15 Facts About Santry

Santry is a suburb on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Coolock, Glasnevin, Kilmore and Ballymun.

Santry is the name of a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock.

Santry is an anglicisation of the Irish placename Seantrabh which literally means "old tribe".

In 1581 the lands and title of Santry were awarded to William Nugent who then lost it after falling out of favour with the Crown because of his religion.

In 1620 the lands of Santry were confiscated from Nugent's aristocratic but Catholic offspring, the Barnewalls.

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Santry was the scene of violence in the early months of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when a punitive expedition of Parliamentarians led by Sir Charles Coote mistakenly massacred a group of local farm labourers, who were sleeping in the fields there.

The bloodshed was so bad in this action that the area at the northern gateway to Santry Demesne was known as "Bloody Hollows" for several years after.

In recent decades suburban housing estates have been built around Santry, including most recently some initially controversial developments within Santry Demesne.

Santry Court was an important Jacobean-type early 18th-century house of red brick and stone facings built in 1703 by the 3rd.

Santry received the death penalty but was reprieved and lost his title.

Santry is made up of numerous housing estates which are a mixture of private and social housing, with most estates being made up of the former.

Santry is part of the Whitehall-Larkhill-Santry Roman Catholic parish, served by the Church of the Holy Child opened in 1944, and by Blessed Margaret Ball, Church opened in 1994.

Workers were paid in food and the land was provided by the Domville family of Santry Woods; it is a nursing home.

Santry is the base of a number of sports clubs such as the soccer clubs St Kevin's Boys Club established in 1959 who play in Shanoewn Road, Ellenfield park, Albert College park, Coolgreena and off the Old Airport Road and Lorcan Celtic established in 1987 who play in Lorcan Green, as well Santry TaeKwon-Do who meet in Astro Park.

Santry has long been the location of a number of businesses and industries, from Chrysler and the Talbot factory on Shanowen Road, to IT companies and logistic service providers associated with nearby Dublin Airport.