Rathfarnham
Rathfarnham is a southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland in County Dublin. It is south of Terenure, east of Templeogue, and is in the postal districts of Dublin 14 and 16.Photo: AndrewH, Public domain.
Photo: Suckindiesel, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Suckindiesel, CC BY 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rathfarnham Castle and Bushy Park.
Rathfarnham Castle
Photo: AndrewH, Public domain.
Rathfarnham Castle is a 16th-century fortified house in Rathfarnham, South Dublin, Ireland. Originally a semi-fortified and battlemented structure, it underwent extensive alterations in the 18th century.
Bushy Park
Park
Photo: JP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bushy Park is a large, 20.5-hectare, suburban public park in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland.
Herzog Park
Park
Herzog Park is a small public park in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland. Named for Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel, who grew up in Dublin, it occupies the site of a former stone quarry and was laid out as a neighbourhood park in the 1980s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Terenure and Templeogue.
Terenure
Suburb
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Terenure, called Roundtown from around 1800-1870, is a middle class suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It is located in the city's D6 and D6W postal districts. The population of all electoral divisions labelled as Terenure was 17,972 as of the 2022 census.
Templeogue
Suburb
Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Templeogue is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south.
Ballyroan
Suburb
Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ballyroan is a suburban area within Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland. It lies at the foot of the Dublin mountains, alongside Ballyboden, Butterfield, Knocklyon, Old Orchard, and Scholarstown.
Rathfarnham
- Type: Village with 17,300 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: South Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.29881° or 53° 17′ 56″ northLongitude
-6.28554° or 6° 17′ 8″ westPopulation
17,300Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)Open location code
9C5M7PX7+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 52256353OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2961911Wikidata ID
Q1317787
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Rathfarnham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راذفرانهام”
- Basque: “Rathfarnham”
- Bulgarian: “Ратхфарнхам”
- Catalan: “Rathfarnham”
- Cebuano: “Rathfarnham”
- Chinese: “拉斯法奈姆”
- Chinese: “拉斯法納姆”
- Danish: “Rathfarnham”
- Dutch: “Rathfarnham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راذفرانهام”
- French: “Rathfarnham”
- Galician: “Rathfarnham”
- German: “Rathfarnham”
- Hebrew: “רת’פרנהם”
- Irish: “Ráth Fearnáin”
- Italian: “Rathfarnham”
- Japanese: “ラスファーナム”
- Korean: “라스판햄”
- Lithuanian: “Ratfarnemas”
- Maltese: “Rathfarnham”
- Persian: “راتفارنهام”
- Polish: “Rathfarnham”
- Russian: “Ратфарнем”
- Swedish: “Rathfarnham”
- Urdu: “ریتھفارنہم”
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Notable Places Nearby
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