Walkinstown
Walkinstown is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, approximately 6 km southwest of Dublin city centre.
Walkinstown is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, approximately 6 km southwest of Dublin city centre. It is surrounded by Drimnagh to the north, Crumlin to the east, Greenhills to the south, and Ballymount, Bluebell, and Clondalkin to the west. It lies within the postal district of Dublin 12.
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Worth seeing in and around Walkinstown
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.
- 01Phoenix Park
The Phoenix Park, previously stylised as Phœnix Park, is a large public urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 kilometres west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 kilometres perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares of recreational space.
3.8 km · park in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 02Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Kilmainham, Dublin.
3.3 km · art museum in Dublin · Wikipedia - 03Dublin Mosque
Dublin Mosque is a mosque on the South Circular Road, Dublin in Ireland. It is the headquarters of the Islamic Foundation of Ireland.
3.6 km · mosque in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 04Guinness Storehouse
Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland.
3.9 km · Museum and visitor attraction in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 05Mount Jerome Cemetery
Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium is situated in Harold's Cross on the south side of Dublin, Ireland. Since its foundation in 1836, it has witnessed over 300,000 burials.
3.3 km · cemetery in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 06Park West
Park West is a large business park within west Dublin, Ireland. Over 300 companies, with more than 10,000 employees, are based in the business park.
2.9 km · park in Republic of Ireland · Wikipedia - 07Institute of Technology, Tallaght
The Institute of Technology Tallaght was a third-level institution in Tallaght, the largest suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1992, IT Tallaght offered degree and postgraduate courses as well as adult education courses.
4 km · constituent college of TU Dublin · Wikipedia - 08Drimnagh Castle
Drimnagh Castle is a Norman castle located in Drimnagh, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is the only remaining castle in Ireland with a flooded moat around it; this moat is fed by a tributary of a local river, the Camac.
400 m · Norman castle · Wikipedia - 09Irish National War Memorial Gardens
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918", out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war. The Memorial Gardens also commemorate all other Irish men and women who at that time served, fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies, the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and United States armies in support of the Triple Entente's war effort against the Central Powers.
2.7 km · World War One memorial in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia - 10Liffey Railway Bridge
The Liffey Railway Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the River Liffey near Heuston railway station in Dublin in Ireland. It is a wrought iron box truss structure, and joins lines from Heuston Station to Connolly Station through the Phoenix Park Tunnel.
3.5 km · bridge in Dublin, Ireland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Walkinstown
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB), 13 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 141 km · Belfast (BFS), 149 km
- Stations
- Dublin Heuston railway station, 3.9 km · Park West and Cherry Orchard railway station, 2.5 km · Inchicore railway station, 1.9 km · Drimnagh Luas stop, 1.9 km · Belgard Luas stop, 3.7 km
- Charlestown → Walkinstown4804 km · quickest by air, 10h 50m · $760–1,180
- Shannon → WalkinstownTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Cork → Walkinstown215 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €25–35
- 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 Walkinstown
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 Walkinstown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inEurolines 871 runs on Saturday evening from London Victoria via Birmingham, Holyhead and the ferry to reach Dublin city centre early Sunday morning; the reverse run leaves Dublin Friday evening.
- Get inhas ferries from Holyhead in Wales (Stena and Irish Ferries, 3 hr 30 min) and Douglas, Isle of Man (Isle of Man Ferries, 3 hr 30 min).
- Get inThe former ferry port of Dún Laoghaire is no longer used.
- Get inAnother ferry route is the short crossing from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast, then by road or rail to Dublin.
- Get inIf you're visiting just for a day trip, don't bring a car into the congested centre, use a Park & Ride.
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If you know how people move in Walkinstown – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Walkinstown
Walkinstown is 4 km from South Dublin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Terenuresuburb of Dublin in Leinster, Ireland3.5 km
- Chapelizodsuburb of Dublin in Dublin City, Leinster, Ireland3.3 km
- Crumlinsuburb in Dublin, Ireland400 m
- Kilmainhamsuburb of Dublin2.9 km
- Templeoguesuburb of Dublin in Ireland3.3 km
- Inchicoresuburb of Dublin, Ireland1.7 km