Ashtown, Dublin
Ashtown is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Ashtown is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is also a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock and falls largely into the postal district of Dublin 15, with some addresses in the Dublin 7 postal district.
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Worth seeing in and around Ashtown, Dublin
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Phoenix Park
The Phoenix Park, previously stylised as Phœnix Park, is a large public urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 kilometres west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 kilometres perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares of recreational space.
2.2 km · park in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 02Glasnevin Cemetery
Glasnevin Cemetery is the national cemetery of Ireland, located on the Northside of Dublin. More than 1.5 million people are buried in the cemetery, including a number of notable historical figures.
3.7 km · cemetery in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland; largest non-denominational cemetery in the country · Wikipedia - 03Dublin Zoo
Dublin Zoo, in Phoenix Park, is a zoo in Dublin, Ireland, and one of Dublin's most popular attractions. Established and designed in 1830 by Decimus Burton, it opened the following year.
3.1 km · zoo · Wikipedia - 04Ashtown Castle
Ashtown Castle is a tower house in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland. It was found hidden within the walls of a much larger and more recent Georgian building, the Under Secretary's Lodge also known as Ashtown Lodge, that was being used by the Papal Nuncio until 1978.
1.1 km · tower house in Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 05Farmleigh
Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family.
2.1 km · state guest house in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 06Dunsink Observatory
The Dunsink Observatory is an astronomical observatory established in 1785 in the townland of Dunsink in the outskirts of the city of Dublin, Ireland. Directors of the observatory include William Rowan Hamilton, who, amongst other things, discovered quaternions, the first non-commutative algebra form, while walking from the observatory to the city with his wife.
1.3 km · observatory · Wikipedia - 07Broom Bridge
Broom Bridge, also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. Broome Bridge is named after William Broome, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company who lived nearby.
2.2 km · bridge in Ireland · Wikipedia - 08Castleknock Castle
Castleknock Castle is a ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland. It is now the site of St.
2.4 km · Ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 09Liffey Railway Bridge
The Liffey Railway Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the River Liffey near Heuston railway station in Dublin in Ireland. It is a wrought iron box truss structure, and joins lines from Heuston Station to Connolly Station through the Phoenix Park Tunnel.
3.6 km · bridge in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 10Irish National War Memorial Gardens
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918", out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war. The Memorial Gardens also commemorate all other Irish men and women who at that time served, fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies, the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and United States armies in support of the Triple Entente's war effort against the Central Powers.
3.6 km · World War One memorial in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ashtown, Dublin
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), 8 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 137 km · Belfast (BFS), 143 km
- Stations
- Broombridge railway station, 2.2 km · Coolmine railway station, 3.9 km · Ashtown railway station, 0 m · Castleknock railway station, 2.7 km · Navan Road Parkway railway station, 900 m
- Charlestown → Ashtown, Dublin4803 km · quickest by air, 10h 36m · $750–1,170
- Shannon → Ashtown, DublinTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Cork → Ashtown, Dublin219 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · €26–36
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ashtown, Dublin
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ashtown, Dublin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inEurolines 871 runs on Saturday evening from London Victoria via Birmingham, Holyhead and the ferry to reach Dublin city centre early Sunday morning; the reverse run leaves Dublin Friday evening.
- Get inhas ferries from Holyhead in Wales (Stena and Irish Ferries, 3 hr 30 min) and Douglas, Isle of Man (Isle of Man Ferries, 3 hr 30 min).
- Get inThe former ferry port of Dún Laoghaire is no longer used.
- Get inAnother ferry route is the short crossing from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast, then by road or rail to Dublin.
- Get inIf you're visiting just for a day trip, don't bring a car into the congested centre, use a Park & Ride.
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Next door to Ashtown, Dublin
Ashtown, Dublin is 7 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Blanchardstownsuburb of Dublin3.4 km
- Cabrasuburb of Dublin, Ireland3 km
- Finglassuburb in Dublin, Ireland2.7 km
- Chapelizodsuburb of Dublin in Dublin City, Leinster, Ireland3 km
- Ashtowna townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland600 m
- St Kevin's Collegeday school located in the Parish of Ballygall in Finglas, Dublin, Ireland3.8 km