Donnybrook
Worth seeing in and around Donnybrook
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.
- 01Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann is the lower house and principal chamber of the Oireachtas, which also includes the president of Ireland and a senate called Seanad Éireann. It consists of 174 members, each known as a Teachta Dála.
3.6 km · lower house of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) · Wikipedia - 02Aviva Stadium
Aviva Stadium, also known as the Dublin Arena, is a sports stadium located in Dublin, Ireland. It has a capacity of 51,711.
2.4 km · football and rugby stadium in Dublin · Wikipedia - 03University College Dublin
University College Dublin, commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With more than 38,000 students, it is Ireland's largest university.
700 m · university located in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 04National Library of Ireland
The National Library of Ireland is Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The mission of the National Library of Ireland is "To collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge." The library is a reference library and, as such, does not lend.
3.7 km · heritage institution · Wikipedia - 05Leinster House
Leinster House is the seat of the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland. Originally, it was the ducal palace of the Dukes of Leinster.
3.6 km · building housing the parliament of Ireland · Wikipedia - 06National Gallery of Ireland
The National Gallery of Ireland houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street.
3.6 km · art museum in Dublin · Wikipedia - 07National Museum of Ireland
The National Museum of Ireland is Ireland's leading museum institution, with a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history. It has three branches in Dublin, the archaeology and natural history museums adjacent on Kildare Street and Merrion Square, and a newer Decorative Arts and History branch at the former Collins Barracks, and the Country Life museum in County Mayo.
3.6 km · national museum in Dublin and Castlebar, Ireland · Wikipedia - 08Saint Stephen's Green
St Stephen's Green is a garden square and public park located in the city centre of Dublin, Ireland. The current landscape of the park was designed by William Sheppard.
3.6 km · public park in central Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 09Library of Trinity College Dublin
The Library of Trinity College Dublin is the main library that serves Trinity College, and is the largest library in Ireland. It is a legal deposit or "copyright library", which means that publishers in Ireland must deposit a copy of all their publications there without charge.
4 km · library in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 10National University of Ireland
The National University of Ireland is a federal university system of constituent universities and recognised colleges set up under the Irish Universities Act 1908, and significantly amended by the Universities Act, 1997. The constituent universities are for all essential purposes independent universities, except that the degrees and diplomas are those of the National University of Ireland with its seat in Dublin.
3.2 km · public university system in Ireland; successor to Royal University 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.
Getting to Donnybrook
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), 13 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 136 km · Belfast (BFS), 149 km
- Stations
- Dublin Port, 3.7 km · Dublin Pearse railway station, 3.7 km · Lansdowne Road railway station, 2.3 km · Blackrock railway station, 3.1 km · Booterstown railway station, 1.9 km
- Charlestown → Donnybrook8 km · quickest by road, 32 min · $1
- Shannon → Donnybrook1521 km · quickest by road, 27h 11m · $155–210
- Cork → Donnybrook219 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · €26–36
- 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 Donnybrook
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 Donnybrook. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
- 01234 km
- 02260 km
- 03261 km
- 04289 km
- 05296 km
If you know how people move in Donnybrook – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Donnybrook
Donnybrook is 3 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.