High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yagoona is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Yagoona is located 20 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Bankstown. Yagoona is surrounded by the suburbs of Sefton, Birrong, Chullora, Bass Hill, Greenacre, Georges Hall, Condell Park and Bankstown. The area now known as Yagoona, Bass Hill, and north Bankstown was called Irish Town, due to the high concentration of Irish rebels transported here from Ireland in the late 1700s. Land grants were issued to Irish families and finally the suburb of Yagoona was created in 1927. St Matthew's Anglican Church was built on Liverpool Road (now Hume Highway) in 1861 to cater for the Protestants of the district as well as to function as a school.