Templeogue
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Templeogue Teach Mealóg
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 Templeogue
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| Coordinates: 53°17′55″N 6°18′10″W / 53.2985°N 6.3028°WCoordinates: 53°17′55″N 6°18′10″W / 53.2985°N 6.3028°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Dublin |
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| • Suburb | 5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 55 m (180 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Urban | 17,378 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Eircode (Routing Key) | D6W |
| Irish Grid Reference | O118292 |
Templeogue (from Irish: Teach Mealóg, meaning "New Church of Saint Mel") is a suburb of southwest Dublin in Ireland. The original Irish language name Teach Mealóg refers to a chapel named after Saint Mel that was built there in about 1273.
Templeogue is surrounded by the adjacent suburbs of Ballyroan, Butterfield, Firhouse, Greenhills, Kimmage, Knocklyon, Limekiln, Old Orchard, Perrystown, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Terenure, Tymon, and Whitehall. The three main routes through Templeogue are the R112 regional road (Templeville Road), the R137 regional road (Templeogue Road), and the R817 regional road (Cypress Grove Road & Wainsfort Road).
It is 6.0 kilometres (3.7 mi) 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 55m (180 feet) above sea level and occupies an area of 534 hectares. The River Dodder forms the southern border with Rathfarnham while the River Poddle forms the northern border with Greenhills and Kimmage.
Prominent views from Templeogue are of Montpelier Hill 5.7 km (3.5 mi) to the southwest, topped by the ruin of the Hellfire Club at 383m (1,257 feet), and of Three Rock Mountain (450m), topped by transmitter masts 7.3 km (4.5 mi) to the southeast.
Templeogue was originally a small village in the rural, southern part of County Dublin. In Elizabethan times it was owned by the Talbot family, who later became prominent as the owners of Mount Talbot. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was owned by the Domviles who controlled access to Dublin's main water supply, the River Dodder, which passed through their estates. In 1801, the Templeogue Road was constructed, originally as a toll road. Urban expansion of Dublin during the 1950s and '60s absorbed the village.
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