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About Ballyboden

Ballyboden, Baile Baodáin in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 8 km south of Dublin. It stands on the M50, R113 and R114. The map gives it 11,073 buildings and 342 named streets, with 141 places named on them in 68 kinds, and 917 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 11th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
5,193, as the map records it
Where
8 km south of Dublin
Position
53.2839° N, 6.2956° W, 54 m above sea level
Roads
M50, R113, R114, R115, R116, R137, R817 and R822
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
11,073 buildings, 342 streets, 141 named places in 68 kinds
County Dublin, Whitechurch Branch Library.
County Dublin, Whitechurch Branch Library.·HighKing, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo by Xiaomi Lydsto with Self Emptying Dock and LIDAR Radar Navigation (51261190917)
Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo by Xiaomi Lydsto with Self Emptying Dock and LIDAR Radar Navigation (51261190917)·Smart Home Perfected, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballyboden in order

51 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Ballyboden, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 800s2019Book of KellsMuseum of Literature Ireland
The eighth century
  • the 800sBook of KellsAttractions · 7.2 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The fifteenth century
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Dublin since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

1,458,154372,77318412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 917 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M50, R113, R114, R115, R116, R137, R817 and R822 running through Ballyboden. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 17 lines call at 145 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

11 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyboden?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 8 km south of Dublin and 8 km from Dublin, on the M50, R113 and R114.
How big is Ballyboden?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 11,073 buildings, 342 named streets and 141 named places, which by building count makes it the 11th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Ballyboden?
917 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Whitecliff, Obelisk and St Enda's Park.
How do you get to Ballyboden?
17 bus and train lines call at 145 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Dublin Coach and Go-Ahead Ireland. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
11,073
buildings on the model
342
named streets
141
named places
68
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q639941). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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