Madam, - Can you imagine the consternation, not to mention the confusion, which would ensue if the one place name were to be used to describe the area covered by Goatstown, Mount Merrion, Glenageary, Blackrock, Leopardstown, Monkstown, Stillorgan, Sallynoggin, Galloping Green, Deansgrange, Foxrock, Cornelscourt and Killiney?
Yet such is the size of the area presently labelled "Clondalkin". While there may have been some reason for such a policy while this region was being developed during the past 25 years or so, surely the time has come for the variously named neighbourhoods to now use their own individual names. - Yours, etc.,
ANNE CAHILL, Laurel Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.