Palmerstown (Irish: Baile Phámar; officially Palmerston, see spelling) is a civil parish and suburb in western Dublin on the banks of the River Liffey.

The area is bordered to the north by the River Liffey and the Strawberry Beds, to the west by Lucan, to the south-west by Clondalkin, to the south by Ballyfermot and to the east by the village of Chapelizod.

[2] Between 1185 and 1188 Ailred the Palmer and his wife took religious vows and founded a priory and monastic hospital of Crutched Friars outside the West Gate of Dublin, on the road to Kilmainham, which they endowed with all their property.

[10] Others argue that the name "Palmerston" legally applies only to the civil parish and townland, and that the locality known as "Palmerstown" has a separate identity.

[13] The electorate was 641, of whom 425 voted in favour and 17 against;[14] the change to "Palmerstown Village" was formally approved at the county council meeting in January 2015.

Stewarts Hospital, (formerly the residence of the Hely-Hutchinson family, the Roman Catholic Church of St. Philomena, the National School, the Palmerstown House Pub and Restaurant and a variety of general enterprises, including a bank and convenience stores are located here.

Stewartscare is a health care facility at the Stewarts buildings and grounds which overlook the meandering Liffey valley.

[19] The name 'California Hills' was given by the children of the area to a small wasteland in Ballyfermot to the northeast of Glenaulin Park, which had been a builders' dump during the construction of the main Palmerstown Estate in the mid to late 1960's.

The wasteland had a series of small hills which were in fact mounds of rubble which had been buried under clay and eventually over grown with wild grass.

Mill Lane leads to the original Palmerstown settlement and centre of industry, which once employed over 600 millhands, craftsmen, and labourers.

This seventeenth-century low-lying waterside industrial village was complete with flax, seed, oil, flour and cloth mills.

Adjacent to Woodfarm Acres is another shopping centre containing a local SuperValu market, a gym, the youth center,and other amenities.

The Silver Granite Pub is located nearby, as is Pobalscoil Isolde, a secondary-level community school which opened in the 1980s.

Route 26 operates from Liffey Valley to Dublin city via Kennelsfort Road Upper and Chapelizod.