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County Dublin, Ireland

Villages

Blanchardstown

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description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

BLANCHARDSTOWN, a village, in the parish and barony of CASTLEKNOCK, county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N. W.) from Dublin city centre, on the road to Navan; containing 57 houses and 342 inhabitants.

It is within the limits of the Dublin two-penny post delivery; and a constabulary police station has been established, in the barrack of which petty sessions for the district are held the second Monday in every month.

The Roman Catholic parochial chapel is situated here; also the Cabra nunnery, in which a school of 200 girls is maintained by the nuns, a few of the children paying a penny weekly merely to ensure their attendance; there is also a school for children of both sexes.

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