| Redcross | |
| Native Name Lang: | ga |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ireland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Leinster |
| Subdivision Type3: | County |
| Subdivision Name3: | County Wicklow |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 278 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Utc Offset1: | +0 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | IST (WEST) |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | -1 |
| Coordinates: | 52.883°N -6.15°W |
| Blank Name: | Irish Grid Reference |
Redcross (formerly Baile Domhnaill Rua) is a village and also a civil parish in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies on the R754 regional road, about 3km (02miles) east of the N11 national primary route.
The civil parish of Redcross comprises the following twenty-nine townlands:Ballintim, Ballinvally Lower, Ballinvally Upper, Ballycapple, Ballydonnell, Ballygillaroe, Ballykean (Annesley), Ballykean (Penrose), Ballykean (Stringer), Ballynamona, Ballyrogan Lower, Ballyrogan Upper, Blindwood, Chapel, Coolanearl, Crone Lower, Crone Upper, Kilmacrea Lower, Kilmacrea Upper, Kilmacoo, Kilmurry North, Kilmurry South, Oghil Lower, Oghil Upper, Rahaval, Redcross, Springfarm, Templelyon Lower, and Templelyon Upper.[2]
Redcross is a small village set amongst a number of low hills. The R754 passes through the village and there is a post office, two shops and a public house, as well as two caravan parks. Amenities include a golf course, a sports hall, tennis courts, a bowling ground and a wine bar.[3] The church, a small building without a tower or spire, was built in 1829, when the parishes of Kilbride, Dunganstown and Castlemacadam were united.[4]
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein stayed at a farmhouse in Redcross in 1948 after inspecting it and deciding he could work well there. Here he was occasionally visited by his friend the Irish psychiatrist Maurice O'Connor Drury. Wittgenstein said that his work was benefited by living here as "I could never have got this work done while I was in Cambridge".[5] [6] Durganstown is the ancestral home of the American President John F. Kennedy.[7]
The village Redcross has been used for the setting of a number of films, one of these being Durango, based on a book by John B. Keane.[3]