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Kimmage (Irish: Camaigh) is a small suburb on the Southside of Dublin near to Harold's Cross, Rathfarnham, Greenhills, Templeogue, Terenure and Crumlin. Kimmage comes from the Gaelic 'Cam uisce' which means winding river. The River Poddle flows through Kimmage, which then goes on to a confluence with the River Liffey. The area lies in postal districts Dublin 12 & Dublin 6w.

Destinations from Kimmage
Dolphin's Barn Harold's Cross Rathmines
Crumlin Rathgar
   Kimmage    
Perrystown Terenure Rathfarnham

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Features and facilities

KCR

The most famous landmark of the area is the KCR or Kimmage Cross Roads, which has been a petrol station and a shop since at least the 1960s. It is located at the cross roads of Terenure Road West, Kimmage Road West, Fortfield Road and the Lower Kimmage Road.

Shopping

There is one main shopping area for residents, on Lower Kimmage Road, with many shops and services such as barbers, takeaways, and garage. The Superquinn shopping centre on Sundrive road includes extensive parking and 12 shops.

Historical features

There once was a cinema in Kimmage, The Apollo which was on Sundrive Road. It has subsequently been demolished and there are now office blocks and apartment buildings in its place. The Stoneboat pub is one of the area's best known landmarks. It is named for the boat-shaped 19th century improvement to the medieval diversion of the river Poddle.

History

The Plunkett family house in Kimmage was used as a clearing station for arms imported in 19141. It was from here that a car-load of volunteers left Dublin to meet the shipment of arms from the Aud in County Kerry just before the Rising. An Irish Volunteers secret camp the "Kimmage Garrison" was set up in the area by Joseph Mary Plunkett and his brother George Oliver Plunkett with draft-dodgers from England and men-on-the-run living rough for three months in a mill on Count Plunkett's farm at Larkhill in Kimmage where they manufactured home-made bombs, bayonets and pikes. Famously on Easter Monday Captain George Plunkett waved down a tram at with his revolver at Harold's Cross ordered on his ruffians armed with shotguns, pikes and homemade bombs, took out his wallet and said "Fifty-two tuppenny tickets to the city centre please".2 Arriving at Liberty Hall in style they were organised into four companies and with a hundred other Volunteers marched with James Connolly and Patrick Pearse to seize the GPO, where they remained thoughout the Rising.3 The mill was in recent years replaced by the SuperQuinn supermarket.

Sport

  • Lorcan O'Toole Park is the main sports ground in the area located in the KCR.

Popular culture

Kimmage was famous as one of the two cheapest properties on the Irish version of Monopoly, but has now been removed in favour of Rathfarnham in the newer edition. Kimmage's working-class way of life is recorded in a popular Irish folk song of the same name, covered by the Dubliners among many other bands.

Notable people associated with Kimmage

  • Trevor Garry-Republic of Ireland youth goalkeeper
  • Gay Mitchell-Fine Gael TD
  • Joseph Mary Plunkett(1887–1916), One of the leaders of the Easter Rising, had a family property on Sundrive Cross Roads which was demolished and replaced by a Superquinn Supermarket in recent years. It was a training ground for the Rebels in the run up to the Rising.

References

  1. ^ Who were the men who signed the Proclamation?
  2. ^ p41, Michael McNally: Easter Rising 1916, Birth of the Irish Republic (Campaign 180), Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2007
  3. ^ http://www.xiles.biz/profile.html

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Coordinates: 53°19′00″N 6°17′20″W / 53.3166667°N 6.28889°W / 53.3166667; -6.28889

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