Ballyroan (Irish: Baile Uí Ruáin, meaning 'O'Rowan's town')[2] is a suburban area within Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland. It lies at the foot of the Dublin mountains, alongside Ballyboden, Butterfield, Knocklyon, Old Orchard, and Scholarstown. The townland of Ballyroan crosses civil parish and barony 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.[3] The modern suburb of Ballyroan has extended somewhat beyond the traditional townland boundaries.[4]
Ballyroan
Baile Uí Ruáin | |
|---|---|
Suburb | |
 Ballyroan | |
  Ballyroan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°17′21″N 6°18′07″W / 53.289107°N 6.301843°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Dublin |
| Government | |
| • Dáil Éireann | Dublin South-West |
| • EU Parliament | Dublin |
| Elevation | 61 m (200 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
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,[5] and the Ballyroan public library which opened in 1986.[6] 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.[7][8]
Education
editThere are two secondary schools, Sancta Maria College and Coláiste Éanna, and a local Scout Group.[9]
Transport
editBallyroan is served by the 15B bus route.[10]
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
edit- ^ "Elevation data from daftlogic.com". Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
- ^ Ballyroan Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved: 2011-02-21.
- ^ Mapviewer Archived 2012-08-29 at the Wayback Machine (Select Historic 6" option to view townlands). Ordnance Survey Ireland. Retrieved: 2011-02-21.
- ^ 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 Archived 2009-11-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved: 2010-10-12.
- ^ Ballyroan public library Archived 2010-05-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved: 2010-10-12.
- ^ Find a Library > Ballyroan Archived 2010-05-13 at the Wayback Machine South Dublin Libraries. Retrieved: 2013-07-04.
- ^ Redeveloped library to be handed over to council Archived 2016-01-12 at the Wayback Machine Irish Times, 2012-11-05.
- ^ Ballyroan Scout Group. Retrieved: 2010-10-12. Archived June 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Dublin Bus 15B service to Ballyroan Archived 2010-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved: 2010-10-12.