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Parish Partnership Parish Churches and chapels of ease Constituted Other details 1 Ballyboden: Our Lady of Good Counsel, Ballyboden 1973 Constituted from Ballyroan, Bohernabreena-Firhouse and Rathfarnham Ballyboden: Ballyroan: Holy Spirit, Ballyroan 1968 Constituted from Rathfarnham Ballyroan: Churchtown: Good Shepherd, Churchtown 1965
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.
The Catholic Church of the Annunciation was erected in 1878 to replace the old chapel on Willbrook Road. Outside the church door is a primitive type of font on a pedestal bearing the inscription FONT USED IN MASS HOUSE OF PENAL TIMES IN PARISH OF RATHFARNHAM FROM 1732.
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
Within the Archdiocese of Dublin, Rathfarnham parish is the parent of several local parishes. To accommodate the increasing need for ministry to the residential development of the Rathfarnham area over the last century, Terenure was developed in 1894, Churchtown (1965), Ballyroan (1968), Tallaght (1972), Ballyboden (1973) and Knocklyon (1974).
The Province of Dublin is one of four ecclesiastical provinces that together form the Catholic Church in Ireland; the other provinces are Armagh, Tuam and Cashel.The geographical remit of the province includes the city of Dublin, all of the historical County Dublin (counties Fingal, South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown), most of County Wicklow, and fragments of counties Kildare, Carlow ...
Civil Parish Balrothery East: Baldongan Balrothery Balscadden Holmpatrick ... Rathfarnham-Ballyroan, Rathfarnham-Butterfield, Rathfarnham-Hermitage, Rathfarnham-St ...
Whitechurch is usually considered to lie within the greater Rathfarnham area. Whitechurch is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. [1] The name of the area is derived its name from a small white church in Kilmashogue, built near an ancient cairn (which is a protected monument). Little remains of the church.