Abbotstown (townland)

Abbotstown (Irish: Baile an Aba)[1] is a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock in Fingal, Ireland.

Despite a significant level of suburban development in the wider Dublin 15 area from the 1980s onwards, Abbotstown and Sheephill remained largely undeveloped, as the demesne was held by several state bodies.

[6] By the 17th century the estate had passed to Sir John Dungan who owned one thatched house, several cottages and an old church at Abbotstown.

He was ennobled in 1897 by Queen Victoria as Baron HolmPatrick[8] and Abbotstown House remained the principal seat in Castleknock until 1947 when James Hans Hamilton, 3rd Baron HolmPatrick (1928–1991), lost part of his lands under a Compulsory Purchase Order to allow for the building of James Connolly Memorial Hospital.

[10] In the late 1990s half of the original lands acquired from Lord HolmPatrick by the health board were sold for the construction of Waterville, a private housing development.