Ballyogan () is a residential area in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown,

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, located approximately 12 km south of

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city centre.

Location

Ballyogan is bounded to the west and north by Stepaside and

Sandyford Sandyford () is a suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. Sandyford Business District makes up much of the suburb and encompasses 4 business parks: Sandyford Business Park, Stillorgan Business Park, Central Park and S ...

; across the M50 motorway to the east is

Leopardstown Leopardstown () is a suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, within the traditional County Dublin, Ireland. Located at the foot of the Dublin Mountains, it is a residential suburb with institutional lands and a large racecourse. It is ...

and to the south,

Carrickmines Carrickmines () is an outer suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. The area, still semi-rural, was historically on the border of English control and featured a defensive construction, Carrickmines Castle, which became the subjec ...

. Ballyogan is centred on ''Ballyogan Road''. The residential and shopping areas are located between the road and the M50 motorway which runs more or less parallel to and east of Ballyogan road. The Ballyogan Road is nearly 3 km long; it starts in Sandyford at its northern end and ends at Carrickmines.

Population

The area has a population of about 2,000 people.

Amenities

West of the Ballyogan Road is a former

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landfill and a recycling centre.

Historical elements

Also running west of the road are remnants of the ''Pale ditch'', a defensive structure which marks a former border of

The Pale The Pale (Irish: ''An Pháil'') or the English Pale (' or ') was the part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages. It had been reduced by the late 15th century to an area along the east coast st ...

. Just west of here are the

Dublin Mountains The Wicklow Mountains (, archaic: ''Cualu'') form the largest continuous upland area in the Republic of Ireland. They occupy the whole centre of County Wicklow and stretch outside its borders into the counties of Dublin, Wexford and Carlow. ...

which were outside English control. Another reminder of the area's past as a frontier country is found at adjoining Carrickmines where the remains of Carrickmines Castle became a centre of controversy when the M50 was being built. LuasBallyogan

Transport

The

Luas Luas (pronounced ; Irish for "speed") is a tram/ light rail system in Dublin, Ireland. There are two main lines: the Green Line, which began operating on 30 June 2004, and the Red Line which opened on 26 September 2004. Since then, both li ...

Green Line extension, opened in October 2010, runs most of the length of the road on its Eastern side. It has three stops on Ballyogan Road; '' The Gallops''; '' Leopardstown Valley'' and '' Ballyogan Wood'', which is in Ballyogan, as the name suggests.

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