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Templeogue is Where the arsehole who took my girlfriend is from.
'''Templeogue''' ([[Irish language|Irish]] ''Teach Mealóg'') is a suburb of southwest [[Dublin]], in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. The [[Irish language|Irish]] means ''St. Melog's house'' or ''church'' - a mediaeval monastery. It is part of the postal district of [[Dublin 6w]], part of the Dublin South West constituency and in the jurisdiction of [[South Dublin]] County Council.
== Location ==
Templeogue lies between the suburbs of [[Terenure]], [[Rathfarnham]], [[Knocklyon]], [[Kimmage]], [[Walkinstown]] and [[Tallaght]]. It is also on the [[N81 road|N81]] [[national secondary road]].
Historically it is separated from [[Tallaght]] by the [[River Dodder]], though it once was part of the Parish of Tallaght {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. A series of pedestrian bridges provide cyclists and pedestrians access to Tallaght Village via the [[M50 motorway (Ireland)|M50]].
It is {{km to mi | 6 | abbr=yes | precision=0 }} from both the city centre to the north and the [[Dublin Mountains]] to the south, and to the coast at [[Dublin Bay]] on the [[Irish Sea]]. It is 180 feet (55 m) above sea level. The [[River Dodder]] forms the southern border with Rathfarnham while the [[River Poddle]] forms the northern border.
The centere of the area is not Templeogue Village, rather it is the Orwell Shopping Centre (Orwell Park Dale) in front of the large recreational field, Orwell Green. {{Fact|date=February 2007}}. One of the most prominent views is of [[Montpelier Hill]] to the southwest, topped by the ruin of the [[Hellfire Club]] at 1,250 feet (380 m).
On the 14th of July 2007 A mad man from China pulled out a gun at the local shop's beside Orwell. The Garda stopped some Irish local because he fitted the description of the chinese mad man!Gards swarmed the area as soon as they got word but the chinese man persisted to chase the youngster's who provoked him. Sources released later that it was all a hokes, it was a cardboard shape gun. The whereabouts of the Chinese mad man is unknown.
== Areas of Templeogue ==
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The ''Water Course'' was a stream feeding the [[River Poddle]] which, according to local legend, "disappeared" overnight. In reality, it was culverted to allow expansion of the St Jude's Parish Church. St. Jude's Parish church has striking architecture.
The estates of Cypress Grove North, Cypress Grove South, Ashfield, Cypress Grove Road, Corrybeg, Hilcrest, Springfield, Knocklyon Road and Templeogue Village make up what is known as the Village. Most of these estates are located on the N81. The "Village" houses landmarks such as the Morgue Pub, Templeogue Bridge and Templeogue Mansions. The Spawell is a sports recreation centre with tennis courts, indoor badminton and football pitches and squash courts, as well as a Pitch and Putt Club. It also has a night club, restaurant, arcade, snooker room and bar.
The Cheeverstown Centre is a home for people with learning or physical disabilities and is across the road from another centre for people with (less severe) learning disabilities - St. Michael's House.
== Development ==
Templeogue was originally a small village in rural south of [[County Dublin]]. In 1801 when the ''Templeogue Road'' was constructed, originally as a toll road.
Urban expansion of Dublin between the late 1950s and early 1980s absorbed the village.
Templeogue is a predominantly middle class area.
== Amenities ==
The suburb has many open fields (such as Orwell Green and Glendown Green), sports clubs - Faugh's GAA Club, St. Judes GAA Club, St. Mary's Rugby Club and Templeogue United FC, as well as schools - St. MacDara's CC, Templeogue College, St. Pius X NS, Bishop Galvin NS and Bishop Shanahan NS primary schools.
Although surrounded by pubs in adjacent neighbourhoods, Templeogue has only one pub inside its boundaries, The Templeogue Inn, better known throughout Dublin as '''The Morgue'''. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the number 15 [[Blessington]] steam tram passed through Templeogue so close to the pub that many deaths occurred. Corpses were often sheltered in the pub until taken away and the pub acquired the permanent, morbid nickname.
''The Morgue'' was the most expensive pub in Ireland for a time during the 1980s when it changed hands for £660,000, a remarkable sum at the time.
== In literature ==
[[James Joyce]] mentions it once, in ''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'', Book III, Episode 3, page 553, line 12:
<blockquote>
<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr><td align="right">4 </td><td align="right">...and I did spread before my
Livvy, </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">5 </td><td>where Lord street lolls and ladies linger and
Cammomile Pass</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">6 </td><td>cuts Primrose Rise and Coney Bend bounds
Mulbreys Island but</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">7 </td><td>never a blid had bledded or bludded since long
agore when the</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">8 </td><td>whole blighty acre was bladey well pessovered,
my selvage mats</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">9 </td><td>of lecheworked lawn, my carpet gardens of
Guerdon City, with</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">10 </td><td>chopes pyramidous and mousselimes and
beaconphires and colos-</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">11 </td><td>sets and pensilled turisses for the
busspleaches of the summira-</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">12 </td><td>mies and esplanadas and statuesques and <span
style="color:blue">templeogues</span>, the Par-</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">13 </td><td>donell of Maynooth, Fra Teobaldo, Nielsen,
rare admirable, Jean</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">14 </td><td>de Porteleau, Conall Gretecloke, Guglielmus
Caulis and the eiligh</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">15 </td><td>ediculous Passivucant (glorietta's
inexcellsiored!)...</td></tr>
</table>
</blockquote>
==External links==
*[http://www.templeogueguides.org Templeogue Girl Guides]
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