placenamesGreenhills
Na Glaschnoic
The 1911 return records Greenhills in Crumlin parish, within Terenure electoral division.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Na Glaschnoic · Irish · main form · validated name
- Greenhills · English · main form
Place & story
Fifty inhabitants in 1911
Greenhills had fifty inhabitants in 1911, twenty-nine male and twenty-one female, living in ten occupied houses. The census recorded five houses and twelve people in 1891, followed by four houses and fifteen people in 1901. It gave the townland’s area as 188 acres and eleven perches. Greenhills belonged to Crumlin parish and Uppercross barony, within Terenure electoral division, Crumlin dispensary district and the county portion of Dublin South Poor Law Union. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Civil parish
- Crumlin
- Coordinates
- 53.31278, -6.33590
- Mapped area
- 0.76 km²
- Logainm ID
- 17466 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Greenhills. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Dublin, Table VII, printed page 25 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.