Country house · 1800–1850Boden Park HouseScholarstown Road, Ballyboden
Photo: Mic from Reading - Berkshire, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.07buildings on the National Inventory
History of Ballyboden · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Ballyboden has 7 buildings on the National Inventory
0.5% of its homes date from before 1919; the typical town has 3.4%. Its oldest building dates from 1800. For every 10,000 residents, Ballyboden has 13 buildings on the record; the typical town has 48.
On the National Inventory
7
13 per 10,000 residents
typical town: 48
typical town: 48
Of national importance
0
NIAH National or International, and national monuments
Archaeological sites
0
Sites and Monuments Record
Oldest building
1800
the first date on its record
Homes built before 1919
0.5%
typical town: 3.4%
The map
Where Ballyboden’s history is
Every building and site on the record inside the town, by its rating.
Regional and other sites
Hover a dot for its name; tap one to open its page.
The 7, by rating
7 Regional and other sites
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage is the State’s survey of buildings from 1700 to today, county by county; each record gives a rating, dates, a type and an appraisal. Being on it is not legal protection: that is each council’s Record of Protected Structures.
Points from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and the Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0).
Regional and other sites
7 historic places in Ballyboden
Buildings rated Regional, of significance in their region, and archaeological monuments with an encyclopedia article.
House · 1810–1835Willow HouseScholarstown Road
Country house · 1840–1870Ballyroan HouseBallyroan Heights
Gate lodge · 1840–1870Ballyroan LodgeBallyboden Road, Ballyroan
Country house · 1840–1870Ros MórScholarstown Road
Convent / nunnery · 1850–1870Saint Mary's ConventBallyroan Crescent, Ballyroan
Milestone / milepost · 1830–1870Milestone, Ballyboden Road, Ballyboden
What’s recorded
More homes than anything else in and around Ballyboden: 71%
Its buildings rate regional: Ballyboden has none of national importance. Two of the highest-rated records are Boden Park House and Willow House. The record in Ballyboden comes up to 1850 at its newest.
Homes5
Street furniture1
Churches and chapels1
Types as the National Inventory records them, grouped, for the records inside the town and those just outside it that belong to it; a building keeps the type it was built as.
Homes by age
Most of Ballyboden’s homes went up from 1946 to 1980: 54%
Ballyboden added comparatively little between the wars: 0.6% of its homes, the typical town 3.9%. Homes dated in the 2000s are scarcer in Ballyboden than in most towns: 8.9%, against 25%. New building in Ballyboden runs at the usual pace: 4.9% of homes date from 2011 on, the typical town 5.8%.
0.5%
Before 1919
0.6%
1919–45
54%
1946–80
31%
1981–2000
8.9%
2001–10
4.9%
Since 2011
BallybodenTypical town
Census 2022, households by the year their home was built (CSO, Small Area Population Statistics, CC BY 4.0); the typical town is the middle Irish town of 2,500 or more.
Neighbours
Ballyboden and its neighbours
| Town | People | National Inventory | National | Archaeological sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballyboden | 5,246 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Knocklyon | 13,854 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| Edmondstown | 5,451 | 41 | 0 | 6 |
| Rathfarnham | 17,508 | 86 | 1 | 11 |
| Firhouse | 12,254 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Templeogue | 18,076 | 16 | 0 | 11 |
| Churchtown | 10,044 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
In brief
Ballyboden in brief
The official list counts 7 places on the record in Ballyboden. Its homes are mostly newer: 0.5% were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town. The oldest is Boden Park House, from 1800. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: most dated ones come from the 19th century; it has 7 recorded buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 45); and per resident it sits near the middle of Irish towns of 2,500 or more.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The National Inventory. The State’s survey of post-1700 buildings, made county by county since 1990 (NIAH); a few records are older. It records; it does not protect.
- Ratings. International and National: of significance across Ireland or beyond. Regional: in its region. Local and record-only buildings get no page here.
- Archaeology. The Sites and Monuments Record (National Monuments Service) lists known archaeological sites; the national monuments to visit and the sites with an encyclopedia article get pages here.
- Protection. Both registers are surveys, not protection: a building is protected by its council’s Record of Protected Structures, and no national open list joins the 31 councils’ records.
- The grade. Ireland’s History grade is not built yet: the page describes, and gives no grade.
Questions about Ballyboden’s history
How many historic buildings are recorded in Ballyboden?
7 buildings on the National Inventory, from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
What is the oldest building in Ballyboden?
Boden Park House: the first date on its record is 1800.
How old are the homes in Ballyboden?
0.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3.4% in the typical town.
Are the buildings on this page protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
This page describes its history; it gives no grade.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie) · Sites and Monuments Record and the National Monuments Service’s monuments to visit · CSO Census 2022 (homes by the year built) · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).