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Dundonald

Dundonald is a large settlement and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

Dundonald
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The place

Dundonald is a large settlement and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies east of Belfast and is a suburb of the city. It is home to Moat Park, the Ulster Hospital, and Dundonald International Ice Bowl.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Dundonald

Airports
Belfast (BFS), 27 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 96 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 128 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dundonald
    9 km · quickest by road, 19 min · £1–1.5
  • Glasgow → Dundonald
    38 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £4–6
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dundonald
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dundonald

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBus 9 / 10 runs M-Sa hourly from Newtownards down the Ards Peninsula via Mount Stewart House and Grey Abbey to Portaferry, for ferries to Strangford.
  • Go nextStrangford, reached from the Ards peninsula by ferry, has a dilapidated collection of old castles.

From Wikivoyage: Newtownards, 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
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    117 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    144 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    153 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    230 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    265 km

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Next door to Dundonald

Dundonald is 7 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.