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Chapelizod

Chapelizod is a suburban village of Dublin, Ireland.

Chapelizod
Chapelizod · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chapelizod is a suburban village of Dublin, Ireland. It lies in the wooded valley of the River Liffey, near the Strawberry Beds and the Phoenix Park. The village is associated with Iseult of Ireland and the location of Iseult's chapel. Chapelizod is under the administration of Dublin City Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chapelizod

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
    Phoenix Park

    The Phoenix Park, previously stylised as Phœnix Park, is a large public urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 kilometres west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 kilometres perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares of recreational space.

    1.4 km · park in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Irish Museum of Modern Art

    The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Kilmainham, Dublin.

    3 km · art museum in Dublin · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dublin Zoo

    Dublin Zoo, in Phoenix Park, is a zoo in Dublin, Ireland, and one of Dublin's most popular attractions. Established and designed in 1830 by Decimus Burton, it opened the following year.

    2.8 km · zoo · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ashtown Castle

    Ashtown Castle is a tower house in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland. It was found hidden within the walls of a much larger and more recent Georgian building, the Under Secretary's Lodge also known as Ashtown Lodge, that was being used by the Papal Nuncio until 1978.

    2.3 km · tower house in Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Farmleigh

    Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family.

    2.3 km · state guest house in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Guinness Storehouse

    Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland.

    3.9 km · Museum and visitor attraction in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Frank Sherwin Bridge

    Frank Sherwin Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. It joins St.

    3.6 km · bridge · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Anna Livia

    Anna Livia is a bronze monument located in Croppies' Memorial Park in Dublin, Ireland. It was formerly located on O'Connell Street.

    3.6 km · Bronze monument in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Castleknock Castle

    Castleknock Castle is a ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland. It is now the site of St.

    2.7 km · Ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Park West

    Park West is a large business park within west Dublin, Ireland. Over 300 companies, with more than 10,000 employees, are based in the business park.

    2.6 km · park in Republic of 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 Chapelizod

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 11 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 140 km · Belfast (BFS), 146 km
Stations
Dublin Heuston railway station, 3.5 km · Ashtown railway station, 3.2 km · Navan Road Parkway railway station, 3.4 km · Park West and Cherry Orchard railway station, 1.9 km · Inchicore railway station, 1.2 km
  • Charlestown → Chapelizod
    4803 km · quickest by air, 10h 44m · $760–1,170
  • Shannon → Chapelizod
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Chapelizod
    216 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · €25–35
  • 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 Chapelizod

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 Chapelizod. 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

    226 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    260 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    267 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    287 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    294 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chapelizod

Chapelizod is 6 km from South Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.