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Ballybrack

Ballybrack is an outer residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

Ballybrack
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The place

Ballybrack is an outer residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is in the south of County Dublin, in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown council area. The suburb is 14 km south-east of Dublin city centre, and is south-west of Killiney, north-east of Loughlinstown, east of Cabinteely and north of Shankill.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ballybrack

8 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.

  1. 01
    Manderley Castle

    Manderley Castle, formerly "Victoria Castle" and "Ayesha Castle," is a large castellated Irish mansion built in Victorian style, in Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland. It has been owned by the musician Enya since 1997.

    1.3 km · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Killiney Hill

    Killiney Hill is the southernmost of the two hills which form the southern boundary of Dublin Bay, the other being Dalkey Hill. These two hills form part of Killiney Hill Park.

    1.6 km · 153m high mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dalkey Hill

    Dalkey Hill is the northernmost of the two hills which form the southern boundary of Dublin Bay. Dalkey Hill is 140 metres high and has views over the surrounding areas : Dublin to the northwest; the Irish Sea and the mountains of Wales to the east and southeast; and Bray Head and the Wicklow Mountains to the south.

    2.2 km · Hill in Ireland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Carrickmines Castle

    Carrickmines Castle is an archaeological site in Carrickmines, County Dublin, in eastern Ireland. The castle was built in the Middle Ages to protect the English-ruled Pale around Dublin.

    3.4 km · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Paul's Church, Dublin

    St. Paul's is a former church building of the Catholic Church sited on Arran Quay, Dublin, Ireland.

    3.2 km · church in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Killiney Castle

    Killiney Castle, also known as Mount Malpas, Rocksborough, or Loftus Hill, and now known as Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, is an 18th-century manor house near Killiney in County Dublin, Ireland. The castle was converted into a hotel, which has been open since 1971.

    1.9 km · castle in Ireland from the 13th century · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Killiney Church

    Killiney Church is an ancient church in County Dublin, Ireland.

    600 m · church ruin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tully Church

    Tully Church is an ancient church in County Dublin, Ireland.

    2 km · church in Ireland, Ireland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Ballybrack

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 22 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 135 km · Belfast (BFS), 156 km
Stations
Dalkey railway station, 2.9 km · Killiney railway station, 800 m · Glenageary railway station, 3.1 km · Shankill railway station, 1.9 km · Sandycove and Glasthule railway station, 3.8 km
  • Charlestown → Ballybrack
    4819 km · quickest by air, 11h 15m · $780–1,200
  • Shannon → Ballybrack
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Ballybrack
    4 km · quickest by road, 14 min · €0.5
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ballybrack

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 Ballybrack. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFour mainline trains per day pass through without stopping on the way to Dublin Connolly from Wicklow, Wexford and Rosslare (for ferries to Wales): change at Bray for these.

From Wikivoyage: Dalkey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    251 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    266 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    294 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    303 km

If you know how people move in Ballybrack – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ballybrack

Ballybrack is 12 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dalkeya suburb of Dublin, Ireland1.5 km
  • Foxrocksuburb of Dublin, Ireland3.6 km
  • Shankillsuburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland3 km
  • Cabinteelysuburb of Dublin, Ireland2.3 km
  • KillineyIrish town1.5 km
  • Sandycovesuburb in Leinster, Ireland3.7 km