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Finglas

Finglas is a northwestern outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

Finglas
Finglas · Darren J. Prior
The place

Finglas is a northwestern outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies close to Junction 5 of the M50 motorway, and the N2 road. Nearby suburbs include Glasnevin and Ballymun; Dublin Airport is seven km (4.3 mi) to the north. Finglas lies mainly in the postal district of Dublin 11.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Finglas

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 5 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 134 km · Belfast (BFS), 141 km
  • Charlestown → Finglas
    4805 km · quickest by air, 10h 30m · $750–1,160
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  • Shannon → Finglas
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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  • Cork → Finglas
    221 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · €26–36
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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 Finglas

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 Finglas. 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

    230 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    270 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    281 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    288 km

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Finglas is 7 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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