Churchtown (Irish: Baile an Teampaill) is a largely residential affluent suburb on the southside of Dublin, between Rathfarnham and Dundrum.

Braemor Road is marked by a gate lodge in the style of a triumphal arch from the 18th century, which originally led to Rathfarnham Castle.

The erection of this gateway is attributed to Henry Loftus, Earl of Ely from 1769 to 1783 who was also responsible for the classical work on the castle itself.

The floors and other timber work have long disappeared and the winding stone steps are not considered safe to ascend.

Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) features many of the old houses in Churchtown under the reference village of Rathfarnham.

which was situated on Nutgrove Avenue, halfway between the Good Shepherd church and Rathfarnam village and Whitehall, of T. Laffan, Esq., an out-office of which is built in the shape of a pottery furnace, with a winding flight of steps on the outside to the top, whence there is a commanding prospect of the surrounding country repeats our description of the Bottle Tower.

William Duncan's maps of the county of Dublin (1821) shows White Barn and Newtown Villas.

Recently occupied by the De La Salle Brothers, it seems to be identical to a house named Waxfield where the death is recorded in 1766 of John Lamprey.

This area was described in Weston St. John Joyce's The Neighbourhood of Dublin in 1912 as the "dilapidated locality known as the Ponds" but it has since been largely rebuilt.

It was a very early 18th century gabled residence named Grove Cottage and was probably the oldest occupied house in Dublin.

The insurgents of the south county assembled at the Ponds on 24 May 1798 under the leadership of David Keely, James Byrne, Edward Keogh and Ledwich.

The survivors retreated, joining up with a party from Clondalkin, and a further engagement took place at the turnpike on the Rathcoole road where the enemy was successfully repulsed.

The break-out by electoral area was as follows: Churchtown-Castle 1,244 Churchtown-Landscape 1,198 Churchtown-Nutgrove 3,100 Churchtown-Orwell 1,871 Churchtown-Woodlawn 1,323 [5] Churchtown has a number of shops and pubs, including a mid-size supermarket,[6] which has one of Dublin's few kosher sales facilities.

The centre included Ireland and Europe's first drive through restaurant when McDonald's opened a branch there.

The public housing flats in Churchtown, across from the Bottle Tower pub, are named St. Nathy's after the church.

[16] The school's past pupils include Damien Duff,[17] who retired from the Republic of Ireland national football team in 2012.

Jim's younger brother, Brian Stynes, also went to De La Salle College; he won a senior All Ireland football medal for Dublin in 1995.

The former local girls' secondary school was Notre Dame School,[18] one of whose alumni is Mary Lou McDonald, the current president of Sinn Féin and a Teachta Dála (TD).McDonald was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), from 2004 to 2009 representing the Dublin constituency (Leaving Certificate class of 1988).

Mount Carmel Community Hospital, which stands on a 4.9-acre site on Braemor Park, re-opened as a short-stay nursing home in September 2015.

HB Ice Cream was named after the Hughes Brothers dairy and was produced at Hazelbrook Farm, across the road from the Good Shepherd national school.