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Tallaght ( / ˈtælə / TAL-ə; Irish: Tamhlacht, IPA: [ˈt̪ˠəul̪ˠəxt̪ˠ]) is the largest settlement, and county town, of South Dublin, Ireland, and the largest satellite town of Dublin. The central village area was the site of a monastic settlement from at least the 8th century, which became one of medieval Ireland's more important ...
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All the mills along the Dodder had closed down by the mid-19th century. At about the same time that the mills vanished, Irish died out as an everyday language in the district. It took until 1924 ...
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tallaght, abbey of Former Irish monastery, present-day site of a Dominican college, about five miles south of Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 774 by the reformer, St. Maelruain, as a protest against the contemporary worldly spirit found in many Irish monasteries.
The documented history of Tallaght dates back to early Christian Ireland but the many archaeological sites in the area suggest the presence of Bronze Age and perhaps even earlier settlers in the area. The place name Tallaght is derived from the words támhleacht, meaning a plague burial place.
Monastery of Tallagaht. The name Tallaght (Irish Tamlachta ), derived from tam , plague, and lecht , stone monument, records the burial place of some of the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, the Parthalonians, who were swept off by a plague about A.M. 2600.
Established in 1992, IT Tallaght offered degree and postgraduate courses as well as adult education courses. On 1 January 2019 it was dissolved and its operations merged into the new Technological University Dublin (TUD). [1] Its campus is now the Tallaght Campus of TUD.
