Rooms to Rent in Crumlin, Dublin 12

Crumlin is a southside suburb in Dublin 12, between Kimmage, Drimnagh, Walkinstown, Perrystown and Terenure, and close to the city centre. Its Irish name, Croimghlinn, means crooked glen, after the glacial valley now known as the Lansdowne Valley, through which the River Camac flows. Crumlin village grew up as an Anglo-Norman settlement after 1170, and in the 19th century its yellow clay fed the brickfields that helped build Dublin, remembered today in the name of Brickfields Park.

Much of modern Crumlin was built from the 1920s and 1930s, when Dublin Corporation laid out thousands of new homes to rehouse families from overcrowded inner city tenements. Our Lady's Children's Hospital, which opened in Crumlin in 1956, made the area's name known across Ireland. Local sport runs deep, from Crumlin GAA and Crumlin United to the Iveagh Grounds, home of St James Gaels GAA and Guinness Rugby Club.

There is no Luas or rail station in Crumlin itself, but several bus routes run to the city centre and to other suburbs, and the Luas Red line runs through neighbouring Drimnagh. Rooms range from spare rooms in family homes to house shares, and Crumlin suits people who want a settled residential neighbourhood close to town. Dwelles lists rooms in Crumlin so you can see what is available.