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Dublin 15

Dublin 15, also rendered as D15, is a postal district in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland.

Dublin 15
Dublin 15 · Olliebailie (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Dublin 15, also rendered as D15, is a postal district in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland. It is 11 km (6.8 mi) west of the General Post Office in Dublin city.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dublin 15

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
    Farmleigh

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

    3.6 km · state guest house in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dunsink Observatory

    The Dunsink Observatory is an astronomical observatory established in 1785 in the townland of Dunsink in the outskirts of the city of Dublin, Ireland. Directors of the observatory include William Rowan Hamilton, who, amongst other things, discovered quaternions, the first non-commutative algebra form, while walking from the observatory to the city with his wife.

    3.7 km · observatory · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Castleknock Castle

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

    3.1 km · Ruined Norman castle in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    700 m · building · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.9 km · constituent college of TU Dublin · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Luttrellstown Castle

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

    2.1 km · castle/mansion in Ireland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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
  8. 08
    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
  9. 09
    Farmleigh Bridge

    The Farmleigh Bridge, also known as the Silver Bridge, Guinness Bridge or Strawberry Beds Bridge, is a disused bridge spanning the River Liffey and the Lower Lucan Road in the Strawberry Beds, Dublin, Ireland.

    3.8 km · bridge in Ireland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Tolka Valley Park

    Tolka Valley Park is a public park on the River Tolka, spanning the suburbs of Ashtown, Finglas and Glasnevin, in Dublin, Ireland. Covering approximately 50 hectares, sections of the park are laid-out over a former city landfill, while the eastern part of the park is located on the estate lands of the former Finglaswood House.

    700 m · park in 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 Dublin 15

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 10 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 139 km · Belfast (BFS), 141 km
Stations
Coolmine railway station, 1.5 km · Hansfield railway station, 3.3 km · Castleknock railway station, 1.8 km · Clonsilla railway station, 2.2 km · Navan Road Parkway railway station, 3.5 km
  • Charlestown → Dublin 15
    4799 km · quickest by air, 10h 41m · $760–1,170
  • Shannon → Dublin 15
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Dublin 15
    218 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · €26–36
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

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 Dublin 15

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 Dublin 15. 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

    224 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    256 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

    282 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    289 km

If you know how people move in Dublin 15 – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dublin 15

Dublin 15 is 12 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Blanchardstownsuburb of Dublin1 km
  • Clonsillasuburb in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland1.8 km
  • Mulhuddartsuburb of Dublin1.4 km
  • Ongarsuburb in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland3.2 km
  • Ashtowna townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland3.8 km
  • Tyrrelstowntownland in the civil parish of Mulhuddart, Fingal2.9 km