inside Kilbarrack Road to Baldoyle Road), while today's Kilbarrack, and the Greendale shopping and civic complex, are close to where Little Kilbarrack stood. The Tesco-led shopping centre is near the site of the former "big house" of the area, Kilbarrack House. In the 1970s, Swans Nest Court, a complex of tower blocks of flats was built by Dublin Corporation. It was demolished and redeveloped into social and affordable housing in the early 2000s after it fell into disrepair. Amenities Kilbarrack has a local office of Dublin City Council, two shopping precincts (Greendale, with a large Centra, and Kilbarrack, dominated by Tesco, which has renovated it twice over the last decade) and a range of shops and pubs. There is a major Health Services Executive centre, and, at the boundary with Raheny and Donaghmede, and a municipal fire station and practice yard. Kilbarrack has five primary schools, three in one grouping: Scoil Eoin, the Educate Together North Bay School and Gaelscoil Mide, previously of Donaghmede, and two in another group: St. Benedict's and St. Mary's, located beside St. Benedict's parish church. Kilbarrack is also well known for its sporting clubs and teams, which include Bay City Boxing Club, Naomh Barrog GAA Club (https://web.archive.org/web/20120313202639/http://www.naomhbarrog.ie/), Kilbarrack United FC (http://www.kilbarrackunited.com), who play intermediate football in the Leinster Senior League (LSL) after previously being in Premier A of the AUL, and Kilmount Boys FC who were Amateur Football League champions 2006-07. The modern Parish Church (Roman Catholic) serves Kilbarrack and part of Raheny (Parish of Kilbarrack-Foxfield); some locals attend St. Benedict's Church in Grange Park Parish, which also serves some in Raheny. People Author, Booker Prize winner and former teacher at Greendale Community School in Kilbarrack, Roddy Doyle, is seen by many as having captured the atmosphere and spirit of Kilbarrack, thinly disguised as Barrytown, in a series of popular fiction works. Several-times Irish minister Michael Woods lives on Kilbarrack Road near where the district meets Bayside. Andrew Maxwell, stand-up comedian. Malachy Quinn Former Fingal County Councillor In popular culture The 1996 film The Van, part of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy, was filmed in Kilbarrack. See also List of towns and villages in Ireland References External links Radio Documentary about the St. Benedict's Multimedia Group in Kilbarrack Radio Documentary from Near90fm Towns and villages in Dublin (city)