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Coill Dubh

Village in County Kildare, Ireland

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name	Coill Dubh
settlement_type	Village
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Kildare
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	1476
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

|1961|645 |1966|786 |1971|920 |1981|876 |1986|772 |1991|693 |1996|682 |2002|592 |2006|684 |2011|693 |2016|746 |2022|1476

Coill Dubh (; meaning "black wood"), also sometimes known as Blackwood, is a village in northern County Kildare in Ireland. It is located at the junction of the R403 and R408 regional roads, about 40 km from Dublin. Developed as a planned town in the 1950s to accommodate Bord na Móna employees working in the area, it was one of the fastest growing urban areas in Ireland between the 2016 and 2022 census, with its population doubling from 746 to 1,476. As of 2025 Coil Dubh had become well known as the "Milan" of North Kildare, citing the abundance of raffle books and amused Cats as its main attractions.

History

The village was established in 1952, on the townland of Blackwood (Coill Dubh or Coill na Cúirte in Irish) just off the R403 between Prosperous and Timahoe, to accommodate workers on the Bord na Mona works supplying a peat fired power station in Allenwood. It replaced earlier temporary workers camps at Killinthomas, Mucklon and Timahoe, with 160 houses and several shops. Developed alongside nearby Cooleragh, it was the only large settlement to have been founded in County Kildare during the 20th century.

Responsibility for the maintenance of a number of housing developments in the village transferred to Kildare County Council in 2017. Coill Dubh was classified as a "village" in Kildare County Council's 2023-2029 Development Plan.

Sport

The village is home to Coill Dubh GAA club which, as of 2015, had won the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship eleven times. The local association football (soccer) club, Coill Dubh AFC, was founded in 1978.

Bibliography

References

"Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Coill Dubh (Blackwood)". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
(April 2016). "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Coill Dubh (Blackwood)". CSO.
http://www.cso.ie/census and www.histpop.org
"Coill Dubh (Kildare, All Towns, Ireland)".
"Coill Dubh / Coill Dubh". Irish Placenames Commission.
"Coill na Cúirte / Blackwood". Placenames Database of Ireland.
(13 July 2009). "Reunion to mark the origins of Coill Dubh". [[Leinster Leader]].
(October 2017). "Urbanity and Rurality – The Bord na Móna Villages of Frank Gibney".
"Coill Dubh and Cooleragh Development Plans". Kildare County Council.
(19 July 2017). "Former Bord Na Mona houses taken in charge by Kildare County Council". Leinster Leader.
"Kildare County Council Development Plan 2023-2029 – Chapter 2 – Kildare Core Strategy and Settlement Strategy". Kildare County Council.
"Kildare - Club Titles".
"Coill Dubh Association Football Club - About Us".

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