Ballybrack

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Ballybrack
An Baile Breac
Suburb
Ballybrack Village
Ballybrack Village
Ballybrack is located in Dublin
Ballybrack
Ballybrack
Location in Dublin
Coordinates: 53°15′11″N 6°07′28″W / 53.2531°N 6.124466°W / 53.2531; -6.124466Coordinates: 53°15′11″N 6°07′28″W / 53.2531°N 6.124466°W / 53.2531; -6.124466
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyDún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Time zoneUTC±0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (IST)
Eircode routing key
A96
Telephone area code+353(0)1

Ballybrack (Irish: An Baile Breac, meaning 'the speckled townland') is a residential suburb of Dublin on its Southside, located in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is south of Killiney, northeast of Loughlinstown, east of Cabinteely and north of Shankill. The population of the defined townland is 3,901 according to census 2016 [1] with the actual population closer to 6,000 (incorporating Ashlawn Park, Holly / Cedar Court area and Cromlech Fields).

Amenities[]

Ballybrack has a post office, a newsagent, a petrol station, two public houses, three barber shops, a café, a pizza restaurant, a dry cleaners, two pharmacies, and a shopping centre. There are also two Roman Catholic churches in the area.

Transport[]

The area is well served by a number of different transport links,[2] with Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland running a number of services from the city centre and Dun Laoghaire town centre which serve the locality. Killiney DART station (originally Killiney and Ballybrack station until 1921) is a 12-minute walk from the village and the Luas Green line stops at Cherrywood and Brides Glen are a 20-minute walk, and both of which serve the city and a number of southside suburbs.

The N11 primary route and the M50 orbital motorway both have exits close to Ballybrack.

Education[]

Local schools include St. John's, Scoil Cholmcille and Our Lady of Good Counsel, while the local Gaelscoil is Gaelscoil Phádraig, which continues to grow year-on-year from a modest start in 1995.

Sport[]

Local sports clubs include Ballybrack FC soccer club, Ballybrack/Borough Boxing Club, Foxrock–Cabinteely GAA and Cabinteely GAA.

In 2005 Foxrock Girls and the ladies section of Cabinteely GAA club merged to form a new club offering a more complete programme of football for all age groups in their catchment area. They are based at Kilbogget Park between Cabinteely and Ballybrack. The club has so far won at underage level the All-Ireland Division 1 Féile for U14's in 2005, All-Ireland U14 7s in the same year and numerous Dublin Leagues and Championships. The adult team have won the 2007 VHI All-Ireland Junior Championship, 2007 All-Ireland Junior 7s Shield and in 2008 were Dublin Intermediate League and Championship winners.[3]

Ballybrack Football Club was formerly known as KBL FC – Killiney, Ballybrack & Loughlinstown. KBL was founded in 1972 however Ballybrack FC was officially formed in 1975. At present Ballybrack has 13 teams competing in both the Dublin and District Schoolboys League and the South Dublin Football League. The soccer club provides football for boys and girls at all levels of ability. Catering for all children aged between seven and eighteen years in the areas of Ballybrack, Cabinteely and Shankill. Football matches are played in Coolevin on Saturdays and Sundays. The football club is open five nights a week and at the weekends providing recreation and leisure activities. The soccer club's membership exceeds 300 children. Approximately one third comprise the Ballybrack Tigers, catering to children five to seven years old. Every year the club plays host to a mini World Cup tournament for all children of the local community. Ballybrack fc also has an under 21s and a senior team competing in both the Leinster Football League and the Leinster Senior League. The Seniors won the Tom Cullen Cup and came R\UP in their league in 2013, with the u\21s coming R\UP in the LFL Development cup in 2013, both teams in their first seasons. The club also has a full size state of the art FIFA approved all-weather pitch.

Notable people[]

  • Seán Lemass; Taoiseach from 1959 until 1966 was born and lived in Ballybrack.[citation needed]
  • Adrian Kennedy, radio presenter[citation needed]
  • Paul Howard, author and creator of the Ross O'Carroll Kelly series, grew up in Ballybrack[4]
  • [citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ "Census 2016 boundary files". Central Statistics Office.
  2. ^ "Priced out of Killiney? Nearby Ballybrack is a good value alternative".
  3. ^ "FoxCabGaa - Foxrock Cabinteely GAA Club". FoxCabGaa - Foxrock Cabinteely GAA Club. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  4. ^ Kimmage, Paul (25 December 2015). "12 days of Kimmage: Paul talks to Ross O'Carroll-Kelly creator Paul Howard". Irish Independent. Dublin. ISSN 0021-1222. Retrieved 18 September 2018.

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