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Blanchardstown

Baile Bhlainséir

Stone bridges and an 1826 advertisement record the canal’s role in Blanchardstown’s working landscape.

Recorded locationBlanchardstown53.38279° N · 6.37722° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homestead

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

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

  • Baile Bhlainséir · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Blanchardstown · English · main form

Place & story

Granard Bridge

Granard Bridge carries a road over the Royal Canal in Blanchardstown townland. The architectural inventory dates this single-arched granite bridge to around 1810. Its humpback profile reflects the need to raise the road over the waterway. [2]

Talbot Bridge

Talbot Bridge provides another crossing nearby. The inventory records its construction in 1819, a date also marked on a limestone plaque. Granite and limestone form its single humpback arch, with lock gates immediately to the west. These two bridges are separate structures, each recorded within Blanchardstown townland. [3]

Water power at the twelfth lock

An advertisement dated 31 July 1826 offered a bleaching and flour mill beside the twelfth lock for sale or lease. The transcribed notice places it on the canal’s northern bank adjoining the bridge on the new road to Blanchardstown. It promoted surplus lock water as a power supply. This was the seller’s commercial description, rather than an independent measurement of the mill’s output. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Dublin
Civil parish
Castleknock
Coordinates
53.38279, -6.37722
Mapped area
1.83 km²
Logainm ID
1412097 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Blanchardstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Granard Bridge,NIAH11354002,2000survey · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Talbot Bridge,NIAH11354003,2000survey · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  4. Blanchardstown Mills:transcribed advertisement31July1826 · Dublin Mercantile Advertiser and Weekly Price Current, transcribed by Irish Waterways History
  5. 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.