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Blanchardstown

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Worth seeing in and around Blanchardstown

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.

  1. 01
    Ashtown Castle

    Tower house in Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Farmleigh

    State guest house in Dublin, Ireland

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dunsink Observatory

    Observatory

    2.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Castleknock Castle

    Ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland

    2.3 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Coolmine

    Building

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown

    Constituent college of TU Dublin

    2 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Luttrellstown Castle

    Castle/mansion in Ireland

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    West-Link

    Bridge in Ireland

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Castleknock Community College

    Community college of the school in Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland

    2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Farmleigh Bridge

    Bridge in Ireland

    3.1 km · 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.

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Getting to Blanchardstown

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 9 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 139 km · Belfast (BFS), 142 km
Stations
Coolmine railway station, 1.6 km · Ashtown railway station, 3.2 km · Castleknock railway station, 800 m · Navan Road Parkway railway station, 2.3 km · Clonsilla railway station, 3.2 km
  • Charlestown → Blanchardstown
    4799 km · quickest by air, 10h 41m · $760–1,170
  • Shannon → Blanchardstown
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Blanchardstown
    218 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · €25–36
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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 Blanchardstown

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Dublin, 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

    225 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    256 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    272 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    283 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    289 km

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Around it

Next door to Blanchardstown

Blanchardstown is 10 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Clonsillasuburb in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland2.8 km
  • Mulhuddartsuburb of Dublin2.2 km
  • Ashtowna townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland2.7 km
  • Tyrrelstowntownland in the civil parish of Mulhuddart, Fingal3.5 km
  • Littlepacesuburb of Dublin in Fingal, Leinster, Ireland300 m
  • Dublin 15postal district in Leinster, Ireland1.2 km