Donnycarney House
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Donnycarney Irish: Domhnach Cearna |
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 Donnycarney
Location in Ireland
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| Coordinates: 53°22′33.6″N 6°13′7.68″W / 53.376000°N 6.2188000°WCoordinates: 53°22′33.6″N 6°13′7.68″W / 53.376000°N 6.2188000°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Dublin |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
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Donnycarney (Irish: Domhnach Cearna) is a Northside suburb in the city of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council. It is mostly residential, around 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the centre of Dublin. It is the home of GAA stadium, Parnell Park.
Donnycarney is bordered by Beaumont, Artane, Killester and Marino, and lies in the postal districts of Dublin 9 and 5. It is mostly residential, located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the centre of Dublin. Donnycarney is served by Dublin Bus - including routes 14, 15, 27, 27a, 27b, 42 and 43, which all stop at the well known Donnycarney Church bus stop. Killester and Clontarf Road Dart Stations are nearby.
Local amenities include restaurants, the Donnycarney/Beaumont Credit Union, a church, a community youth project in the newly built large community centre (Le Chéile), a 3.25 hectares (8.0 acres) park (Maypark) that has a playground, an all-weather pitch and GAA/Soccer pitches, chip shops, Chinese takeaways, newsagents - Spar on Collins Avenue & Mace in Killester and pubs. There are small strips of shops along Collins Avenue West, Malahide Road and Killester Avenue. The nearest supermarkets to Donnycarney are SuperValu in Killester Village and Tesco in Artane Castle Shopping Centre. Donnycarney West has its own residents association "Donnycarney West Community Association" who won 'Pride of Place' 2012.
Donnycarney West (known as Old Donnycarney) street names are all named after trees Oak, Elm, Hazel, Holly with the exception of Belton Park estate while the other end of Donnycarney (Built in 1940s) locally known as North/New Donnycarney all start with 'Clan', Clancarthy, Clandonagh etc.
Donnycarney is also home to two primary schools (located next to the community centre and the Parish Church) on Collins Avenue, Our Lady of Consolation National School which caters for girls until 6th class and Scoil Chiarain which caters for boys until 6th class. Secondary schools include St. Davids Boys Secondary School in Artane and St. Mary's Holy Faith Killester for girls, both located just outside of Donnycarney.
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