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**Ballyboden**
	Ballyboden; Baile Buadáin
	Location
Coordinates:; 53°16′55″N 6°17′24″W / 53.282°N 6.29°W
Irish grid reference; O144289
	Statistics
Province:	Leinster
County:	County Dublin
Elevation:	54 m
Population (2006)	5,193

Ballyboden (Baile Buadáin in Irish, meaning "Homestead of the Boden clan ") is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham in South Dublin. [reference?]

It is a suburban area at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon.

According to the 2006 Census^[1], Ballyboden has a population of about five thousand.

Republic of Ireland international footballer Damien Duff is from the locality.

Ballyboden is home to the Gaelic Athletic Association club, Ballyboden Wanderers, who play in Mount Venus Road.

Taylor's Lane, Ballyboden

[edit] The Parish of Ballyboden

The Catholic parish of Ballyboden was set up in 1973 and is managed by Order of St. Augustine of Hippo.

The parish of Rathfarnham, a pre-Reformation parish, is the parent of several parishes in south Dublin. Terenure developed in 1894, 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. When the new church in Ballyroan was opened in 1966 with only one regular priest, the Augustinians took an active part, celebrating four Masses on Sundays.

The Augustinians acquired Orlagh as a Novitiate in 1872. When U.C.D. moved from Earlsfort Terrace to the new campus at Belfield in South Co. Dublin, alternate accommodation was needed for the students. The order acquired St. Catherines, Ballyboden, previously the residence of Mr. Justice O’Byrne. Construction on the new student residence, dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel, began in 1955.

Ballyboden parish church was blessed by Archbishop Dermot Ryan on October 4th 1981.