Cabra, Dublin
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Cabra is a suburb on the northside
of Dublin city in Ireland
. It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the city centre, in the administrative area of Dublin City Council
. It was commonly known as Cabragh until the early 20th century.
Super route 46A also stops close by on North Circular Road, while the 4, 19, 19a, 83 and 140 serve nearby Phibsboro.
Suburban rail stops in the rundown Broombridge railway station
in Cabra, en route to Maynooth
. As part of the government's Transport 21
strategy, there are plans to extend the Dublin light rail
system, Luas
. By linking the present "red line" to Dublin Airport
, there would be stops at local areas like Liffey Junction
and the new Dublin Institute of Technology
development at Grangegorman
.
The main Dublin to Cavan road the N3 travels through Cabra linking up with M50 Junction 6 Blanchardstown.
of Cabra is in the civil parish
of Castleknock
which is in turn in the Barony of Castleknock
. The barony
(an old administrative division) is one of seven and a half comprising County Dublin
and stretches from Cabra to Blanchardstown
(from east to west) and from Finglas
to Chapelizod
(from north to south).
For hundreds of years Old Cabra Road ran through quiet peaceful farmland and it was not until the 1920's that large scale housing developments took place.
Quarry Road was originally called Quarry Lane after a small quarry which was situated near where the current statue of Our Blessed Lady is located at the roundabout with Fassaugh Road (which originally was called Fassaugh Lane.) This quarry was filled in the early part of the 1900's and the family who lived in the Homestead grew cabbages on the reclaimed land.
Cabragh House was located where the current Canon Burke Senior Citizens Flat's complex stands. Completed in 1598 it was first occupied by the Seagrave Family, who could trace their linage back to the Viking invasion of Ireland. The mansion was the home of the hanging judge Lord Norbery until he died in 1831 and unusually for Catholics at the time the Seagrave family managed to acquire it again. Charles Segrave, whose son was the famous racing driver Henry Segrave
,who was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously, lived there until 1912. The big house was bought by Dublin Corporation by way of a CPO in 1939 for the constuction of local authority housing and the historic household was raised to the ground.
The Industrial Revolution brought the construction of the Royal Canal in 1790 and the laying of the Dublin-Galway railway line of which both went through the heart of the area. From about 1880-1930, Cabra was a prominent market garden centre and a giant lairage, where cattle being brought to market at Hanlon's Corner were kept in pens and grazing fields.
Much of Cabra was built in the 1940s as a building programme for public housing by Dublin Corporation
. Before it was built, the area mostly comprised fields and open countryside on the edge of the city and in the townland of Grangegorman. Many of the people who moved to the new suburb were from the rooms and tenement buildings of the city centre.
, world champion boxer Steve Collins
, author and journalist Gene Kerrigan
, actor Michael Gambon
, actress and singer Angeline Ball
, singer Dickie Rock
and WWE Superstar Sheamus, real name Stephen Farrelly, who is a fluent Irish
speaker.
Numerous footballers hail from Cabra, including Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper Wayne Henderson
. Also, Eamonn Fagan
and Liam Whelan
, both from St. Attracta's Road. Liam was one of the Manchester United Busby Babes
who died in the Munich air disaster
of 1958. Connaught Bridge was later renamed in memory of Liam Whelan. The former Leeds United and Irish player and manager John Giles also originally hails from the area. Roddy Collins
, former manager of Bohemians
, Shamrock Rovers
and Maltese side Floriana lived in Cabra before being appointed manager of Cork City.
The suburbs most infamous former resident was John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury
, otherwise known as the hanging judge, who lived at Cabragh House on the corner of the present day Fassaugh Avenue and Rathoath Road. He constantly harrangued and insulted Robert Emmet
before sentencing him to death, never lislened to any defence for those appearing before him and meted out the death sentence for the most trivial offences. Where he could not in law impose a death penalty, he ordered deportation to Australia
. At a single assizes he sentenced to death 198 individuals, laughing and joking as if the whole thing was a comedy.
One of the world's most famous mathematicians, William Rowan Hamilton
, who freed algebra from the commutative postulate of multiplication-that the order or sequence of factors does not determine the result was associated with the area. There is a plaque in his honour at the Broom Bridge
.
beans factory.
Given the historical importance of the mathematical contribution, mathematicians have been known to make a pilgrimage of sorts to the site.
