The Square, Tallaght
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| Location | Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°17′13″N 6°22′18″W / 53.28694°N 6.37167°WCoordinates: 53°17′13″N 6°22′18″W / 53.28694°N 6.37167°W |
| Address | The Square Towncentre Tallaght Dublin 24 |
| Opening date | 23 October 1990 |
| No. of stores and services | 163 |
| No. of floors | 3 (main levels) |
| Website | http://www.thesquare.ie/ |
The Square Tallaght is the name of a shopping centre located in Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland. The Square Tallaght was completed in 1990. It is located just off junction 11 of the M50 motorway on the Belgard Road (the R113) and the N81.
The centre comprises 53,000 m2 of retail space which is spread across 3 levels and currently has up to 163 stores. It has an annual footfall of 21.7 million.
There are over 2300 onsite car parking spaces. The taxi rank is the second busiest in Ireland after of Dublin Airport. The anchor tenants are Dunnes, Debenhams and Tesco. When The Square opened it was the largest shopping centre located in the Ireland.
The centre was opened on 23 October 1990 in the presence of 45,000 people by An Taoiseach at the time Charles Haughey, having been built at a cost of £85 million. Others who were in attendance was Gay Byrne, who hosted his 2FM radio show from the Crows Nest in the shopping centre, as well as Mary Harney, Pat Rabbitte, the then Director-General of RTÉ Vincent Finn and the Fine Gael leader at the time Alan Dukes.
It was the first of four large shopping complexes built in the towns surrounding Dublin from the late 1980s onwards and was for a while the largest shopping centre in Ireland. The others are Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and Dundrum Town Centre.
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