Edenmore
| Edenmore | |
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 Edenmore
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| Coordinates: 53°23′17″N 6°10′59″W / 53.388°N 6.183°WCoordinates: 53°23′17″N 6°10′59″W / 53.388°N 6.183°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Dublin |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Urban | 2,760 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (WEST) (UTC-1) |
Edenmore is a locality within Raheny on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, with several housing developments and a large municipal park. It lies within Dublin 5 postal district. Edenmore is also a parish in the Howth deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.It is served by the Church of St Monica.
Edenmore was developed by Dublin Corporation in the early 1960s on two of Raheny's townlands, then largely empty. While it is part of Raheny and shown in addresses as Edenmore, Raheny, with its own schools, small shopping centre, Roman Catholic church, health centre and football and boxing clubs, it has a quite distinct identity.
Edenmore is bordered by the Ayrfield part of Coolock across the Tonlegee Road to the north, Coolock proper to the north west, Harmonstown west, the core of Raheny to the south and south east, and Donaghmede and Kilbarrack to the north east and east.
Edenmore is serviced by the Dublin Bus routes, 27, 27A and 104. Raheny and Harmonstown DART stations are also both short walking distances away.
Edenmore Park, an extensive municipal park, offers a range of sporting facilities, including a pitch and putt course.
Edenmore has a large scout troop consisting of beavers, cubs and scouts founded by chief scout colin roden in 1984, the beavers take place on a Monday night at 6:30pm and have 6–8 years old. the cub pack is on a Wednesday night at 7pm 9–12 years old. scouts take place on a Wednesday night from 7pm and the scouts are age 12–15 years old. The Venture pack take place on a Wednesday night alongside scouts at 7pm but runs another 30mins until 9:00pm and sometimes apart from scouts. Edenmore scouts have moved into a new den in January 2010 located on scouts row. This is situated at the back of the concord pub.
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