Northside (Dublin)
The Northside is the area in County Dublin, Ireland bounded to the south by the River Liffey to the east by Dublin Bay, to the north and west by the boundaries of County Dublin.- Introduction :...
of Dublin city in Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
. It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the city centre, in the administrative area of Dublin City Council
Dublin City Council
Dublin City Council is the local authority for the city of Dublin in Ireland. It has 52 members and is the largest local authority in Ireland. Until 2001, it was known as Dublin Corporation.-Legal status:...
. It was commonly known as Cabragh until the early 20th century.
Transport and access
Cabra is served by Dublin Bus. The 2 main routes for the area are the 120 Ashtown via Cabra West/East to Parnell Street and 122 Ashington, Cabra West/East, City to Drimnagh. Routes 38/a/b and Nitelink 39N serve Cabra Road, while 37,39,39a,70, 70x 70N serve Navan RoadSuper route 46A also stops close by on North Circular Road, while the 4, 19, 19a, 83 and 140 serve nearby Phibsboro.
Suburban rail stops in the rundown Broombridge railway station
Broombridge railway station
Broombridge is a railway station serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland. Unlike most stations in Ireland, it is a halt. It lies on the southern bank of the Royal Canal at the western end of what had been Liffey Junction station on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway...
in Cabra, en route to Maynooth
Maynooth
Maynooth is a town in north County Kildare, Ireland. It is home to a branch of the National University of Ireland, a Papal University and Ireland's main Roman Catholic seminary, St. Patrick's College...
. As part of the government's Transport 21
Transport 21
Transport 21 is an Irish infrastructure plan, announced in November 2005. It aims to greatly expand Ireland's transport network. A cost estimate of €34 billion was attached to the plan at the time....
strategy, there are plans to extend the Dublin light rail
Light rail
Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...
system, Luas
Luas
Luas , also promoted in the development stage as the Dublin Light Rail System, is a tram or light rail system serving Dublin, the first such system in the decades since the closure of the last of the Dublin tramways. In 2007, the system carried 28.4 million passengers, a growth of 10% since...
. By linking the present "red line" to Dublin Airport
Dublin Airport
Dublin Airport, , is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority. Located in Collinstown, in the Fingal part of County Dublin, 18.4 million passengers passed through the airport in 2010, making it the busiest airport in the Republic of Ireland, followed by Cork and Shannon...
, there would be stops at local areas like Liffey Junction
Liffey Junction
Liffey Junction is a former railway station and junction on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway in Dublin, Ireland.The station opened in 1864 upon the opening of the Liffey Line from this point to the River Liffey at the North Wall, Dublin...
and the new Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology was established officially in 1992 under the but had been previously set up in 1978 on an ad-hoc basis. The institution can trace its origins back to 1887 with the establishment of various technical institutions in Dublin, Ireland...
development at Grangegorman
Grangegorman
Grangegorman Development Agency is an agency of the Government of Ireland charged with redevelopment of the Grangegorman Campus, formerly within the curtilage of St. Brendan's Hospital...
.
The main Dublin to Cavan road the N3 travels through Cabra linking up with M50 Junction 6 Blanchardstown.
History
The townlandTownland
A townland or bally is a small geographical division of land used in Ireland. The townland system is of Gaelic origin—most townlands are believed to pre-date the Norman invasion and most have names derived from the Irish language...
of Cabra is in the civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...
of Castleknock
Castleknock
Castleknock is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is in the west of the modern administrative county of Fingal within the traditional county of Dublin. It is located west of the centre of Dublin....
which is in turn in the Barony of Castleknock
Barony of Castleknock
The Barony of Castleknock meaning "Cnucha's Castle" is one of the baronies of Ireland, an historical geographical unit of land. It takes its name from the suburban village of the same name - Castleknock. The town with the biggest population in the barony is Blanchardstown.-Location:It is one of...
. The barony
Barony (Ireland)
In Ireland, a barony is a historical subdivision of a county. They were created, like the counties, in the centuries after the Norman invasion, and were analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. In early use they were also called cantreds...
(an old administrative division) is one of seven and a half comprising County Dublin
County Dublin
County Dublin is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Dublin Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the...
and stretches from Cabra to Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown is a large suburb of Dublin in the district of Fingal, Ireland. It is within the historical barony of Castleknock. It is located 10 km north-west of the city centre. The suburb is in the Dublin 15 postal area, the Dublin West electoral constituency, and Fingal County...
