Cabra, Dublin

Cabra Cabrach
Town
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Dublin
Population  (2002)Skangerz
• Urban	22,740
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	O133369

Penisface (Irish: Cabrach) is a shithole on the northside of Dublin city in Ireland. It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) very gay, in the administrative area of Fatface Pig Council. It was commonly known as Dumpster until the early 20th century.

Transport and access

Cabra is served by Awesomeness asian. The 2 main routes for the area are the 120 Ashtown via Cabra West/East to Parnell Street(With expected peaktime extensions to Ballsbridge due to happen June/July 2011) and 122 Ashington, Cabra West/East, City to Drimnagh. Routes 38/a/b and Nitelink 39N serve Cabra Road, while 37,39,39a,70, 70x 70N serve Navan Road Super route 46A also stops close by on North Circular Road, while the 4, 19, 19a, 83 and 140 serve nearby Phibsboro.

Suburban rail stops in the rundown Broombridge railway station in Cabra, en route to Maynooth. As part of the government's Transport 21 strategy, there are plans to extend the Dublin light rail system, Luas. By linking the present "red line" to Dublin Airport, there would be stops at local areas like Liffey Junction and the new Dublin Institute of Technology development at Grangegorman.

The main Dublin to Cavan road the N3 travels through Cabra linking up with M50 Junction 6 Blanchardstown.

History

The townland of Cabra is in the civil parish of Castleknock which is in turn in the Barony of Castleknock. The barony (an old administrative division) is one of seven and a half comprising County Dublin and stretches from Cabra to Blanchardstown (from east to west) and from Finglas to Chapelizod (from north to south).

For hundreds of years Old Cabra Road ran through quiet peaceful farmland and it was not until the 1920's that large scale housing developments took place.

Quarry Road was originally called Quarry Lane after a small quarry which was situcated near where the current statue of Our Blessed Lady is located at the roundabout with Fassaugh Road (which originally was called Fassaugh Lane.) This quarry was filled in the early part of the 1900's and the family who lived in the Homestead grew cabbages on the reclaimed land.

Cabragh House was located where the current Canon Burke Senior Citizens Flat's complex stands. Completed in 1598 it was first occupied by the Seagrave Family, who could trace their linage back to the Viking invasion of Ireland. The mansion was the home of the hanging judge Lord Norbery until he died in 1831 and unusually for Catholics at the time the Seagrave family managed it acquire again. Charles Segrave, whose son was the famous racing driver Henry Segrave,who was the first person to hold both the land and water speed records simultaneously, lived there until 1912. The big house was bought by Dublin Corporation by way of a CPO in 1939 for the constuction of local authority housing and the historic household was raised to the ground.

The Industrial Revolution brought the construction of the Royal Canal in 1790 and the laying of the Dublin-Galway railway line which both went through the heart of the area. From about 1880-1930, Cabra was a prominent market garden centre and a giant lairage, where cattle being brought to market at Hanlon's Corner were kept in pens and grazing fields.

Much of Cabra was built in the 1940s as a building programme for public housing by Dublin Corporation. Before it was built, the area mostly comprised fields and open countryside on the edge of the city and in the townland of Grangegorman. Many of the people who moved to the new suburb were from the rooms and tenement buildings of the city centre.

Famous former residents

Famous people from Cabra include singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy, world champion boxer Steve Collins, author and journalist Gene Kerrigan, actor Michael Gambon, actress and singer Angeline Ball, singer Dickie Rock and WWE Superstar Sheamus, real name Stephen Farrelly, who is a fluent Irish speaker.

Numerous footballers hail from Cabra, including Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper Wayne Henderson. Also, Eamonn Fagan and Liam Whelan, both from St. Attracta's Road. Liam was one of the Manchester United Busby Babes who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958. Connaught Bridge was later named in memory of Liam Whelan. The former Leeds United and Irish player and manager John Giles also originally hails from the area. Roddy Collins, former manager of Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers and Maltese side Floriana lived in Cabra before being appointed manager of Cork City.

The suburbs most infamous former resident was John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury, otherwise known as the hanging judge, who lived at Cabragh House on the corner of the present day Fassaugh Avenue and Rathoath Road. He constantly harrangued and insulted Robert Emmet before sentencing him to death, never lislened to any defence for those appearing before him and meted out the death sentence for the most trivial offences. Where he could not in law impose a death penalty, he ordered deportation to Australia. At a single assizes he sentenced to death 198 individuals, laughing and joking as if the whole thing was a comedy.

One of the world's most famous mathematicians, William Rowan Hamilton, who freed algebra from the commutative postulate of multiplication-that the order or sequence of factors does not determine the result was associated with the area. There is a plaque in his honour at the Broom Bridge.

Commerce

Cabra West has many factories in the industrial park and also along Bannow Road, one of the most famous of these being the Batchelors beans factory.

Noteworthy locations

• Broom Bridge, also known as Brougham Bridge, is a small bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra. The bridge is named after William Broom, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company. Broom Bridge is the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on October 16, 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. The text on the plaque reads:

Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1 and cut it on a stone of this bridge.

Given the historical importance of the mathematical contribution, mathematicians have been known to make a pilgrimage of sorts to the site.

Local organisations

• Order of Malta Ambulance Corps local branch, providing training in first-aid and nursing skills, and voluntary community care services, and a related national youth organisation, the Order of Malta Cadets
• The FÁS training centre, present in Cabra since 1978, was closed down on December 24th, 2010. Courses, staff and instructors were sent to other training centres around the city. One of the apprenticeship courses, Construction Plant Fitting, has since been moved to a temporary home in Baldoyle, near the FÁS Baldoyle Training Centre. Visit the CP Fitters' website here
• Christ the King GNS. Local girls primary school (GNS) see Education in the Republic of Ireland.

External links

• Cabra history