Located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the city centre, Inchicore was originally a small village separate from Dublin.

Inchicore is a largely residential area and is home to the association football club St Patrick's Athletic FC.

[1] In the late 19th century, the village developed into a significant industrial and residential suburb, due primarily to its engineering works and the west city tramway terminus.

[2] The Great Southern and Western Railway, which began constructing its network in 1844, elected to site its workshops in the then countryside at Inchicore outside the built-up suburbs of Dublin.

It flows east through Inchicore, and on through Kilmainham and under Bow Bridge, falling into the River Liffey under Heuston Station.

[5] Other watercourses in the area include the Creosote Stream, which passes through the railworks, and comes to the Liffey at the western end of the Gardens of Remembrance.

[8] Inchicore Railway Works is the headquarters for mechanical engineering and rolling stock maintenance for Iarnród Éireann.

Established in 1844 by the Great Southern & Western Railway, it is the largest engineering complex of its kind in Ireland with a site area of 295,000 m2 (73 acres).

In 2010, 7 historic parishes, in three unions, all grouped as the St. Patrick's Cathedral Group, were severed from the cathedral and established as the new Parish of St. Catherine and St. James with St. Audeon, served by St. Audeon's Church, Cornmarket, and St. Catherine and St. James' Church on Donore Avenue.

A plaque marks the house where he wrote some of Inchicore Haiku near Richmond Park, home to St. Patrick's Athletic Football Club.

[14] Another Irish poet, Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021), was born and lived on Phoenix Street in Inchicore as a child.

[16] The courts-martial of a number of figures in the 1916 Rebellion, including poet Patrick Pearse, took place in Richmond Barracks.

Goldenbridge is the burial place of modern Ireland's first head of government, President of the Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave, who died in 1965.

[23] This co-educational Catholic school,[24] under the trusteeship of CEIST, is located on Thomas Davis Street West, off Emmet Road.

[citation needed] St. Patrick's Athletic (founded in 1929 and commonly known as St. Pat's) play in Richmond Park.

St. Pat's has played in Inchicore since 1930 (save for time spent exiled due to ground redevelopment).

[citation needed] Former St. Pat's players include Paul McGrath, Ronnie Whelan Snr., Shay Gibbons, Gordon Banks, Curtis Fleming, Paul Osam, Eddie Gormley, Charles Livingstone Mbabazi, Ryan Guy, Keith Fahey, Kevin Doyle, Christy Fagan, Chris Forrester and Ian Bermingham.

[citation needed] The 1889 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final between Tipperary and Laois was played at what is now the Inchicore Sports and Social Club.

The club plays home games at East Timor Park on Sarsfield Road in Inchicore.

[28] Teams taking part in Dublin Roller Derby league train and teach skating in Inchicore Community Sports Centre.

Inchicore is passed on its southern edge by the Grand Canal, developed by economic progressives of the day and that was, at its peak, the major passenger and commercial trading route through central Ireland, running through the productive farmlands and peat bogs of the Irish midlands.