Blackrock
Worth seeing in and around Blackrock
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.
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- 02Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland
Islamic complex, including a mosque, in Clonskeagh, Dublin, Ireland
3.7 km · Wikipedia - 03
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- 05Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Postgraduate division of University College Dublin, in Blackrock, Dublin
800 m · Wikipedia - 06
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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.
Getting to Blackrock
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), 15 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 134 km · Belfast (BFS), 151 km
- Stations
- Dún Laoghaire railway station, 3 km · Blackrock railway station, 200 m · Booterstown railway station, 1.5 km · Salthill and Monkstown railway station, 1.8 km · Sydney Parade railway station, 3.1 km
- Charlestown → Blackrock304 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · $150–230
- Shannon → Blackrock1557 km · quickest by road, 27h 32m · $150–205
- Cork → Blackrock220 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €27–37
- 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 Blackrock
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 Blackrock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFour or five mainline trains per day call on the route between Dublin Connolly, Wexford and Rosslare, which has ferries from Fishguard and Pembroke.
- Get inIrish Sea ferries no longer come here, but you can still arrive old-style by Dublin Bay Cruises.
From Wikivoyage: Dún Laoghaire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Blackrock – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Blackrock
Blackrock is 6 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sandymountsuburb of Dublin, Ireland3.3 km
- Foxrocksuburb of Dublin, Ireland3.9 km
- Booterstownhuman settlement1.5 km
- Monkstownsuburb in Leinster, Ireland1.8 km
- Donnybrookdistrict of Dublin, Ireland3.1 km
- Mount Merrionarea of Dublin2.4 km