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Ballyboden

Suburb of Dublin, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Ballyboden
other_name
settlement_type	Suburb
image_skyline	Ballyboden1.JPG
image_caption	Taylor's Lane, Ballyboden
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	left
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Dublin
subdivision_type4	Local government area
subdivision_name4	South Dublin
leader_title1	Dáil constituency
leader_name1	Dublin South-West
leader_title2	EP constituency
leader_name2	Dublin
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2006
population_urban	5193
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
elevation_m	54
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info
postal_code_type	Eircode (Routing Key)
postal_code	D16

Ballyboden () is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham, County Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon. It is in the local government area of South Dublin, and is a townland in the civil parish of Rathfarnham in the barony of Uppercross.

Population

According to the 2006 census, the electoral division of Ballyboden had a population of about five thousand. This figure was 5,246 in the 2022 census.

Religion

The Roman Catholic parish of Ballyboden was established in 1973. It is managed by the Order of Saint Augustine. Within the Archdiocese of Dublin, Rathfarnham parish is the parent of several local parishes. To accommodate the increasing need for ministry to the residential development of the Rathfarnham area over the last century, Terenure was developed in 1894, Churchtown (1965), Ballyroan (1968), Tallaght (1972), Ballyboden (1973) and Knocklyon (1974).

There had been an Augustinian house of studies in Ballyboden since 1955. It was the home of students of the Order following the two-year course in Philosophy. When the new church in Ballyroan was opened in 1966 the Augustinians took an active part. The Augustinians had acquired Orlagh as a Novitiate in 1872. When University College Dublin moved from Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin 2 to the campus at Belfield in south County Dublin in the 1960s and 1970s, the order acquired St. Catherines, Ballyboden, previously the residence of Mr. Justice O'Byrne.

The Church of Ireland is located in the pre-Reformation parish church at Whitechurch.

Culture

The Pearse Museum is 700 metres east of Ballyboden centre.

Sport

Ballyboden is home to two Gaelic Athletic Association clubs, Ballyboden Wanderers, who play in Mount Venus Road, and Ballyboden St. Enda's, who have a new playing facility at Sancta Maria College. Republic of Ireland football player Damien Duff is from the locality as was League of Ireland Premier Division player and Brownlow Medallist Jim Stynes.

Transport

Ballyboden is served by Dublin Bus routes 15b, 74 and 161

References

[http://www.cso.ie/census/2006_preliminaryreport.htm Census 2006 Populations of Electoral Divisions, 2002 - 2006] {{webarchive. link. (March 18, 2007)
"Ballyboden (Electoral Division, Dublin, Ireland) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716110849/http://www.ballybodenparish.ie/history.htm Ballyboden Parish]

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