Coill Dubh
Coill Dubh | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Coill Dubh Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°17′32″N 6°49′03″W / 53.29236°N 6.81752°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Kildare |
| Population | 1,476 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 645 | — |
| 1966 | 786 | +21.9% |
| 1971 | 920 | +17.0% |
| 1981 | 876 | −4.8% |
| 1986 | 772 | −11.9% |
| 1991 | 693 | −10.2% |
| 1996 | 682 | −1.6% |
| 2002 | 592 | −13.2% |
| 2006 | 684 | +15.5% |
| 2011 | 693 | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 746 | +7.6% |
| 2022 | 1,476 | +97.9% |
| [1][2][3][4] | ||
Coill Dubh (Irish pronunciation: [ˌkəil̠ʲ ˈd̪ˠʊw]; meaning "black wood"),[5] also sometimes known as Blackwood,[1][6] is a village in northern County Kildare in Ireland. It is located at the junction of the R403 and R408 regional roads, about 40 km (25 mi) from Dublin. Developed as a planned town in the 1950s to accommodate Bord na Móna employees working in the area, it was one of the fastest growing urban areas in Ireland between the 2016 and 2022 census,[6] with its population doubling from 746 to 1,476.[2][1]
History
[edit]The village was established in 1952, on the townland of Blackwood (Coill Dubh or Coill na Cúirte in Irish)[7] just off the R403 between Prosperous and Timahoe, to accommodate workers on the Bord na Mona works supplying a peat fired power station in Allenwood.[8] It replaced earlier temporary workers camps at Killinthomas, Mucklon and Timahoe, with 160 houses and several shops.[9] Developed alongside nearby Cooleragh,[10] it was the only large settlement to have been founded in County Kildare during the 20th century.
Responsibility for the maintenance of a number of housing developments in the village transferred to Kildare County Council in 2017.[11] Coill Dubh was classified as a "village" in Kildare County Council's 2023-2029 Development Plan.[12]
Sport
[edit]The village is home to Coill Dubh GAA club which, as of 2015, had won the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship eleven times.[13] The local association football (soccer) club, Coill Dubh AFC, was founded in 1978.[14]
See also
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Denneny, Owen; Egan, Liam; Pollard, Patience; Creavin, Ted; Holton, Liam; Byrne, Paddy; Flaherty, Andy; Saunders, Aileen; Clohessy, John (2006), Historical Paths Revisited, Timahoe Historical Society
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Coill Dubh (Blackwood)". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Coill Dubh (Blackwood)". Census 2016. CSO. April 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ http://www.cso.ie/census and www.histpop.org
- ^ "Coill Dubh (Kildare, All Towns, Ireland)". citypopulation.de.
Coill Dubh (Blackwood) Kildare [..2022..] 1,476
- ^ "Coill Dubh / Coill Dubh". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Fastest growing areas identified, including Kildare town that doubled population between two censuses". Irish Times. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ^ "Coill na Cúirte / Blackwood". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ^ "Reunion to mark the origins of Coill Dubh". leinsterleader.ie. Leinster Leader. 13 July 2009. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013.
- ^ "Urbanity and Rurality – The Bord na Móna Villages of Frank Gibney". Bord na Móna Living History. October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ "Coill Dubh and Cooleragh Development Plans" (PDF). Kildare County Council. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ^ "Former Bord Na Mona houses taken in charge by Kildare County Council". Leinster Leader. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ^ Kildare County Council Development Plan 2023-2029 – Chapter 2 – Kildare Core Strategy and Settlement Strategy (PDF), Kildare County Council, p. 31, retrieved 6 March 2025
- ^ "Kildare - Club Titles". hoganstand.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ^ "Coill Dubh Association Football Club - About Us". coilldubhafc.com. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
Founded in 1978, Coill Dubh Association Football Club is a soccer club based in a Bord na Móna village in North Kildare
