Ballyroan, County Dublin
| Ballyroan Irish: Baile Uí Ruáin | |
| County Dublin | |
|---|---|
 Ballyroan | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | O133279 |
| Location: | 53°17’21"N, 6°18’7"W |
| Data | |
| Dialling code: | 01 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Dublin |
| Dáil constituency: |
Dublin South-West |
Ballyroan is a village which has become effectively a suburb in Rathfarnham in County Dublin. The name means 'O'Rowan's town'.
The village stands at the foot of the Dublin mountains, alongside Ballyboden, Butterfield, Knocklyon, Old Orchard, and Scholarstown. The townland of Ballyroan crosses the boundaries of two baronies, encompassing with roughly 114 acres in the barony of Uppercross, and nearly 10 acres in the barony of Rathdown. The modern suburb of Ballyroan has extended somewhat beyond the traditional townland boundaries.[1]
The centre of Ballyroan contains the Ballyroan Community & Youth Centre, the Rosemount Shopping Centre and the parish church which opened in December 1967 and which possesses two murals inside by the artist, Seán Keating.[2] Ballyroan public library opened in 1986, was closed in September 2011 and was demolished soon afterwards. 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 in 2013.[3][4]
Gallery
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Public library on Orchardstown Villas -
Ballyroan Community & Youth Centre (left) and Rosemount Shopping Centre (right) -
Fish and chip shop on Marian Road -
Former post office on Marian Road
References
- ↑ Ballyroan Townland: Delineation and Decline — Part 1 by Kieran Swords. Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Autumn 1996), pp. 118-129. Retrieved: 2011-02-21.
- ↑ Ballyroan parish. Retrieved: 2010-10-12.
- ↑ Find a Library > Ballyroan South Dublin Libraries. Retrieved: 2013-07-04.
- ↑ Redeveloped library to be handed over to council Irish Times, 2012-11-05.