Clonskeagh or Clonskea (/klɒnˈskiː/; Irish: Cluain Sceach, meaning "meadow of the Whitethorn"), is a small southern suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
[citation needed] Clonskeagh is a townland in the civil parish of Donnybrook in the traditional barony of Dublin.
[citation needed] In the mid-1970s, Clonskeagh consisted of low-density housing with significant areas of private open land, largely owned by the Catholic Church.
[citation needed] There is a mid-20th century Catholic church on Bird Avenue, and the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland and its associated primary school are on Roebuck Road.
St. Kilians Deutsche Schule and the secondary campus of the Lycée Français d'Irlande[2] share a "Eurocampus" in Roebuck Road, offering private schooling in a multicultural and multilingual environment, claimed to be unique to Ireland.