Dublin Bay
Dublin Bay is a C-shaped inlet of the Irish Sea on the east coast of Ireland. The bay is about 10 kilometres wide along its north–south base, and 7 km in length to its apex at the centre of the city of Dublin; stretching from Howth Head in the north to Dalkey…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Poolbeg Lighthouse and Dun Laoghaire West Lighthouse.
Poolbeg Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: IanKMantel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Poolbeg Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation at the mouth of the River Liffey, near Poolbeg in Dublin, Ireland. First established in 1767, it initially operated on candlepower but this was changed to oil in 1786.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dún Laoghaire and Dollymount.
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.
Dollymount
Locality
Photo: Peter Gerken, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dollymount, often known as "Dollyer" to Dubliners, is a coastal suburban area on the north coast of Dublin Bay, within Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, just east of Saint Anne's Park.
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.
Dublin Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: inlet of the Irish Sea in Ireland
- Category: body of water
- Location: Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.33456° or 53° 20′ 4″ northLongitude
-6.11983° or 6° 7′ 11″ westOpen location code
9C5M8VMJ+R3OpenStreetMap ID
way 119562181OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2964571Wikidata ID
Q148621
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Dublin Bay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dublingo badia”
- Belarusian: “Дублінская затока”
- Belarusian: “Дублінскі заліў”
- Breton: “Bae Dulenn”
- Cebuano: “Dublin Bay (luuk sa Ireland)”
- Cebuano: “Dublin Bay”
- Chinese: “都柏林灣”
- Danish: “Dublin Bay”
- Danish: “Dublin Bugt”
- Danish: “Dublinbugten”
- Dutch: “Baai van Dublin”
- Dutch: “Dublin Bay”
- Esperanto: “Dublina Golfo”
- French: “baie de Dublin”
- French: “Baie de Dublin”
- Georgian: “დუბლინის ყურე”
- German: “Bucht von Dublin”
- German: “Dublin Bay”
- Greek: “Κόλπος Δουβλίνου”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ דבלין”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Dublin”
- Irish: “Bá Bhaile Átha Cliath”
- Irish: “Cuan Baile Átha Cliath”
- Irish: “Cuan Bhaile Átha Cliath”
- Italian: “baia di Dublino”
- Italian: “Baia di Dublino”
- Japanese: “ダブリン湾”
- Lower Sorbian: “Dubliński zalew”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dublin Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dublinbukta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dublinbukten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cuan Bhaile Átha Cliath”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dublin Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dublinbukta”
- Norwegian: “Dublinbukten”
- Polish: “Zatoka Dublińska”
- Portuguese: “Baía de Dublin”
- Russian: “Дублинский залив”
- Slovak: “Dublin Bay”
- Slovak: “Dublinský záliv”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Dublin”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Dublín”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Dublín”
- Swedish: “Dublin Bay (vik i Irland)”
- Swedish: “Dublinviken”
- Ukrainian: “Дублін”
- Ukrainian: “Дублінська затока”
- Upper Sorbian: “Dublin Bay”
- Upper Sorbian: “Dublinski zaliw”
- Urdu: “خلیج ڈبلن”
- Western Frisian: “Baai fan Dublin”
- Western Panjabi: “خلیج ڈبلن”
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