Baile Baodáin

Ballyboden is a townland in Whitechurch civil parish, barony of Rathdown, County Dublin, situated at the foot of the Dublin Mountains within the modern suburb of Rathfarnham. The area was originally part of the Pre-Reformation Parish of Rathfarnham and bore ecclesiastical significance through connection to St. Mary's Abbey (an Augustinian foundation in Dublin), which had oversight of the 12th-c...