Terenure
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Terenure Tír an Iúir
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| Suburb of Dublin | |
 Terenure
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| Coordinates: 53°18′35″N 6°17′07″W / 53.3097°N 6.2853°WCoordinates: 53°18′35″N 6°17′07″W / 53.3097°N 6.2853°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Dublin |
| Council | Dublin City Council |
| Dáil Éireann | Dublin Bay South |
| European Parliament | Dublin |
| Elevation | 54 m (177 ft) |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | O143301 |
Terenure (Irish: Tír an Iúir, meaning "land of the yew tree") is a mainly residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland, largely in the administrative area of Dublin City Council but with parts in the administrative county of South Dublin (within the Terenure-Rathfarnham electoral area).
Terenure is a suburb of Dublin and straddles the administrative areas of Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council. It is located south of Harold's Cross and north of Rathfarnham, and also borders the suburbs of Templeogue, Rathgar, Kimmage and Perrystown.
Terenure Cross (Vaughan's Corner) was at one time a terminus for the city trams, and this is mentioned James Joyce's Ulysses (Episode 7, Aeolus). There were three tram depots in Terenure at one time, the main tram depot for the number 15 DUTC trams on Terenure Road East, another DUTC depot for number 16 trams on Rathfarnham Road, and the terminus of the Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway on Templeogue Road. The modern tram system—the Luas—does not take in Terenure, but it is still served by the numbers 15 and 16 bus, among others.
Terenure, Drimnagh and Kimmage, on the south side of Dublin City, were given to the Barnewell family by King John in 1215. The Barnewells gave some of the land to St John The Baptist Hospital outside Newgate, and Cromwell confiscated the remainder from them. Terenure passed through the hands of various owners since then, including what is now Terenure College (bought by the Carmelites in 1860). In the seventeenth century the main landowners were the Deane family, whose most notable member was Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer; his estates later passed to the Bourne family. Fortfield House was built around 1785 by a later Chief Baron Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore.
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