublin Corporation by way of a compulsory purchase order in 1939 for the construction of local authority housing, and the historic house was razed to the ground. The Industrial Revolution brought the construction of the Royal Canal in 1790 and the laying of one railway line (a Great Southern and Western branch), both through
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