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Alpine Heights Residents' Association
Notices, events and useful information for everyone living in Alpine Heights. Run by residents, for residents.
Latest notices
[Notice title]
[A short description of the notice: road works, green area maintenance, a reminder about parking, etc.]
[Notice title]
[Another notice.]
Upcoming
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[DD][Mon]
Residents' meeting
[Time] at [venue]. All residents welcome.
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[DD][Mon]
Estate clean-up
[Time], meeting at [location]. Gloves and bags provided.
Estate information
Bin collection
[Day(s) and provider, e.g. general waste every Tuesday; recycling and compost on alternate weeks.]
Reporting issues
Broken street lights, potholes and illegal dumping can be reported to [your county council] or to the committee using the contact details below.
Green areas
[Grass cutting schedule, who maintains the green, any rules about ball games or dogs.]
Parking
[Any parking guidance for the estate, e.g. keeping footpaths and corners clear for emergency vehicles.]
A short history of our area
Alpine Heights is a private estate just off Bawnogue Road, about a kilometre from Clondalkin village. The ground it stands on has a much longer story, from an early Christian monastery and Viking raids to the farmland that became one of Dublin's newest suburbs.
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c. 600 AD
A monastery on the Camac
Clondalkin takes its name from the Irish Cluain Dolcáin, “Dolcán's meadow”. Saint Cronan Mochua is believed to have founded a monastery beside the River Camac around the late 6th or early 7th century. Its round tower still stands in the village today.
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832–1014
The Viking years
Vikings sacked Clondalkin in 832 and burned the monastery. Later in the 9th century, Amlaíb, a Norse king of Dublin, built a fortress here, which Irish forces burned in 867. The district stayed under Norse influence until Brian Boru's victory at Clontarf in 1014.
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1171
The last High King
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland, camped at Clondalkin while trying to retake Dublin from Strongbow's Norman forces.
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1800s
Bawnoges: the “small green field”
Bawnogue takes its name from the old townland of Bawnoges, in Irish Bánóg, a word the 1830s Ordnance Survey glossed as “small green field”. It was a farming townland of about 29 acres in the civil parish of Clondalkin and the barony of Uppercross, next to Clonburris Great, Deansrath and Fairview.
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1946–1981
From village to suburb
As Dublin grew westward, Clondalkin changed fast. Its population went from about 1,000 in 1946 to over 23,000 by 1981, and the fields around Bawnogue became new housing estates.
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1977–1980
A parish of our own
Bawnogue became its own parish, separate from Clondalkin, in 1977. The foundation stone of the Church of the Transfiguration was blessed by Pope John Paul II at Maynooth during his 1979 visit and laid in March 1980. The Spiritan Fathers have served the parish since 1988.
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Today
Alpine Heights
[When was Alpine Heights built, and by whom? Add the estate's own story here: when the first families moved in, how the residents' association started, and memorable events.]
Help us tell the estate's story. If you have memories, old photos or documents from the early days of Alpine Heights, please get in touch with the committee.
Sources: Wikipedia, “Clondalkin”; Archdiocese of Dublin, Bawnogue parish; townlands.ie, Bawnoges townland; logainm.ie (Placenames Database of Ireland).
The committee
James [Surname]
Chair[Name]
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Treasurer[Name]
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Get in touch
Have a question, an issue to raise or an idea for the estate? Email the committee and we'll get back to you. You're also welcome at any residents' meeting.
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