TEMPLEOGUE

'Templeogue' (Irish ''Teach Mealóg'') is a suburb of southwest Dublin, in Ireland. The Irish means ''St. Melog's house'' or ''church'' - a mediaeval 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.

Contents

Location

Areas of Templeogue

Development

Amenities

In literature

External links

Location

Templeogue lies between the suburbs of Terenure, Rathfarnham, Knocklyon, Kimmage, Walkinstown and Tallaght. It is also on the N81 national secondary road.
Historically it is separated from Tallaght by the River Dodder, though it once was part of the Parish of Tallaght . A series of pedestrian bridges provide cyclists and pedestrians access to Tallaght Village via the M50.
It is 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.
The centre of the area is not Templeogue Village, rather it is the Orwell Shopping Centre (Orwell Park Dale) in front of the large recreational field, Orwell Green. . One of the most prominent views is of Montpelier Hill to the southwest, topped by the ruin of the Hellfire Club at 1,250 feet (380 m).

Areas of Templeogue

The ''Water Course'' was a stream feeding the River Poddle which, according to local legend, "disappeared" overnight. In reality, it was culverted to allow expansion of the St Jude's Parish Church. St. Jude's Parish church has striking architecture.
The estates of Cypress Grove North, Cypress Grove South, Ashfield, Cypress Grove Road, Corrybeg, Hilcrest, Springfield, Knocklyon Road and Templeogue Village make up what is known as the Village. Most of these estates are located on the N81. The "Village" houses landmarks such as the Morgue Pub, Templeogue Bridge and Templeogue Mansions. The Spawell is a sports recreation centre with tennis courts, indoor badminton and football pitches and squash courts, as well as a Pitch and Putt Club. It also has a night club, restaurant, arcade, snooker room and bar.
The Cheeverstown Centre is a home for people with learning or physical disabilities and is across the road from another centre for people with (less severe) learning disabilities - St. Michael's House.

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 between the late 1950s and early 1980s 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 - Faugh's GAA Club, St. Judes GAA Club, St. Mary's Rugby Club and Templeogue United FC, as well as schools - St. MacDara's CC, Templeogue College, 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.

In literature

James Joyce mentions it once, in ''Finnegan's Wake'', Book III, Episode 3, page 553, line 12:

4	...and I did spread before my Livvy,
5	where Lord street lolls and ladies linger and Cammomile Pass
6	cuts Primrose Rise and Coney Bend bounds Mulbreys Island but
7	never a blid had bledded or bludded since long agore when the
8	whole blighty acre was bladey well pessovered, my selvage mats
9	of lecheworked lawn, my carpet gardens of Guerdon City, with
10	chopes pyramidous and mousselimes and beaconphires and colos-
11	sets and pensilled turisses for the busspleaches of the summira-
12	mies and esplanadas and statuesques and style="color:blue">templeogues, the Par-
13	donell of Maynooth, Fra Teobaldo, Nielsen, rare admirable, Jean
14	de Porteleau, Conall Gretecloke, Guglielmus Caulis and the eiligh
15	ediculous Passivucant (glorietta's inexcellsiored!)...

External links

★ Templeogue Girl Guides