- Ballyboden
Infobox Irish Place
name = Ballyboden
gaeilge = Baile Buadáin
crest
motto =
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pin coords = left: 45px; top: 103px
north coord = 53.282| west coord = 6.29 | irish grid = O144289
area = | elevation = 54 m
province =Leinster
county =County Dublin
town pop = 5,193| rural pop =
census yr = 2006
web = |Ballyboden ("Baile Buadáin" in Irish, meaning "Homestead of the Boden family") is a locality within the suburb of
Rathfarnham inSouth Dublin . [reference?]It is a suburban area at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and
Knocklyon .According to the 2006 Census [ [http://www.cso.ie/census/2006_preliminaryreport.htm Census 2006 Populations of Electoral Divisions, 2002 - 2006] ] , Ballyboden has a population of 5,193. Since 2002, the population has fallen slightly by 1.7%.
Damien Duff is one most famous person to come out of Ballyboden.Ballyboden is best known for its
Gaelic Athletic Association club,Ballyboden St. Enda's , although the club is today based in nearbyKnocklyon .The Parish of Ballyboden (RC)
The parish of Ballyboden was set up in 1973 and entrusted to the care of members of the Order of
Augustine of Hippo .The parish of
Rathfarnham , which goes back to pre-Reformation times, is the parent of several other parishes in this part of southDublin . Even afterTerenure 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).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 prescribed for them. When the new church in Ballyroan was opened in 1966 with only one priest attached to it, theAugustinians began to take a more active part; in fact they had a contract to say four Masses there every Sunday.When Ballyroan became an independent parish in 1968 with three priests assigned to it, the
Augustinians continued to help, though to a lesser extent.The
Augustinians had been in the district since 1872 when they acquiredOrlagh as theirNovitiate .The outbreak ofWorld War II in September 1939 made it impossible to send students to Rome from theNovitiate . The decision was made to transfer the university from Earlsfort Terrace to a new campus inBelfield in south Co. Dublin. It became clear that the students could not remain in Raheny. A search for an alternative site began, and several properties were inspected. The choice fell on St. Catherines, Ballyboden, which had been the residence of Mr. Justice O’Byrne and work on the new student residence, dedicated toOur Lady of Good Counsel , began in 1955.The parish church was opened by
Archbishop Ryan on 4th October 1981.References
* [http://www.ballybodenparish.ie/history.htm Ballyboden Parish]
External links
* [http://www.ballybodenwanderers.com/index.php Ballyboden Wanderers]
* [http://www.ballybodenstendas.ie/home/default.asp Ballyboden St. Enda's]
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