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Knocklyon
Sign in to saveKnocklyon () is a suburb of the city of Dublin, located in South Dublin, Ireland. Unlike many Dublin suburbs, Knocklyon was not developed around a village; rather it largely consists of modern housing, with a number of old cottages and farmhouses along Knocklyon Road attesting to the area's rural past.
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- Locality
- Ballyboden
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 14,628
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Knocklyon () is a suburb of the city of Dublin, located in South Dublin, Ireland. Unlike many Dublin suburbs, Knocklyon was not developed around a village; rather it largely consists of modern housing, with a number of old cottages and farmhouses along Knocklyon Road attesting to the area's rural past.
== Etymology == The area has been known historically in 14th-century scrolls as Cnoclín, literally 'flax mountain'. Until recently, roadsigns in Knocklyon had an incorrect "reverse anglicised" translation, giving ''Lyon's hill or Cnoc Liamhna, so for example, the Irish-language wording on signs for Knocklyon Road showed Bóthar Chnoc Liamhna''. The local authority have updated their translation based on recommendations from the Irish Placenames Commission.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Knocklyon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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