Dunmurry
Dunmurry is a suburban town and townland between Belfast and Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
Dunmurry is a suburban town and townland between Belfast and Lisburn, Northern Ireland. It is 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) south-west of Belfast city centre. Dunmurry is in the Collin electoral ward for the local government district of Belfast City Council.
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Worth seeing in and around Dunmurry
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.
- 01Queen's University Belfast
The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast, is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of the Queen's University of Ireland and opened four years later, together with University of Galway and University College Cork.
5.9 km · public research university in Belfast, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Windsor Park
The National Football Stadium at Windsor Park, more commonly known as Windsor Park, is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Linfield, who own the site's land, while the Irish Football Association own and operate the stadium; paying Linfield an annual rental fee for its use on behalf of the Northern Ireland national football team.
4.8 km · football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland · Wikipedia - 03Botanic Gardens
Botanic Gardens is a public garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Occupying 28 acres of south Belfast, the gardens are popular with office workers, students and tourists.
6 km · public garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland · Wikipedia - 04Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial archaeology, botany, zoology and geology.
5.7 km · part of the National Museum of Northern Ireland · Wikipedia - 05Giant's Ring
The Giant's Ring is a henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The site is a State Care Historic Monument and also a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
3.7 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia - 06Casement Park
Casement Park was the principal Gaelic games stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is located in Andersonstown Road in the west of the city, and is named after the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement.
2.9 km · Sports Stadium · Wikipedia - 07Milltown Cemetery
Milltown Cemetery is a cemetery in west Belfast, Northern Ireland. It lies within the townland of Ballymurphy, between the Falls Road and the M1 motorway.
4.1 km · cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland · Wikipedia - 08Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn
Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Connor in the Church of Ireland. It is situated in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in the ecclesiastical province of Armagh.
4.9 km · church in Lisburn, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09New Grosvenor Stadium
New Grosvenor Stadium and Drumbo Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Ballyskeagh, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is currently used for football matches and formerly hosted greyhound racing, operating under the name Drumbo Park.
1.6 km · multi-purpose stadium in Northern Ireland · Wikipedia - 10Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park
The Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park is a park in South Belfast, Northern Ireland, covering almost 130 acres and is accessible from the Upper Malone Road. It includes meadows, woodland, riverside fields, formal rose gardens, a walled garden and a Japanese garden, as well as a children's playground, coffee shop, an orienteering course and many walks.
1.9 km · Public park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Cloona House
Cloona House is a historic house in the Poleglass area of Dunmurry.
- 02Bobby Sands
While the most famous mural may be in Belfast, there is another in the Twinbrook estate, birthplace of Bobby Sands.
- 03Bobby Sands Corner
Within walking distance of the mural, Bobby Sands Corner is a more unique take on Republician street art, being a framed picture.
- 04Colin Area Roll of Remembrance
Gardenmore Road.
From Wikivoyage: Dunmurry, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Colin Glen Forest Park
Autumn and winter: daily 9AM-5PM; spring and summer: daily 9AM-6PM.
- 02Long
They are likely to date back to the early 1900s or 1800s.
- 03Pairc Nua Chollan
Park and playground with the "Leap of Faith" monument.
- 04Colin Glen Zip Line
28 Colin Glen Road.
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Where to eat
- 01Beechlawn Hotel and Restaurant Dunmurry
4 Dunmurry Lane, info@beechlawnhotel.com.
- 02Fuscos Fish & Chip Shop
4 Jasmine End,.
- 03Urban Fire
Unit 27-28 Dairy Farm Shopping Centre,.
- 04Little Mexican Deli
Unit 2, Dairy Farm Shopping Centre,.
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Getting to Dunmurry
- Airports
- Belfast (BFS), 18 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 104 km · Dublin (DUB), 126 km
- Stations
- City Hospital railway station, 6 km · Dunmurry railway station, 400 m · Derriaghy railway station, 1.3 km · Hilden railway station, 3.4 km · Lambeg railway station, 2.8 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dunmurry138 km · quickest by road, 14h 22m · £70–95
- Glasgow → Dunmurry183 km · quickest by road, 13h 56m · £70–95
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dunmurry228 km · quickest by road, 14h 16m · £70–95
- 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 Dunmurry
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 Dunmurry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundNational Cycleway 9 runs mostly on-road from Belfast to Lisburn, Craigavon and Portadown then off-road to Scarva and Newry, with other routes branching off across Armagh and Tyrone.
From Wikivoyage: Lisburn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Dunmurry – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Dunmurry
Dunmurry is 7 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lisburncity in Northern Ireland4.1 km
- Andersonstownsuburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland3.2 km
- Gaeltacht QuarterIrish-speaking neighbourhood in Belfast, Northern Ireland5.4 km
- Stranmillissuburb in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK5 km
- Poleglasssuburb in Belfast, Northern Ireland1.2 km
- Taughmonaghhuman settlement in Northern Ireland2.4 km