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Poleglass

Poleglass is an area of west Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Poleglass
Poleglass · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Casement 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
  2. 02
    New 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
  3. 03
    Sir 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
  4. 04
    Musgrave 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Poleglass
    137 km · quickest by road, 14h 24m · £70–95
  • Glasgow → Poleglass
    183 km · quickest by road, 13h 58m · £70–95
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Poleglass
    228 km · quickest by road, 14h 17m · £70–95
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    127 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    151 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    158 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    268 km

If you know how people move in Poleglass – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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