(from east to west) and from Finglas
Finglas
-See also:* List of towns and villages in Ireland* List of abbeys and priories in Ireland...
to Chapelizod
Chapelizod
Chapelizod is a picturesque Irish village preserved within the city of Dublin, Ireland. It lies in the verdant wooded valley of the River Liffey, on the way to the slopes of the Strawberry Beds, below the Phoenix Park. The village is associated with Iseult of Ireland and the location of Iseault's...
(from north to south).
For hundreds of years Old Cabra Road ran through quiet peaceful farmland and it was not until the 1920's that large scale housing developments took place.
Quarry Road was originally called Quarry Lane after a small quarry which was situated near where the current statue of Our Blessed Lady is located at the roundabout with Fassaugh Road (which originally was called Fassaugh Lane.) This quarry was filled in the early part of the 1900's and the family who lived in the Homestead grew cabbages on the reclaimed land.
Cabragh House was located where the current Canon Burke Senior Citizens Flat's complex stands. Completed in 1598 it was first occupied by the Seagrave Family, who could trace their linage back to the Viking invasion of Ireland. The mansion was the home of the hanging judge Lord Norbery until he died in 1831 and unusually for Catholics at the time the Seagrave family managed to acquire it again. Charles Segrave, whose son was the famous racing driver Henry Segrave
Henry Segrave
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,who was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously, lived there until 1912. The big house was bought by Dublin Corporation by way of a CPO in 1939 for the constuction of local authority housing and the historic household was raised to the ground.
The Industrial Revolution brought the construction of the Royal Canal in 1790 and the laying of the Dublin-Galway railway line of which both went through the heart of the area. From about 1880-1930, Cabra was a prominent market garden centre and a giant lairage, where cattle being brought to market at Hanlon's Corner were kept in pens and grazing fields.
Much of Cabra was built in the 1940s as a building programme for public housing by Dublin Corporation
Dublin Corporation
Dublin Corporation , known by generations of Dubliners simply as The Corpo, is the former name given to the city government and its administrative organisation in Dublin between 1661 and 1 January 2002...
. Before it was built, the area mostly comprised fields and open countryside on the edge of the city and in the townland of Grangegorman. Many of the people who moved to the new suburb were from the rooms and tenement buildings of the city centre.
Famous former residents
Famous people from Cabra include singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoyEleanor McEvoy
Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary singer/songwriters. McEvoy composed the song Only A Woman's Heart, title track of A Woman's Heart, the best-selling Irish album in Irish history.-Biography:...
, world champion boxer Steve Collins
Steve Collins
Stephen Collins, more commonly known as Steve Collins, is a former professional boxer. Known as the "The Celtic Warrior", Collins is the former WBO middleweight and super middleweight champion....
, author and journalist Gene Kerrigan
Gene Kerrigan
Gene Kerrigan is an Irish journalist and novelist who grew up in Cabra in Dublin. His works include political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s in such publications as Magill magazine and the Sunday Independent newspaper. He has also written about Ireland for International Socialism magazine...
, actor Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlowe in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as...
, actress and singer Angeline Ball
Angeline Ball
Angeline Ball is an award-winning Irish actress who currently resides in London, England. She is a trained dancer in ballet, tap and modern dance. Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she starred alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher as back-up singer Imelda Quirke in Alan...
, singer Dickie Rock
Dickie Rock
Dickie Rock is an Irish singer. He experienced much success on the Irish charts during the 1960s, but has continued on as a popular live act as well as occasionally hitting the charts ever since.-Early fame:...
and WWE Superstar Sheamus, real name Stephen Farrelly, who is a fluent Irish
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
speaker.
Numerous footballers hail from Cabra, including Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper Wayne Henderson
Wayne Henderson
Wayne Henderson is an Irish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-Personal life:Born in Dublin, Henderson comes from a family of goalkeepers. His father Paddy played for Shamrock Rovers in the 1960s, and older brothers Dave and Stephen played with great success in the League of Ireland in...
. Also, Eamonn Fagan
Eamonn Fagan
Eamonn Fagan is a former Irish football player.He played for Shamrock Rovers F.C. as a defender between 1970 and 1975. Later moved to Athlone Town A.F.C.....
and Liam Whelan
Liam Whelan
William Augustine Whelan , also known as Billy Whelan or Liam Whelan, was an Irish footballer and one of the eight Manchester United players who were killed in the Munich air disaster...
