Collinstown, Santry

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{{Short description|Townland in Ireland, site of Dublin Airport}}

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Collinstown ({{Irish place name|Baile Choilín}}){{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/17301.aspx |title=Baile Choilín / Collinstown |publisher=Placenames Database of Ireland | website = logainm.ie |accessdate=15 May 2025 }} is a townland in Fingal, County Dublin, roughly 7 km north of Dublin in Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Santry, within the barony of Coolock.

Collinstown townland is approximately {{cvt|394|acres|sqkm|sigfig=2}} in area.{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/dublin/coolock/santry/drumcondra-rural-ed-1901/collinstown/ | website = townlands.ie | title = Collinstown Townland, Co. Dublin | accessdate = 15 May 2025 }} It is entirely within the perimeter of Dublin Airport, which grew out of Collinstown Aerodrome, originally a Royal Air Force station. In the Irish War of Independence, the aerodrome was converted to become Collinstown Camp, used for internment of Irish republicans.{{cite book|last=McGarry|first=Fearghal|title=The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqnjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT267|accessdate=7 February 2018|date=2015-11-06|publisher=Gill Books|isbn=9780717170739|page=267}}{{cite web|url=https://www.museum.ie/The-Collections/Documentation-Discoveries/May-2013/A-Secret-Photograph-from-Rath-Internment-Camp,-War|title=A Secret Photograph from Rath Internment Camp|last=Malone|first=Brenda|date=May 2013|work=Collections & Research / Documentation Discoveries|publisher=National Museum of Ireland|accessdate=7 February 2018}}{{cite news|url=http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/4709|title=Remembering the Past: Daring arms raid |last=O Snodaigh|first=Aengus|date=25 March 1999|work=An Phoblacht|accessdate=7 February 2018}} Construction of the airport followed, and it expanded over time, spreading into neighbouring administrative areas.