Shankill
Shankill is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, on the southeast of County Dublin, close to the border with County Wicklow. It is in the local government area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and had a population of 14,257 as of the 2016 census.Photo: sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 14,300 residents
- Description: suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Shankill, Dublin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shankill railway station and Shanganagh Cemetery.
Shankill railway station
Railway station
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Shankill railway station serves Shankill, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.
Shanganagh Cemetery
Cemetery
Shanganagh Cemetery is a cemetery in south County Dublin, in the administrative county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown just to the south of Shankill. The cemetery consists of two areas, on the Dublin Road, the other to the east, on the western side of the railway between Shankill and Bray.
Woodbrook
Railway station
Woodbrook DART Station is a station serving the DART line in the Shanganagh area of Dublin, Ireland. Construction of the new DART station started in November 2023, with the station officially opening on 10 August 2025.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rathmichael and Cherrywood.
Rathmichael
Quarter
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
Rathmichael is a suburb on the southside of Dublin, in the local government area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, near the southern border of County Dublin with County Wicklow.
Cherrywood
Suburb
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
Cherrywood is a developing suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bordering Cabinteely, Loughlinstown and Rathmichael. It is located to the southeast of the city, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.
Ballybrack
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ballybrack is a residential suburb of Dublin, in the south of County Dublin. It is in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is southwest of Killiney, northeast of Loughlinstown, east of Cabinteely and north of Shankill. Ballybrack is situated 2½ km north of Shankill.
Shankill
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.23023° or 53° 13′ 49″ northLongitude
-6.12418° or 6° 7′ 27″ westPopulation
14,300Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
9C5M6VJG+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 52248852OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2961523Wikidata ID
Q2588702
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Shankill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shankill”
- Bulgarian: “Шанкил”
- Catalan: “Shankill”
- Cebuano: “Shankill”
- Chinese: “香基尔”
- Danish: “Shankill”
- Dutch: “Shankill”
- Finnish: “Shankill”
- French: “Shankill”
- German: “Shankill Castle”
- Irish: “Seanchill”
- Italian: “Shankill”
- Lithuanian: “Šankilis”
- Persian: “شنکیل”
- Polish: “Shankill”
- Russian: “Шанкилл”
- Spanish: “Shankill”
- Swedish: “Shankill”
- Urdu: “شینکل، ڈبلن”
- Urdu: “شینکل”
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