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Redcross

Village in County Wicklow, Ireland

Summary

Village in County Wicklow, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Redcross
native_name
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	IMG Redcross742c.jpg
image_caption	Redcross on the R754 regional road
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 Wicklow
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	256
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

Redcross (, formerly Baile Domhnaill Rua) is a village and also a civil parish in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies on the R754 regional road, about 3 km east of the N11 national primary route.

Townlands

The civil parish of Redcross comprises the following 28 townlands: Ballintim, Ballinvally Lower, Ballinvally Upper, Ballydonnell, Ballygillaroe, Ballykean (Annesley), Ballykean (Penrose), Ballykean (Stringer), Ballynamona, Ballyrogan Lower, Ballyrogan Upper, Blindwood, Chapel, Coolanearl, Crone Lower, Crone Upper, Kilmacrea Lower, Kilmacrea Upper, Kilmacoo, Kilmurry North, Kilmurry South, Oghil Lower, Oghil Upper, Rahaval, Redcross, Springfarm, Templelyon Lower, and Templelyon Upper.

Village

Redcross is a small village set amongst a number of low hills. The R754 passes through the village and there is a post office, two shops and a public house, as well as two caravan parks. Amenities include a golf course, a sports hall, tennis courts, a bowling ground and a wine bar. The church, a small building without a tower or spire, was built in 1829, when the parishes of Kilbride, Dunganstown and Castlemacadam were united.

Notable visitors

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein stayed at a farmhouse in Redcross in 1948 after inspecting it and deciding he could work well there. Here he was occasionally visited by his friend the Irish psychiatrist Maurice O'Connor Drury. Wittgenstein said that his work was benefited by living here as "I could never have got this work done while I was in Cambridge". Durganstown is the ancestral home of the American President John F. Kennedy.

The village Redcross has been used for the setting of a number of films, one of these being Durango, based on a book by John B. Keane.

References

"Census Interactive Map – Towns: Redcross". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
"Redcross". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Redcross". Visit Wicklow.
"Redcross". Genuki.
[[Norman Malcolm. Malcolm, N.]] (1958), ''Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 79ff.
(2017). "The Selected Writings of Maurice O’Connor Drury". Bloomsbury Publishing.
Heymann, C. David. (2008). "American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy". Atria Books.

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