Ireland
Leinster
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Blackrock

Blackrock is an affluent suburb of , , 3 km northwest of . It is named after the local geological rock formation to be found in the area of Blackrock Park.
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  • Type: Town with 8,820 residents
  • Description: suburb of Dublin
  • Also known as: “Blackrock, Dublin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blackrock and Blackrock Further Education Institute.

Railway station
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railway station serves in , . It opened to the public on 17 December 1834 and is one of the three original stations on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the oldest public passenger railway in Ireland.

College
is a college of further education in which was established in 1982. In 2014 it moved to the refurbished Blackrock Town Hall, Library and Technical Institute complex.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic church in the parish of Blackrock, . The church is still in use and named after the Saint John the Baptist. It is located on Temple Road, Blackrock, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Booterstown and Stillorgan.

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is a coastal suburban town near . The Bellfield campus of University College Dublin, a major research university, is about 2 km west of . The area is home to marsh, a bird sanctuary.

Suburb
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, formerly a village in its own right, is now a suburban area of in . is located in , and contains many housing estates, shops and other facilities, with the old village centre still present.

Suburb
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is a townland and suburban area located about 4 km south east of Dublin City. The townland has an area of approximately 0.8 square kilometres. is situated along the Road between to the north and to the south. is situated 2½ km northwest of Blackrock.

Blackrock

Latitude
53.30186° or 53° 18′ 7″ north
Longitude
-6.17883° or 6° 10′ 44″ west
Population
8,820
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE BLA
Open location code
9C5M8R2C+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52255686
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2966131
Wiki­data ID
Q2448591
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Blackrock” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلاكروك”
  • Armenian: “Բլեքրոք”
  • Asturian: “Blackrock”
  • Basque: “Blackrock”
  • Belarusian: “Блэкрак”
  • Breton: “An Charraig Dhubh”
  • Cebuano: “Blackrock”
  • Chinese: “布莱克罗克”
  • Dutch: “Blackrock”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلاكروك”
  • Esperanto: “Blackrock”
  • Finnish: “Blackrock”
  • French: “Blackrock”
  • German: “Blackrock”
  • Hebrew: “בלקרוק”
  • Irish: “An Charraig Dhubh”
  • Irish: “Blackrock”
  • Irish: “Carraig Dhubh”
  • Irish: “Carraig Dubh”
  • Italian: “Blackrock”
  • Japanese: “ブラックロック”
  • Lithuanian: “Blakrokas”
  • Persian: “بلکراک”
  • Polish: “Blackrock”
  • Russian: “Ан-Харрать-Дув”
  • Russian: “Блэкрок”
  • Scots: “Blackrock”
  • Swedish: “Blackrock, Dublin”
  • Swedish: “Blackrock”
  • Welsh: “Blackrock”

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