Jobstown
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Jobstown
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  Jobstown Location in Dublin  Jobstown Jobstown (Ireland) | |
| Coordinates: 53°16′46″N 6°24′15″W / 53.27944°N 6.40417°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Dublin |
| Local government area | South Dublin |
| Time zone | UTC±0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST) |
| Eircode routing key | D24 |
| Telephone area code | +353(0)1 |
Jobstown (/ˈdʒoʊbz.taʊn/; Irish: Ráth Miontáin), also historically called Rathminton,[1] is a townland and suburb of Tallaght in Dublin, Ireland, and so an outer suburb of Dublin. It is in the local government area of South Dublin.
Jobstown takes its name from Henry Jope, who held land here in the 1250s.[2]
Jobstown was historically a small rural farming community three kilometres from Tallaght village, close to the western foothills of the Dublin Mountains. The only landmark in the area was the public house called the Jobstown House. The censuses of 1901 and 1911 showed that the population was low, and consisted mostly of farmers.[3]
Tallaght Rehabilitation Project, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation service, have been based at nearby Kiltalown House since 2005, offering programmes to assist people in the Tallaght area who have become drug or alcohol free, or who are stable in treatment on prescribed methadone.[4]: 0:40
Today, it is a densely populated suburb. According to the 2011 census, carried out by the central statistics office, Jobstown had a population of 16,616.[5]
Location and access
Jobstown is a townland, surrounded by others townlands including Brookfield, Corbally, Sundale, Johnville, Killinarden, Kiltalown, Mount Seskin, and Whitestown.
It lies 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) from the centre of Dublin and can be reached from the city by Dublin Bus route 27.[6] It is a 15-minute walk from Jobstown to the Luas tram service from Tallaght Hospital or The Square Shopping Centre into Dublin.