Carrickmines
Carrickmines is an outer suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland.
Carrickmines is an outer suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland. The area, still semi-rural, was historically on the border of English control and featured a defensive construction, Carrickmines Castle, which became the subject of national controversy during the building of a late stage of Dublin's M50 orbital motorway.
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Worth seeing in and around Carrickmines
7 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.
- 01Three Rock
Three Rock Mountain is a mountain in County Dublin, Ireland. It is 444 metres high and forms part of the group of hills in the Dublin Mountains which comprises Two Rock, Three Rock, Kilmashogue and Tibradden mountains.
3.9 km · mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia - 02Carrickgollogan
Carrickgollogan is a hill in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown in Ireland, towards the southern border of the traditional County Dublin. It is 276 metres high, on the eastern edge of the Dublin Mountains, rising above the districts of Rathmichael and Shankill.
3.8 km · 276m high mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia - 03Carrickmines 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.
700 m · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia - 04Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb
The Ballyedmonduff Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and a National Monument in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.
3.7 km · wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument in Ireland · Wikipedia - 05Kilgobbin Castle
Kilgobbin Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Dublin, Ireland.
2.5 km · tower house in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland · Wikipedia - 06Tully Church
Tully Church is an ancient church in County Dublin, Ireland.
1.9 km · church in Ireland, Ireland · Wikipedia - 07Jackson Park, Kilternan
Jackson Park is an association football stadium in the Republic of Ireland based in Kilternan, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.
900 m · football stadium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Carrickmines
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), 21 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 138 km · Belfast (BFS), 157 km
- Stations
- Central Park Luas stop, 2.9 km · Brides Glen Luas stop, 2.6 km · Cherrywood Luas stop, 2.4 km · Laughanstown, 1.8 km · Glencairn Luas stop, 2.8 km
- Charlestown → Carrickmines4816 km · quickest by air, 11h 12m · $780–1,200
- Shannon → CarrickminesTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Cork → Carrickmines216 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · €26–37
- 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 Carrickmines
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 Carrickmines. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt also has mainline trains from Dublin Connolly to Wicklow, Arklow, Gorey, Wexford and Rosslare, for ferries to Fishguard and Pembroke.
- Get aroundAlpine Cabs (+353 87 299 8836) and Furlongs Minibus (+353 86 263 1061) can take you round the area.
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Carrickmines is 10 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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