placenamesLaurel Lodge
Lóiste an Labhrais
The name of an older house lives on in this Castleknock neighbourhood, where parish and community facilities developed in the late twentieth century.
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
- Lóiste an Labhrais · Irish · main form
- Laurel Lodge · English · main form
Place & story
An older house behind the name
The Placenames Database identifies Laurel Lodge as a population centre in Castleknock parish and barony. Its explanatory note traces the name to a large house shown on the nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey six-inch maps and the later twenty-five-inch mapping. [2]
The parish of Saint Thomas
The Archdiocese of Dublin records the establishment of Laurel Lodge parish in 1982. Its church is dedicated to Saint Thomas the Apostle, giving the neighbourhood a distinct parish identity within the expanding Castleknock area. [3]
A shared centre
Castleknock Community Centre was established in Laurel Lodge in 1995 to serve Laurel Lodge and Carpenterstown. The community facilities network places it beside Scoil Thomáis, the church and other neighbourhood services, with spaces for meetings, recreation and community activities. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Civil parish
- Castleknock
- Coordinates
- 0.00000, 0.00000
- Logainm ID
- 1436468 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Laurel Lodge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Laurel Lodge: official explanatory note · Placenames Branch; Government of Ireland
- Laurel Lodge parish history · Archdiocese of Dublin
- Castleknock Community Centre: history · Fingal Community Facilities Network
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2020-05-29. How this page was prepared.