Greenhills

Greenhills

Greenhills is an suburb of Dublin which was mostly farmland until the 1950s and 1960s, when new housing estates were built The Greenhills road runs from Tallaght village to the Walkinstown Roundabout. The Poddle flows under the Greenhills Road near St. Mary Priory in Tallaght and enters Greenhills at Tymon Park.

Association with Poddle

The river flows under the Greenhills Road and through parts or Greenhills which is an large area including parts of Tymon down to Templeville Road.

What the Newspapers Say

  • The were a small number of newspaper articles related to a local school and also a community cleanup. In most likelihood the cleanup took part in the Poddle in Tymon Park.
Related newspaper articles
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Mills at Kimmage
12 Nov 1970

The course of the Poddle is generally traced to the Green Hills beyond Drimnagh (now largely removed by the gravel men) or to the hillock on which once stood Tymon…

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Residents a help to St. Peters
13 Aug 1971

OUR SUMMER SERIES on Schools’ League champions takes us this week to one of the most recent additions to the League, St. Peter’s N.S., Walkinstown, who are holders of the…

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Firhouse Weir
2 Aug 1972

This is the Firhouse Weir on the River Dodder which was of vital importance to every citizen of Dublin for the best part of eight hundred years. This remarkable piece…

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Operation Clean-Up on the Poddle
13 Jul 1976

Operation Clean-Up On The Poddle Children from Greenhills parish, Dublin, removing debris from the Poddle river at Greenhills under the watchful eye of Timmie O’Neill, organiser of the clean-up.

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