placenamesPerrystown
Baile Pheire
Residents of the expanding estates built local sporting organisations around street leagues and the playing ground known as the Eight Acres.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Pheire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Perrystown · English · main form
Place & story
Robert Emmets
Robert Emmets’ fiftieth-anniversary account recalls men meeting in Perrystown in the summer of 1969 to organise Gaelic games for local children. Families moving into the newly built houses supplied enough players for street leagues on the Eight Acres. The club subsequently developed strong ties with local schools and the community centre. [2]
Manortown United
Manortown United grew from residents’ football leagues played on Mountdown Park and Hillsbrook Crescent in 1967. A larger committee formed the club in 1969, combining Manor Estate and Perrystown in its name. Its first schoolboy league matches took place that August. When the club moved to the Eight Acres, volunteers cleared stones from the former quarry to make it playable. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Civil parish
- Crumlin
- Within
- Perrystown
- Coordinates
- 53.30844, -6.31954 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412153 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Perrystown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 50th Anniversary: Focal ón Cathaoirleach · Aodh Ó Conchubhair, chairman, Robert Emmets CLG, 2019
- Club History · Manortown United FC, fiftieth-anniversary history
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-11-01. How this page was prepared.