What's Positive about Dublin 12

1. Dublin 12 has one of the highest number of parks in the country.
2. The parks and estates of Dublin 12 are built in the shape of a Celtic Cross.
3. Cromwellsfort Road in Walkinstown is named after Oliver Cromwell – his army camped here on the way to Drogheda. The man himself, however, spent the night nearby in Drimnagh Castle.
4. Drimnagh Castle is the only castle in Ireland that still has a moat around it; the moat is now stocked with fish.
5. Crumlin gets its name from the Irish Croimghlinn meaning ‘crooked glen’ – the valley of the river Camac which winds through it.
6. Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin is is Ireland’s biggest children’s hospital: but it is actually in Drimnagh.
7. Walkinstown was originally called after a local farmer called Wilkins.
8. Walkinstown has six and a half pubs – the half being the famous Submarine Bar, part of which is actually in Crumlin.
9. Crumlin Boxing Club, one of the country’s top boxing clubs, was originally founded in the 1930s as the ‘Imperial Tobacco Boxing Club’.
10. Crumlin’s Jewish Cemetery is the national cemetery for Ireland’s Jewish population.
11. Crumlin are the only Dublin team to have ever won the Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship.
12. Writer Brendan Behan used to live in Crumlin; his house in Kildare Road is now marked with a plaque.