Edenmore
Edenmore | |
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Town | |
Edenmore Location in Ireland | |
Coordinates: 53°23′17″N 6°10′59″W / 53.388°N 6.183°WCoordinates: 53°23′17″N 6°10′59″W / 53.388°N 6.183°W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Leinster |
County | County Dublin |
Population (2006) | |
• Urban | 2,760 |
Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
• Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
Edenmore is a locality within Raheny on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, with several housing developments and a large municipal park. It lies within Dublin 5 postal district. Edenmore is also a parish in the Howth deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.It is served by the Church of St Monica.[1]
History
Edenmore was developed by Dublin Corporation in the early 1960s on two of Raheny's townlands, then largely empty. While it is part of Raheny and shown in addresses as Edenmore, Raheny, with its own schools, small shopping centre, Roman Catholic church, health centre and football and boxing clubs, it has a quite distinct identity.
Location and access
Edenmore is bordered by the Ayrfield part of Coolock across the Tonlegee Road to the north, Coolock proper to the north west, Harmonstown west, the core of Raheny to the south and south east, and Donaghmede and Kilbarrack to the north east and east.
Edenmore is serviced by the Dublin Bus routes, 27, 27A and 104. Raheny and Harmonstown DART stations are also both short walking distances away.
Amenities
Edenmore Park, an extensive municipal park, offers a range of sporting facilities, including a pitch and putt course.
74th Edenmore Scouts
Edenmore has a large scout troop consisting of beavers, cubs and scouts. the beaver take place on a Monday night at 6:30pm and have 6–8 years old. the cub pack is on a Wednesday night at 7pm 9–12 years old. scouts take place on a Wednesday night from 7pm and the scouts are age 12–15 years old. The Venture pack take place on a Wednesday night alongside scouts at 7pm but runs another 30mins until 9:00pm and sometimes apart from scouts. Edenmore scouts have moved into a new den in January 2010 located on scouts row. This is situated at the back of the concord pub.
Community Services
The Edenmore Community Development Project is based within Edenmore and adopts Community Development Principles as a means of working towards overall improvements for the area. Details of the work of the Project can be found at http://edenmore.blogspot.com.
Other Community Services operating within the area include:
- St Monicas Community Council
- St Monicas Information Shop
- Edenmore Drugs Intervention Team,
- St Monicas Youth Centre,
- Edenmore Drugs Outreach Team and
- Edenpark Health Centre.
References
- ↑ Website of St. Monica's Infant Girls' School - Edenmore parishsh.
External links
- The Edenmore Community Development Project
- Dublin North East Drugs Task Force (Edenmore Project)
- St Monicas Youth Centre
- Edenpark Surgey
The Edenmore Community Development Project did not receive State support after Jan 2010 which led to the redundancy of 2 staff and the closure of the Project from that point on.