Ballyboden (Irish: Baile Buadáin, meaning 'Boden Town') is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham, County Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon.

It is in the local government area of South Dublin, and is a townland in the civil parish of Rathfarnham in the barony of Uppercross.

To accommodate the increasing need for ministry to the residential development of the Rathfarnham area over the last century, Terenure was developed in 1894, Churchtown (1965), Ballyroan (1968), Tallaght (1972), Ballyboden (1973) and Knocklyon (1974).

[citation needed] The Pearse Museum is 700 metres east of Ballyboden centre.

Republic of Ireland football player Damien Duff is from the locality as was League of Ireland Premier Division player and Brownlow Medallist Jim Stynes.