South DublinIrish Baile Átha Cliath Theascounty in the province of Leinster, eastern Ireland. The county of South Dublin was created in 1994 when the geographic county of Dublin county was split administratively into three separate councils. Area 86 square miles (224 units. It now constitutes the southwestern and western component of the Greater Dublin metropolitan area. Tallaght is the county seat.

South Dublin is bordered by the city of Dublin (east) and Counties Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (southeast), Wicklow (south and southwest), Kildare (west), and Fingal (north). The eastern and northern parts of the county consist largely of densely populated Dublin suburbs, but there is considerable farmland in the west, and there are large green spaces in the hilly southern portion. Area square miles ( square km). Pop. (2002) 238,835; .