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Sandyford

Sandyford is an outer suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

Sandyford
Sandyford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sandyford is an outer suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sandyford

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.

  1. 01
    Three 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.

    2.9 km · mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Two Rock

    Two Rock is a mountain in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is 536 metres high and is the 382nd highest mountain in Ireland.

    3.9 km · mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland

    The Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland is an Islamic complex, including a mosque, in Clonskeagh, Dublin, Ireland. It is funded by the al-Maktoum Foundation of Dubai and has a Sunni orientation.

    3.9 km · Islamic complex, including a mosque, in Clonskeagh, Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kilmashogue

    Kilmashogue or Kilmashoge is a mountain in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county in Ireland. It is 408 metres high and forms part of the group of hills in the Dublin Mountains which comprises Two Rock, Three Rock, Kilmashogue and Tibradden Mountains.

    3.5 km · mountain in Ireland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Carrickmines 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.

    3.8 km · castle in Ireland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Michael 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.

    3.9 km · postgraduate division of University College Dublin, in Blackrock, Dublin · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kilgobbin Castle

    Kilgobbin Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Dublin, Ireland.

    1.4 km · tower house in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dundrum 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.

    2.1 km · Large shopping centre in southern suburban Dublin · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Dundrum 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.

    2.8 km · Tram/light rail stop in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    William 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.

    2.9 km · bridge in 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 Sandyford

Airports
Dublin (DUB), 18 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 139 km · Belfast (BFS), 154 km
Stations
Balally Luas stop, 1.9 km · Central Park Luas stop, 1.4 km · Sandyford Luas stop, 1.6 km · Glencairn Luas stop, 1.1 km · The Gallops Luas stop, 1.6 km
  • Charlestown → Sandyford
    4875 km · quickest by air, 12h 36m · $770–1,190
  • Shannon → Sandyford
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Cork → Sandyford
    215 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · €26–36
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

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 Sandyford

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Dún Laoghaire, 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

    234 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    256 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    266 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    293 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    301 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sandyford

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