Monkstown
Monkstown, historically known as Carrickbrennan, is a suburb on the southside of Dublin, Ireland, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. It is on the coast, between Blackrock and Dún Laoghaire while also bordering Sallynoggin and Deansgrange inland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: TheChonkster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Suburb with 5,560 residents
- Description: suburb in Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Monkstown, Dublin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lambert Puppet Theatre and Salthill and Monkstown.
Lambert Puppet Theatre
Theater building
The Lambert Puppet Theatre & Museum was a puppet theatre located in Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland. It was a family-run business established in 1972 by Eugene Lambert, and hosted an international puppet festival annually.
Salthill and Monkstown
Railway station
Photo: National Library of Ireland on The Commons, No restrictions.
Salthill and Monkstown railway station serves the areas of Salthill and Monkstown in Dublin, Ireland. It is on the DART line between the stations of Seapoint and Dún Laoghaire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dún Laoghaire and Deansgrange.
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire is a port 10 km south of Dublin. It's no longer the ferry port, but has strong associations with James Joyce, who wrote and set the opening scenes of Ulysses here.
Deansgrange
Suburb
Photo: Dmountain, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Deansgrange is a southern suburb of Dublin, centred on the crossroads of Clonkeen Road and Kill Lane. The area shares the name Clonkeen with the area further east, known as Kill of the Grange.
Blackrock
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Blackrock is an affluent suburb of Dublin, Ireland, 3 km northwest of Dún Laoghaire. It is named after the local geological rock formation to be found in the area of Blackrock Park.
Monkstown
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.29365° or 53° 17′ 37″ northLongitude
-6.1539° or 6° 9′ 14″ westPopulation
5,560Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
9C5M7RVW+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 52257324OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2962543Wikidata ID
Q2088328
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Monkstown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Monkstown”
- Cebuano: “Monkstown”
- Chinese: “蒙克斯敦，都柏林郡”
- Chinese: “蒙克斯敦”
- Chinese: “蒙克斯頓”
- Dutch: “Monkstown, County Dublin”
- French: “Monkstown”
- German: “Monkstown Castle”
- Irish: “Baile na Manach”
- Japanese: “マンクズタウン”
- Japanese: “モンクスタウン”
- Polish: “Monkstown”
- Russian: “Монкстаун”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile na Manach”
- Swedish: “Monkstown”
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Highlights include Monkstown Church of Ireland and St Patrick’s.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monkstown”. Photo: TheChonkster, CC BY-SA 3.0.