Balally

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Balally
Baile Amhlaoibh
Suburb of Dublin
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Balally
Location in Dublin
Coordinates: 53°16′48″N6°13′55″W / 53.280°N 6.232°W / 53.280; -6.232
Country Ireland
Province Leinster
County County Dublin
Area
 • Total17 km2 (7 sq mi)
Time zone UTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Balally (Irish : Baile Amhlaoibh, meaning 'Olafs' Town'), [1] County Dublin, Ireland, is a townland and residential area between Dundrum village and the Sandyford Industrial Estate in Sandyford.

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Balally Parish itself reaches from Ardglas to the M50 motorway. The area is served by two primary schools (St. Olaf's National School and Queen of Angels) and two secondary schools (St. Tiernan's and Wesley College). Balally is part of the conurbation of Greater Dublin, in the council area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The area contains a Luas tram station, located near the southern entrance to the new Dundrum Town Centre.

Name and location

Balally townland is in the civil parish of Taney in the barony of Rathdown. [1] [2] The townland's Irish name, Baile Amhlaoibh, derives from a reputed association with Olaf (Amhlaoibh or "Olave"), the first king of Viking Dublin, who reputedly built a fort in the area. [3] Baile Amhlaoibh, meaning "the town of Olaf", was anglicised as Balally.[ citation needed ]

The first recorded building in the area is from a record of 1280 when John de Walhope was granted 7 oak trees from the royal forest at Glencree to build a house. [4] A later castle, built by William Walsh after 1407, was constructed on or near the site of this house. [5] [3]

Balally is located at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains and was originally farmland. It now includes several residential streets, including Balally Drive, Balally Hill, Balally Grove, Balally Close, Balally Park, Balally Avenue, Balally Road, and Sandyford Road. It is connected to Sandyford Road at Balally Hill.[ citation needed ]

Amenities

The local primary school, St. Olaf's National School, [6] had an enrollment of more than 480 pupils as of 2018. [7] The Church of the Ascension of the Lord, the local Roman Catholic church, was built in October 1982. [8]

Balally Residents Association has been in existence since 1964. [9]

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Balally Luas stop

Transport

Balally is served by bus route numbers 44, 44B and 116. The 44 travels on to Enniskerry in the south and Larkhill to the north and runs seven days a week. The 44B service operates on weekdays between Dundrum and Glencullen. The 116 also serves the area, as do routes S8 and L25, which have replaced the former 75 since 26 November 2023.[ citation needed ]

Balally Luas stop is a stop on the Luas light rail system's green line. It connects the suburb to Brides Glen stop in the south and the city centre and Broombridge station in the North.

Some proposals for the Dublin Metro, also known as Metrolink, proposed a station alongside Ballaly's Luas stop on its way from Swords to Sandyford. [10] However, as of February 2019, it was questioned whether this section of the line would be completed as originally proposed. [11]

Sport

Naomh Olaf is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club and Balally Celtic is the local association football club.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Baile Amhlaoibh / Balally". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Balally Townland, Co. Dublin". townlands.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 Ball, E.F. (1900). "Proceedings". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 10 (2): 191–192. JSTOR   25507063. Balally, a name [..] of Danish origin, derived from the words Bally Amalghaidh, the town of Olave, was granted towards the close of the thirteenth century to John de Walhope, who built a house on it with wood procured from the royal forest [..] It subsequently came into the possession of [..] the Walshe family [..and..] A castle was built
  4. ↑ "Balally Cottages Architectural Conservation Area" (PDF). Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Stout, Geraldine (25 April 2012), DU022-024 - Castle (tower house) - Balally, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, Balally Castle was built by William Walsh some time after 1407 when in a grant from the crown it was conditioned that a castle be built on the lands at Balally (Ball 1903, II, 73-74). This may have replaced a wooden dwelling built by John de Walhope in the late 13th-century (Ball 1900, 191)
  6. ↑ "St. Olaf's National SchoolSt. Olaf's National School". homepage.eircom.net. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Curriculum Evaluation - Report - St Olaf's National School". gov.ie. Department of Education. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  8. ↑ "History". Balally Parish. Archived from the original on 24 June 2011.
  9. ↑ "Balally Residents Association". Balally Residents Association. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "Metrolink public consultation 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2020.
  11. ↑ "Southside section of MetroLink set to be abandoned". Irish Examiner. 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
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