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Clonsilla

Clonsilla is a northwestern suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Ireland.

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The place

Clonsilla is a northwestern suburb of Dublin in Fingal, Ireland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Clonsilla

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
    Coolmine

    Coolmine is a primarily residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Fingal. It is also a townland in the civil parish of Clonsilla.

    1.5 km · building · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castleknock Castle

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

    3.8 km · Ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown

    Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown established in 1999, was a third-level institution outside Dublin. In 2019, it merged with the Dublin Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Tallaght to form the new Technological University Dublin.

    3.6 km · constituent college of TU Dublin · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Luttrellstown Castle

    Luttrellstown Castle is a castellated house located in Clonsilla on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland dating from the early 15th century.

    500 m · castle/mansion in Ireland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lucan Bridge

    Lucan Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Lucan, Dublin, Ireland. It joins Lucan's Main Street to the Lower Lucan Road, carrying traffic towards Clonsilla and the north, and the Strawberry Beds to the east.

    3.3 km · bridge in Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    West-Link

    The West-Link is a set of twin bridges over the River Liffey in Dublin. A toll bridge, the West Link forms the central section of the Western Parkway route of the M50 ring road motorway.

    3.2 km · bridge in Ireland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Castleknock Community College

    Castleknock Community College, is an Irish secondary school located on Carpenterstown Road in Castleknock, County Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1995, the school is overseen by the Dublin & Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board.

    2.1 km · community college of the school in Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Liffey Valley Shopping Centre

    Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Dublin, Ireland which comprises 80 stores and 20 restaurants. The centre opened on 14 October 1998 and is located near the junction of the M50 motorway and N4 road closely surrounded by Lucan to the west, Palmerstown Village to the east and Clondalkin to the south.

    3.7 km · shopping centre in the western suburbs of Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lucan Manor

    Lucan House is a Georgian-Palladian house and estate in Lucan, County Dublin. A manor house, it is remembered particularly for its association with the Sarsfield family.

    3.8 km · Georgian-Palladian house in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Finian's Esker church and graveyard

    St Finian's Esker church and graveyard is an historical site in Esker near Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland. It contains a medieval church in ruins and an enclosed graveyard.

    4 km · church in Dublin, 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 Clonsilla

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 11 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 141 km · Belfast (BFS), 142 km
Stations
Coolmine railway station, 1.8 km · Hansfield railway station, 1.7 km · Castleknock railway station, 3 km · Clonsilla railway station, 400 m
  • Charlestown → Clonsilla
    4797 km · quickest by air, 10h 48m · $760–1,180
  • Shannon → Clonsilla
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Clonsilla
    215 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €26–36
  • From anywhere
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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 Clonsilla

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 Clonsilla. 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

    222 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    258 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

    284 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    290 km

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

Around it

Next door to Clonsilla

Clonsilla is 11 km from South Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.