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Rockfield Park is a park located in Beaumont. It was built to serve the 3 neighbouring estates of Elm Mount, Whitethorn and Thorndale, all of which were built around the perimeter of Rockfield. It is home to Rockfield Park Tennis Club and Artane Beaumont Football Club. Founded in 1978 in St. Fiacra's School, the 140th Scouts Beaumont, a member of Scouting Ireland is based in Montrose Park. Celtic Park F.C. is based in Beaumont and plays games in Beaumont Woods (Mercy College, Beaumont), St. Kevin's Boys Club, plays some matches in Coolgrena, Beaumont. Beaumont Tak Kwon do centre is based in Our Lady of Mercy College, Beaumont. Elm Mount F.C., based in Beaumont, plays its games in ALSAA, and at the Ierne Sports Club in Drumcondra. Beaumont Bridge Club, use the Donnycarney/Beaumont Care Centre, St. John's Court, off the Malahide Road.
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The Artane and Beaumont Family Recreation Centre is a community centre at the junction of Skelly's Lane, and Kilmore Road, it is used for a variety of social activities, music societies, childcare, afterschool homework club as well as sporting activities such as Basketball, Volleyball and Badminton.
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on part of their land of the Beaumont estate, is located beside the hospital. St. Fiachra's Junior and Senior Schools (established in 1978) are also located near the hospital and the church, and St. Pauls Special School is also here. Boys secondary schools that serve the area are St. Davids CBS in
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RTÉ had a radio transmitter in Thorndale, Beaumont (off Beaumont Road, where Collinswood estate is now), from which from 1982 broadcast RTÉ Radio 2 on 1278 kHz AM to the Dublin region, it ceased broadcasting on 15 December 2003. RTÉ used the Beaumont facility to jam radio signals from pirate
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Beaumont is mainly a residential area consisting of large housing estates, the first large development in the area being Elm Mount Estate (1960s), Beaumont Woods - a recent development which houses Beaumont Medical Centre and is located next to Beaumont Hospital - Collinswood and Ardmore and
104:. Guinness took 51 acres (210,000 m) "more or less situate in the Parish of Coolock" on a lease for the longer of 31 years or three lives, and built a house "at Kilmore"; it is apparent that he later named the property "Beaumont". His rent was £93 p.a. 193:
as his motorcade passed by during his visit to Ireland in 1979. Beaumont Parish, St. Luke the Evangelist(Kilmore), and Holy Child(Whitehall) form a cluster of parishes. Beaumont Parish centre is used by a number of organisations. The nearest
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Beaumont was originally a farm in the Civil Parish of Coolock, between the townlands of Kilmore Big and Kilmore Little. It is the former home of the
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in 1764, as they made their new family home in Beaumont House, a protected structure and can be visited today.
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The name is derived from the French for "beautiful mount" as the parish is located atop an ascent from
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NLI, Genealogical Office, Gardiner Papers; manuscript 36,578/15. Lease dated 8 May 1764.
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is a small park in the Beaumont Woods estate dedicated to the Sisters of Mercy founder.
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An all-girls school, Our Lady of Mercy College, Beaumont, founded in 1957 by the
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who opened a convalescent home there to provide aftercare for patients from the
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A former home of Arthur Guinness, which he built in 1764 and named
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and is inspired by its clean air and views across Dublin to the
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Beaumont is the location of one of Dublin's main hospitals,
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Index

Irish
northside
Dublin
Ireland
Donnycarney
Santry
Artane
Dublin 9
Fairview
Wicklow Mountains
Arthur Guinness
Guinness family
lease
Charles Gardiner
National Library of Ireland
Sisters of Mercy
Mater Hospital

Beaumont Hospital
parish
Fingal South East deanery
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
Pope John Paul II
Church of Ireland
Coolock
Santry
Sisters of Mercy
Arthur Guinness
Paddy Mulligan
Gavin Kilkenny

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