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The Flanagan farm, Greenhills road - The site today

The site of the Flanagan farm, Greenhills road, Kilnamanagh, Co.Dublin.

The Flanagan farm, "plot 15", superimposed on the modern map.
The Flanagan house at the road is now demolished. No trace of it.
Constantine House to the NE side is gone also.
Plot 15 is entirely part of the green area S of the housing estate, part of Tymon Park.

On satellite view you can make out the shape of the old farm. And on ground level too.
The ground level in the farm next door is higher up and has different vegetation cover. That may be partly because of the choice to mow the lower section for sports pitches and not mow the raised section. But also the soil in the raised section may be different after having a different history.
From Google Maps.

View of the Flanagan farm (farm is on RHS of fence).
From up near the road looking downhill.
Photo 2012. See full size.
See view further to the right and further to the right and further to the right.
See street view down at the corner.

View inside the park, looking uphill towards the road.
The narrow neck is the opening of the farm, where the house was.
Photo 2012. See full size and other shot.

N entrance to the park.
Photo 2012. See full size.
See similar wall at SE entrance to the park. And wider shot.

This is a modern wall design. The design of alternating slates and large rocks is clearly new.
The slates are interesting though. Could these be part of the old wall, re-built into a new wall?
See close-up of slates here and here. Photos 2025.

Street view of the Flanagan farm, now part of Tymon Park.
View from SE, looking back up towards where the house would have been. Note the whole farm is down a slope.
Click to rotate. From Google Street View.
See view inside gate looking uphill to road.

The surviving house on the road

About the only old landmark that survives is one house up on the W side of the road.
(To get your bearings, note that the red cross is the same position on both maps.)
Liam Cosgrave recalled the Flanagan farm as further along the road to the S of this surviving house (which matches plot 15) though he thought the house was down the slope, not at the roadside.

From street view of the old house up on the road, looking South.