Poleglass
Poleglass is an area of west Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Poleglass is an area of west Belfast in Northern Ireland. It is the name of a townland, a modern electoral ward, and a working class suburb. The townland is situated in the civil parish of Derriaghy and the historic Barony of Belfast Upper. It is mainly an Irish nationalist area.
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Worth seeing in and around Poleglass
4 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.
- 01Casement 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.
3.1 km · Sports Stadium · Wikipedia - 02New 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.
2.4 km · multi-purpose stadium in Northern Ireland · Wikipedia - 03Sir 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.
3.1 km · Public park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Musgrave Park, Belfast
Musgrave Park is a public park in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Situated in the south west of the city, in Ballygammon townland off Stockman's Lane, the surrounding area is a mix of trading estates and residential housing, with the M1 motorway passing close to one end.
3.5 km · park in Belfast, Northern Ireland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Poleglass
- Airports
- Belfast (BFS), 17 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 105 km · Dublin (DUB), 126 km
- Stations
- Derriaghy railway station, 1.5 km · Hilden railway station, 3.6 km · Lambeg railway station, 2.9 km · Dunmurry railway station, 1.2 km · Finaghy railway station, 2.4 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Poleglass137 km · quickest by road, 14h 24m · £70–95
- Glasgow → Poleglass183 km · quickest by road, 13h 58m · £70–95
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Poleglass228 km · quickest by road, 14h 17m · £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 Poleglass
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 Poleglass. 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 Poleglass – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Poleglass
Poleglass is 8 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dunmurryelectoral ward for Belfast City Council.1.2 km
- Andersonstownsuburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland3.1 km
- Taughmonaghhuman settlement in Northern Ireland3.3 km
- BalmoralDistrict Electoral Area (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland3.7 km
- Finaghysuburb and electoral ward of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK2.4 km
- Hannahstownhuman settlement in Northern Ireland2.8 km