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Carrickmines

Carrickmines is an outer suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland.

Carrickmines
Carrickmines · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Three 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
  2. 02
    Carrickgollogan

    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
  3. 03
    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.

    700 m · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ballyedmonduff 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
  5. 05
    Kilgobbin Castle

    Kilgobbin Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Dublin, Ireland.

    2.5 km · tower house in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tully Church

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

    1.9 km · church in Ireland, Ireland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Jackson 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

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 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 → Carrickmines
    4816 km · quickest by air, 11h 12m · $780–1,200
  • Shannon → Carrickmines
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Carrickmines
    216 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · €26–37
  • 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 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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Enniskerry, 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

    237 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    252 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    268 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    295 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    304 km

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

Around it

Next door to Carrickmines

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