, both from St. Attracta's Road. Liam was one of the Manchester United Busby Babes
Busby Babes
The Busby Babes were a group of Manchester United players, recruited and trained by the club's chief scout Joe Armstrong and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy, who progressed from the club's youth team into the first team under the management of the eponymous Matt Busby.The Busby Babes were notable...
who died in the Munich air disaster
Munich air disaster
The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes",...
of 1958. Connaught Bridge was later renamed in memory of Liam Whelan. The former Leeds United and Irish player and manager John Giles also originally hails from the area. Roddy Collins
Roddy Collins
Roderick 'Roddy' Collins , is a Irish former professional football player and current manager of Monaghan United. He has also worked as a television pundit, and is the brother of acclaimed former boxer, Steve Collins....
, former manager of Bohemians
Bohemian F.C.
Bohemian F.C. , more commonly referred to as Bohemians, is a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. Bohemians compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the third most successful club in League of Ireland football history, having won the League of Ireland title 11...
, Shamrock Rovers
Shamrock Rovers F.C.
Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in Irish football history. The club have won the League of Ireland title a record 17 times and the FAI Cup a record 24...
and Maltese side Floriana lived in Cabra before being appointed manager of Cork City.
The suburbs most infamous former resident was John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury
John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury
John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury PC, KC , known as The Lord Norbury between 1800 and 1827, was an Irish lawyer, politician and judge. A greatly controversial figure in his time, he was Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas between 1800 and 1827...
, otherwise known as the hanging judge, who lived at Cabragh House on the corner of the present day Fassaugh Avenue and Rathoath Road. He constantly harrangued and insulted Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader born in Dublin, Ireland...
before sentencing him to death, never lislened to any defence for those appearing before him and meted out the death sentence for the most trivial offences. Where he could not in law impose a death penalty, he ordered deportation to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. At a single assizes he sentenced to death 198 individuals, laughing and joking as if the whole thing was a comedy.
One of the world's most famous mathematicians, William Rowan Hamilton
William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra. His studies of mechanical and optical systems led him to discover new mathematical concepts and techniques...
, who freed algebra from the commutative postulate of multiplication-that the order or sequence of factors does not determine the result was associated with the area. There is a plaque in his honour at the Broom Bridge
Broom Bridge
Broom Bridge, also known as Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. Broom Bridge is named after William Brougham, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company...
.
Commerce
Cabra West has many factories in the industrial park and also along Bannow Road, one of the most famous of these being the BatchelorsBatchelors
For unrelated subjects with similar spelling see Bachelor.Batchelors is a brand of predominantly dried food products. It was formerly a Company founded in 1895 in Sheffield, England. The company now makes instant soup, in particular Cup A Soup and noodle products such as Super Noodles. The company...
beans factory.
Noteworthy locations
- Broom BridgeBroom BridgeBroom Bridge, also known as Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. Broom Bridge is named after William Brougham, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company...
, also known as Brougham Bridge, is a small bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra. The bridge is named after William Broom, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company. Broom Bridge is the location where Sir William Rowan HamiltonWilliam Rowan HamiltonSir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra. His studies of mechanical and optical systems led him to discover new mathematical concepts and techniques...
first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternionQuaternionIn mathematics, the quaternions are a number system that extends the complex numbers. They were first described by Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space...
s on October 16, 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. The text on the plaque reads:
Given the historical importance of the mathematical contribution, mathematicians have been known to make a pilgrimage of sorts to the site.
Local organisations
- Order of Malta Ambulance Corps local branch, providing training in first-aid and nursing skills, and voluntary community care services, and a related national youth organisation, the Order of Malta Cadets
- The FÁS training centre, present in Cabra since 1978, was closed down on December 24th, 2010. Courses, staff and instructors were sent to other training centres around the city. One of the apprenticeship courses, Construction Plant Fitting, has since been moved to a temporary home in Baldoyle, near the FÁS Baldoyle Training Centre. Visit the CP Fitters' website here
- Christ the King GNS. Local girls primary school (GNS) see Education in the Republic of IrelandEducation in the Republic of IrelandThe levels of education in Ireland are primary, secondary and higher education. In recent years further education has grown immensely. Growth in the economy since the 1960s has driven much of the change in the education system. Education in Ireland is free at all levels, including college , but...
.