placenamesNeillstown
Baile Néill
A boxing club founded as the housing estates grew became a lasting local institution and a focus for community support.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Néill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Neillstown · English · main form
Place & story
From temporary rooms to a gym
Neilstown Boxing Club began in 1979. In Stephen Farrell’s anniversary interview, coach Gerard Fleming recalled sharing a foreman’s hut with a karate club, then moving through the old mansion house in Neilstown Park to Saint Peter the Apostle National School. A purpose-built gym followed in 2010. The club marked its forty-fifth anniversary in 2024 by hosting the Celtic Warrior Box Cup at Collinstown College’s sports arena. [2]
A community fundraiser
In April 2022 the Irish Athletic Boxing Association reported that the club had organised a boxing festival for local families who had fled the war in Ukraine. Eighty-four boxers took part. The fundraiser had collected €2,390 when the report appeared, with donations still arriving. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Civil parish
- Clondalkin
- Coordinates
- 53.33642, -6.39352 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412149 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Neillstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Neilstown Boxing Club celebrate 45th anniversary · Stephen Farrell, The Echo, 6 June 2024
- Dublin Boxing Club Raises €2,400 For Local Ukrainian Families · Irish Athletic Boxing Association, 15 April 2022
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-11-30. How this page was prepared.