Ballyboden

Ballyboden is an area in Rathfarnham, County Dublin.

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It is a suburban area at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon.

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Damien Duff is probably the most famous person to come out of Ballyboden.

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Ballyboden is best known for its GAA club, the Ballyboden St. Enda's (Although the club is situated in nearby Knocklyon).

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The parish of Ballyboden was set up in 1973 and entrusted to the care of members of the Order of Augustine of Hippo.

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The parish of Rathfarnham, which goes back to pre-Reformation times, is the parent of several other parishes in this part of south Dublin. Even after Terenure had been cut off from it in 1894, the parish still covered an enormous area until the middle 1960s. This is clear from a list of the parishes since carved out of its territories ? a list which also shows how rapidly the city was expanding at that period: Churchtown (1965), Ballyroan (1968), Tallaght (1972) and Ballyboden (1973).

Rathfarnham: Rathfarnham (Irish: Rath Fearnain, meaning Fearnain's Ringfort), is a residential suburb on Dublin's Southside. It is located to the south of Terenure, and to the east of Templeogue, in the postal districts of Dublin 14 and Dublin 16. It is within the administrative area of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown....

Dublin: :This article is about the city in Ireland. For other uses of the name, see Dublin (disambiguation)....

Whitechurch: Whitechurch is a council estate on the southside of Dublin, situated in Ballyboden in Rathfarnham at the foot of the Dublin mountains. It has a population of about three thousand....