Whitehall, Dublin

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Whitehall
Fionnbhrú

Location

Irish grid reference
O166388

Statistics

Population (2002)

Whitehall (Irish: Fionnbhrú ) is a Northside suburb of Dublin City, Ireland.

Whitehall is on the northern outskirts of Dublin's inner city, located on the N1 road leading to Dublin Airport, Swords and Belfast, between Santry and Drumcondra. North of Whitehall, the N1 becomes a motorway, the M1. The area is adjacent to the major public hospital of Beaumont and to Dublin City University on Collins Avenue.

Whitehall takes its name from a house named White Hall, formerly located to the south of the village on Drumcondra Road Upper. The area commonly known as Whitehall Cross, at the intersection of the Swords Road (N1) (north-south) and Collins Avenue (east-west), is in the townland of Clonturk, and was formerly the site of a public house called The Thatch, whose memory is preserved in the name of a nearby road.

Its most notable features are Plunket College of Further Education, St. Aidan's Christian Brothers School (whose past pupils include the Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and the international footballer Liam Brady), and the Holy Child Roman Catholic Church, which is a well-known landmark to travellers on the N1. The area also houses the home ground of prominent junior football club Home Farm F.C., and St Kevins, the schoolboy club for which Liam Brady, Ian Harte, Stephen Carr and Damien Duff played. Whitehall is also the site for one of the interchanges for the Dublin Port Tunnel with the M1. Dubliners band member Luke Kelly also lived in Whitehall and there is a stone in the area dedicated to him.