Leopardstown
Leopardstown, historically called Ballinlore, is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains.
Leopardstown, historically called Ballinlore, is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains. With institutional lands and a large racecourse, it is divided by the M50 motorway, and adjoins Sandyford, Stepaside, Ballyogan, Carrickmines, Foxrock and Stillorgan.
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Worth seeing in and around Leopardstown
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.
- 01Three Rock
Three Rock Mountain is a mountain in County Dublin, Ireland. It is 444 metres high and forms part of the group of hills in the Dublin Mountains which comprises Two Rock, Three Rock, Kilmashogue and Tibradden mountains.
3.6 km · mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia - 02Carrickmines Castle
Carrickmines Castle is an archaeological site in Carrickmines, County Dublin, in eastern Ireland. The castle was built in the Middle Ages to protect the English-ruled Pale around Dublin.
2.7 km · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia - 03Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
The Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is the graduate business school of the University College Dublin and is located in Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland, on the site of the former teacher-training Carysfort College. Undergraduate business education is provided by the Quinn School of Business on USD's main Belfield campus.
3.2 km · postgraduate division of University College Dublin, in Blackrock, Dublin · Wikipedia - 04Kilgobbin Castle
Kilgobbin Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Dublin, Ireland.
1.3 km · tower house in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland · Wikipedia - 05Dundrum Luas stop
Dundrum is a stop on the Luas light rail tram system in Dublin, Ireland which serves the suburb of Dundrum. It opened in 2004 as a stop on the Green Line, which re-uses the alignment of the Harcourt Street railway line which closed in 1958.
3.6 km · Tram/light rail stop in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 06Dundrum Town Centre
Dundrum Town Centre is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. It is one of Ireland's two largest shopping centres with over 131 shops, 47 restaurants, 3 amusement facilities and a cinema, retail floor space of 111,484 m2 and almost 140,000 m2 total floor space, and over 3,000 car parking spaces.
3 km · Large shopping centre in southern suburban Dublin · Wikipedia - 07St. Andrew's College
St. Andrew's College Dublin is a co-educational, inter-denominational, international private day school, founded in 1894 by members of the Presbyterian community, and now located in Booterstown, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.
3.9 km · college in Booterstown, Ireland · Wikipedia - 08William Dargan Bridge
William Dargan Bridge, informally Dundrum Luas Bridge, opened in 2004, is a 162 metre cable-stayed bridge in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. It carries the Green Line of the Luas over the busy Taney junction, of the R112 and R117 regional roads as well as the little-known Slang River.
3.8 km · bridge in Ireland · Wikipedia - 09Friends Burial Ground, Dublin
The Friends Burial Ground, also called Temple Hill Burial Ground or the Friends Sleeping Place is a Quaker burial ground located at Temple Hill, Blackrock, Dublin. It opened in 1860 and is one of two Quaker burial grounds in Dublin, the other being at Cork Street.
3.6 km · cemetery in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 10Carysfort College
Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort was a College of Education in Dublin, Ireland from its foundation in 1877 until its closure in 1988. Educating primary school teachers, and located in a parkland campus in Blackrock, it was a recognised college of the National University of Ireland from April 1975.
3.2 km · Teachers college in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Leopardstown
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), 18 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 138 km · Belfast (BFS), 154 km
- Stations
- Central Park Luas stop, 100 m · Balally Luas stop, 2.8 km · Laughanstown, 4 km · Glencairn Luas stop, 500 m · The Gallops Luas stop, 1 km
- Charlestown → Leopardstown4814 km · quickest by air, 11h 4m · $770–1,190
- Shannon → LeopardstownTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Cork → Leopardstown217 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Leopardstown
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 Leopardstown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFour or five mainline trains per day call on the route between Dublin Connolly, Wexford and Rosslare, which has ferries from Fishguard and Pembroke.
- Get inIrish Sea ferries no longer come here, but you can still arrive old-style by Dublin Bay Cruises.
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Next door to Leopardstown
Leopardstown is 8 km from Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Foxrocksuburb of Dublin, Ireland2.1 km
- Dundrumsuburb of Dublin3.4 km
- Blackrocksuburb of Dublin3.9 km
- Cabinteelysuburb of Dublin, Ireland3.7 km
- Mount Merrionarea of Dublin2.9 km
- Sandyfordsuburb of Dublin1.3 km