Walkinstown
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Walkinstown Baile Bhailcín
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| Suburb of Dublin | |
The Walkinstown roundabout, leading into Walkinstown town
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 Walkinstown
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| Coordinates: 53°19′32″N 6°20′35″W / 53.3256°N 6.34301°WCoordinates: 53°19′32″N 6°20′35″W / 53.3256°N 6.34301°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Dublin |
| Council | South Dublin County Council |
| Dáil Éireann | Dublin South-Central |
| European Parliament | Dublin |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Urban | 5,910 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
Walkinstown (Irish: Baile Bhailcín) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the Southside of the city, approximately 6 kilometres south-west of Dublin city centre. The suburb borders Crumlin to the east, Drimnagh to the north, Greenhills to the south and Ballymount, Bluebell and Clondalkin to the west. Its postal code is Dublin 12.
Walkinstown is a working class/lower middle class suburb consisting primarily of privately owned residential housing with some social housing remaining in the Dublin City Council area between the Walkinstown and Longmile Roads and Ballymount Lower. It was built as an estate of starter homes after World War 2 with the council housing being developed as social rented homes later in the early to mid fifties.
Light industry, warehousing, car dealerships and commercial outlet stores are concentrated along the Long Mile Road in the western sector of the suburb. The Central Statistics Office census of 2006 recorded a populated of 5910 for the area. The area is very well served with a library, residents' association, sports ground, community centre, schools, pubs, church and retail facilities.
The name of the area is a corruption of Wilkinstown - named after Wilkins, a tenant farmer who lived in the area in the 15th century.The irish name for the area is 'Baile Bhailcín'.
Walkinstown as a suburb is a 20th-century creation. The area was a dairy farm until house building began in the 1930s. Building ended in the area in the 1970s when most of the available land was built upon. The 1950s saw the building of the local Catholic church as well as primary and second schools for boys and girl.
There is some ambiguity as to the full extent of the suburb, with some claiming Walkinstown includes Greenhills, as well as one of three parts of Ballymount.
Greenhills was previously linked to Walkinstown in the Catholic Church structure to make up the Parish of Walkinstown and Greenhills, at a time when Greenhills did not have its own local church. This combined parish ceased to exist when Greenhills acquired its own parish church in 1971. Greenhills is generally regarded now as a separate and distinct suburb, with its own identity and full range of services.
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