Suburban Dublin has several modern retail centres, including Dundrum Town Centre, Blanchardstown Centre, The Square in Tallaght, Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Clondalkin, Omni Shopping Centre in Santry, Nutgrove Shopping Centre in Rathfarnham, and Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords.

In 1582, he acquired land and built a castle at Rathfarnham, which he inhabited from 1585 ( and which has been recently restored to public view ).

* Rathfarnham has a number of soccer teams including Nutgrove Celtic, Rathfarnham Punters, Rathfarnham Rovers, Leicester Celtic, Broadford Rovers, and Whitechurch United.

* Rathfarnham has a number of boxing clubs including Whitechurch Boxing Club

According to the 2006 Census, Rathfarnham has a population of 17, 333 – a drop of 2. 1 % since 2002.

Rathfarnham has become the focal point of the summer music festival scene in Ireland.

would be routed through Rathfarnham. The study was cleared to be successful, however since then, there has been no further news on this.

Rathfarnham is served by a range of buses.

Rathfarnham is home to several notable historic buildings, including Rathfarnham Castle and Loreto Abbey, four parks: Marlay Park, Dodder Park, St. Enda's and Bushy Park, and several pubs including The Eden, Buglers, Revels and the landmark Yellow House.

Due to the fact that there aren't many suitable sites in the area for apartment building, two analysts including the Rathfarnham Community Website, predict that Census 2010 will publish further decreases.

* city suburbs including at least Rathfarnham, Palmerstown, Templeogue, Knocklyon and Greenhills

The Church of Ireland parish of Whitechurch includes most of Rathfarnham including Tibradden, Larch Hill and Kilmashogue.

Archer's survey of 1801 mentions two paper mills here, Freemans and Teelings, and both Dalton in 1836 and Lewis in 1837 state that one paper mill was still working and from 1836 to 1839 the name Henry Hayes, Rathfarnham Mill appears in the directories.

The Ballyroan Parish is located in Rathfarnham, a middle class area in Dublin's Southside and the birth place of two other touring professional golfers – Paul McGinley and Peter Lawrie.

Crossing the Dodder by a ford, and proceeding along its southern bank towards Rathfarnham, a splendid gateway at left, accounted among the best productions of that species of architecture in Ireland, invites the tourist to explore the once beautiful grounds of Rathfarnham Castle, but they are now all eloquently waste, the undulating hills covered with rank herbage, the rivulet stagnant and sedgy, the walks scarce traceable, the ice-houses open to the prying sun, the fish-pond clogged with weeds, while the mouldering architecture of the castle, and the crumbling, unsightly offices in its immediate vicinity ,… The castle, so long the residence of the Loftus family, and still the property of the Marquis of Ely, subject, however, to a small chief rent to Mr. Conolly, is an extensive fabric ,..... The great hall is entered from a terrace, by a portico of eight Doric columns, which support a dome, painted in fresco with the signs of the Zodiac and other devices.

The area of Rathfarnham includes Whitechurch, Nutgrove, Ballyboden and Ballyroan.

Nutgrove () is an area in Rathfarnham, County Dublin.

It is a suburban area at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Churchtown and Rathfarnham around the Nutgrove Shopping Centre.

He was born on the 2nd September, 1830, and having been educated at Nutgrove School, Rathfarnham, and at Trinity College, Dublin, took his degree in 1852.

The area's other shopping centre is the small Rathfarnham Shopping Centre.

The opening scene in Intermission ( film ) was recorded at Rathfarnham Shopping Centre.

The Old Orchard is on Butterfield Avenue near Rathfarnham Shopping Centre.

According to many writers the road to Rathfarnham follows the same route as the Slighe chualann, the ancient highway, which in the time of Saint Patrick was used by travellers between Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford.

* Rathfarnham is home to the 13th Dublin, the 14th Dublin, the 31st Dublin ( which was founded in 1917 ) and the 68th Dublin Scout troops and the Rathfarnham Girl Guides

The earliest reference to these areas can be found in Grant CCA-DCc-ChAnt / C / 1206, a document in Canterbury Cathedral Archives, by which King Henry II granted the lands Terenure and Kimmage ( Cheming ) in Rathfarnham to Walter the goldsmith (' aurifauber ') in 1175.

In 1986, the Jesuits sold Rathfarnham Castle but before leaving, they removed the stained glass windows, made in the famous Harry Clarke studios, from the chapel and donated them to Tullamore Catholic Church which had been destroyed by fire in 1983.

Dublin 14, which includes Churchtown, shown in greenChurchtown () is a largely residential suburb on the southside of Dublin, Ireland, between Dundrum and Rathfarnham.

Braemor Road is still marked by a triumphal arch from the 18th century, which originally led to Rathfarnham Castle.

There is an unmarked link route from Dublin Port ( where the E8 connects to Liverpool by ferry ) which follows the River Dodder to Rathfarnham and on to the Wicklow Way trailhead at Marlay Park via Saint Enda's Park.

It was also frequented by the soldiers of the Rathfarnham Guard whose careless talk was carefully noted by the United Irishmen hiding on the premises.

Both fine buildings of Loreto Abbey and Rathfarnham Castle also provide amenity value.

* The area is also home to the Rathfarnham Concert Band ()

Later that year, he was also created Marquess of Catherlough, Earl of Rathfarnham, in the County of Dublin, and Baron Trim, in the County of Meath, in the Peerage of Ireland.

Wanderers also reached the Leinster Junior Final that season, but were defeated by Rathfarnham in the final.

It started broadcasting in 1996 from the old PYE centre, and also broadcast from Rathfarnham.

Brehon's Chair ( also known as Taylors Grange ) is a sacred megalithic site in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland in the grounds of a private gated condominium.

In 1629 the king granted Loftus the unusual favour of a general license to visit England when he pleased, leaving the great seal in the hands of the commissioners last appointed, of whom his cousin, Sir Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, was one.

The earliest reference to a paper mill here is 1719 when William Lake of Rathfarnham presented a petition for financial aid but we hear of one at Milltown as far back as 1694.

Joyce in his Neighbourhood of Dublin states that this house was at one time the dower house of Rathfarnham Castle but in this he is almost certainly mistaken, as Frizell's map of 1779 shows that it was outside the estate.

The interior is made of stone and light wood and is one of the newer pubs in Rathfarnham.

There were three tram depots in Terenure at one time, the main tram depot for the number 15 DUTC trams in Terenure Road East, another DUTC depot for number 16 trams in Rathfarnham Road, and the terminus of the Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway on Templeogue Road.

Stynes was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest son of Brian and Teresa and one of six siblings and grew up in Rathfarnham raised in Roman Catholicism and attended Ballyroan Boys School.