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Rathcoole

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rathcoole

2 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
    Baldonnel

    Baldonnel is a townland in County Dublin, Ireland. It is an agricultural and industrial area near Rathcoole, Clondalkin, Tallaght, Lucan, Saggart, Newcastle and Naas.

    3.1 km · Townland in South Dublin, site of the HQ of the Irish Air Corps · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Greenogue

    Greenogue is a football ground located in Newcastle, South Dublin, Ireland.

    2.3 km · football ground in Newcastle, 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.

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Getting to Rathcoole

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 21 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 151 km · Belfast (BFS), 154 km
Stations
Casement Aerodrome, 2.5 km · Citywest Campus Luas stop, 3.6 km · Fortunestown Luas stop, 3.2 km · Saggart Luas stop, 2.3 km
  • Charlestown → Rathcoole
    4765 km · quickest by air, 14h 54m · $890–1,380
  • Shannon → Rathcoole
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Rathcoole
    205 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · €24–33
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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 Rathcoole

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 Rathcoole. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOn Thursday one bus extends to Enniscorthy, Wexford and Rosslare ferry port.

From Wikivoyage: Blessington, 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

    217 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    264 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    269 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    295 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    302 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rathcoole

Rathcoole is 9 km from South Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Newcastlevillage in south-west South Dublin, Ireland2.6 km
  • Saggartvillage in Leinster, Ireland1.9 km