Ballyroan () is a suburban area within

Rathfarnham Rathfarnham () is a Southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is south of Terenure, east of Templeogue, and is in the postal districts of Dublin 14 and 16. It is within the administrative areas of both Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council a ...

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, Ireland. It lies at the foot of the Dublin mountains, alongside

Ballyboden Ballyboden (''Baile Buadáin'' in Irish, meaning "Boden Town") is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham in South Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon. It is a townland in the civil p ...

, Butterfield,

Knocklyon Knocklyon () is a suburb of Dublin in county of South Dublin, within the old County Dublin, Ireland. Unlike many Dublin suburbs, Knocklyon was not developed around a village; rather it largely comprises modern housing built between the village ...

, Old Orchard, and Scholarstown. The

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

of Ballyroan crosses

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

and

barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...

boundaries with roughly 114 acres of the historical townland in the civil parish of Tallaght in the barony of Uppercross, and nearly 10 acres in the civil parish of Rathfarnham in the barony of Rathdown. The modern suburb of Ballyroan has extended somewhat beyond the traditional townland boundaries. The centre of Ballyroan contains the Ballyroan Community & Youth Centre, the Rosemount Shopping Centre, the parish church which opened in December 1967 and which possesses two murals inside by the artist,

Seán Keating Seán Keating (born John Keating, 28 September 1889 – 21 December 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent two week ...

, and the Ballyroan public library which opened in 1986.Ballyroan public library
. Retrieved: 2010-10-12. The library closed in September 2011 and was demolished. A new library twice the size of the original was built at the same site at a cost of €2.6 million and opened on 18 February 2013.

Education

There are two secondary schools, Sancta Maria College and

Coláiste Éanna Coláiste Éanna Christian Brothers School is a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys in Ballyroan, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1967 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers to serve the needs of the Ballyroan and adjacent parishes. ...

, and a local Scout Group.

Transport

Ballyroan is served by the 15B bus route.Dublin Bus 15B service to Ballyroan
. Retrieved: 2010-10-12.

Gallery

Image:Ballyroan Public Library interior 2.jpg, Public library on Orchardstown Villas File:Ballyroan Shopping Centre.jpg, Ballyroan Community & Youth Centre (left) and Rosemount Shopping Centre (right) Image:Chipper in Ballyroan, Dublin.jpg, Fish and chip shop on Marian Road Image:Orchardstown post office, Ballyroan, Dublin.jpg, Former post office on Marian Road

References

{{Dublin residential areas Rathfarnham Towns and villages in South Dublin (county)