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Deansgrange

Deansgrange is a southern suburb of Dublin, centred on the crossroads of Clonkeen Road and Kill Lane.

Deansgrange
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The place

Deansgrange is a southern suburb of Dublin, centred on the crossroads of Clonkeen Road and Kill Lane. The area shares the name Clonkeen with the area further east, known as Kill of the Grange.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Deansgrange

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
    James Joyce Tower and Museum

    The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel Ulysses take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday.

    3.5 km · museum in Dublin, Republic of Ireland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Manderley Castle

    Manderley Castle, formerly "Victoria Castle" and "Ayesha Castle," is a large castellated Irish mansion built in Victorian style, in Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland. It has been owned by the musician Enya since 1997.

    3.8 km · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Killiney Hill

    Killiney Hill is the southernmost of the two hills which form the southern boundary of Dublin Bay, the other being Dalkey Hill. These two hills form part of Killiney Hill Park.

    3.7 km · 153m high mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Maritime Museum of Ireland

    The National Maritime Museum of Ireland opened in 1978 in the former Mariners' Church in Moran Park, located between the seafront and the centre of Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. President Michael D. Higgins officially re-opened the museum in 2012.

    2.6 km · maritime museum in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.9 km · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

    The Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is the graduate business school of the University College Dublin and is located in Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland, on the site of the former teacher-training Carysfort College. Undergraduate business education is provided by the Quinn School of Business on USD's main Belfield campus.

    2.4 km · postgraduate division of University College Dublin, in Blackrock, Dublin · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kilgobbin Castle

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

    3.9 km · tower house in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Andrew's College

    St. Andrew's College Dublin is a co-educational, inter-denominational, international private day school, founded in 1894 by members of the Presbyterian community, and now located in Booterstown, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

    3.9 km · college in Booterstown, Ireland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Carrickbrennan Churchyard

    Carrickbrennan Churchyard located on Carrickbrennan Road, Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland is a graveyard that can still be seen today, but is no longer in use. It is notable as the burial place of many people who perished in local maritime disasters.

    1.5 km · cemetery in Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Friends Burial Ground, Dublin

    The Friends Burial Ground, also called Temple Hill Burial Ground or the Friends Sleeping Place is a Quaker burial ground located at Temple Hill, Blackrock, Dublin. It opened in 1860 and is one of two Quaker burial grounds in Dublin, the other being at Cork Street.

    1.9 km · cemetery 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 Deansgrange

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 18 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 135 km · Belfast (BFS), 153 km
Stations
Dún Laoghaire railway station, 2.7 km · Blackrock railway station, 2.9 km · Glenageary railway station, 2.7 km · Salthill and Monkstown railway station, 2 km · Sandycove and Glasthule railway station, 2.6 km
  • Charlestown → Deansgrange
    4816 km · quickest by air, 11h 5m · $770–1,190
  • Shannon → Deansgrange
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Deansgrange
    219 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · €26–37
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Deansgrange

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFour or five mainline trains per day call on the route between Dublin Connolly, Wexford and Rosslare, which has ferries from Fishguard and Pembroke.
  • Get inIrish Sea ferries no longer come here, but you can still arrive old-style by Dublin Bay Cruises.

From Wikivoyage: Dún Laoghaire, 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

    238 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    255 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    264 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    292 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

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Around it

Next door to Deansgrange

Deansgrange is 8 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.