placenamesCrumlin
Cromghlinn
Before suburban expansion, Crumlin’s parish supplied limestone to Dublin, supported local classrooms and maintained a clerical residence later put to other uses.
The name
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An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cromghlinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Crumlin · English · main form
Place & story
Stone and flour for the city
Lewis’s 1837 parish account records extensive limestone quarries supplying Dublin and large flour mills at Kimmage. These activities placed Crumlin within the capital’s economy before the later growth of housing estates. His list of residences includes Crumlin House, Crumlin Lodge and the glebe-house. A rath survived in the grounds of R. Smith’s property, showing that the working rural landscape also contained traces of earlier settlement. [2]
Schooling and relief supported by land
A school attached to the church and another under the National Board together taught about 120 boys and eighty girls when Lewis wrote. Parish relief also depended on an older endowment: land left by an unnamed benefactor produced roughly £70 a year for the poor. These arrangements joined teaching and charitable support to the parish’s institutions and property income, rather than to the municipal services associated with later suburban development. [2]
The glebe house changes occupants
The local history group dates Crumlin’s glebe house to 1791, with construction paid for by the Board of First Fruits and the parish. Its directory research places the Reverend James Elliott there between 1831 and 1859. Later occupants had other occupations and uses: the group records Rapid Cleaners and Dyers at the property in 1948–50. The sequence gives the former rectory a history extending beyond its original clerical role. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Uppercross
- Coordinates
- 53.31720, -6.32324
- Mapped area
- 7.33 km²
- Logainm ID
- 890 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Crumlin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Crumlin or Cromlin in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Glebe House: building history and occupants · Crumlin and Walkinstown History Group
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.