Ballyroan, Dublin

{{Short description|Suburban area in Dublin, Ireland}}

{{For|other places called Ballyroan|Ballyroan (disambiguation){{!}}Ballyroan}}

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|leader_title1 = Dáil Éireann

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Ballyroan ({{Irish place name|Baile Uí Ruáin|O'Rowan's town}})[http://www.logainm.ie/17426.aspx Ballyroan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721125538/http://www.logainm.ie/17426.aspx |date=2011-07-21 }} Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved: 2011-02-21. 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.[http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,713149,727484,6,7 Mapviewer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,713149,727484,6,7 |date=2012-08-29 }} (Select Historic 6" option to view townlands). Ordnance Survey Ireland. Retrieved: 2011-02-21. The modern suburb of Ballyroan has extended somewhat beyond the traditional townland boundaries.[https://www.jstor.org/pss/30101146 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.

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,[http://www.ballyroanparish.ie/ Ballyroan parish] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125001500/http://www.ballyroanparish.ie/ |date=2009-11-25 }}. Retrieved: 2010-10-12. and the Ballyroan public library which opened in 1986.[http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/find-library/ballyroan Ballyroan public library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513015529/http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/find-library/ballyroan |date=2010-05-13 }}. Retrieved: 2010-10-12. 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.[http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/find-library/ballyroan Find a Library > Ballyroan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513015529/http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/find-library/ballyroan |date=2010-05-13 }} South Dublin Libraries. Retrieved: 2013-07-04.[http://www.irishtimes.com/news/redeveloped-library-to-be-handed-over-to-council-1.547456 Redeveloped library to be handed over to council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112115809/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/redeveloped-library-to-be-handed-over-to-council-1.547456 |date=2016-01-12 }} Irish Times, 2012-11-05.