Finglas

Finglas is a residential suburb on the North side of Dublin City in the Republic of Ireland; not to be mistaken with Fingal the county in north Dublin. The name Finglas (Fionn-ghlas in Irish), meaning a clear streamlet, is derived from the rivulet which flows through the village and joins the Tolka at Finglas bridge.

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A couple of miles from Glasnevin, the village of Finglas is on the old coach road to Drogheda - a road still preferred by many cyclists and motorists to the road going by Swords and Balbriggan. In Finglas, the distance to be walked is three kilometers from Hart's Corner

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Finglas was developed to re-house a lot of North Inner-City Dublin inhabitants in the early seventies and eighties. Finglas is also home to Ireland's main international airport.

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