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Ballyboden is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham in South Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon.According to the 2006 Census, Ballyboden has a population of about five thousand.About 700 metres east of Ballyboden centre is the Pearse Museum.Republic of Ireland football player Damien Duff is from the locality as was League of Ireland Premier Division player and Brownlow Medallist Jim Stynes.Ballyboden is home to two Gaelic Athletic Association clubs, Ballyboden Wanderers, who play in Mount Venus Road, and Ballyboden St. Enda's, who have a new playing facility at Sancta Maria College.The Parish of BallybodenBallyboden is a townland in the civil parish of Rathfarnham in the Barony of Uppercross. The Roman Catholic parish of Ballyboden was set up in 1973. It is managed by Order of St. Augustine of Hippo. The Church of Ireland is located in the a pre-Reformation parish church at Whitechurch. In the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, Rathfarnham parish is the parent of several South Dublin parishes. To accommodate the increasing need for ministry to the huge residential development of the Rathfarnham area over the last century, Terenure was developed in 1894, Churchtown (1965), Ballyroan (1968), Tallaght (1972) and Ballyboden (1973).