Maiden Rock
Maiden Rock is an islet in Leinster, Ireland. Maiden Rock is situated nearby to the locality Sorrento Point, as well as near Hawk Cliff.Places of Interest
Highlights include Dalkey and Dalkey Island.
Dalkey
Railway station
Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.
Dalkey railway station is a railway station that serves Dalkey in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.
Dalkey Island
Islet
Photo: Jpfahy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dalkey Island is an island for which the nearby village of Dalkey is named. It is an uninhabited island located in the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, about 16 kilometres south of Dublin and 3 km south of Dún Laoghaire harbour.
James Joyce Tower and Museum
Museum
Photo: YvonneM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel Ulysses take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dalkey and Dún Laoghaire.
Dalkey
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dalkey is a picturesque seaside village in the suburbs of Dublin. It has a Norman castle, several scenic walks, and the island just offshore was a pilgrimage site and slave market.
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.
Sallynoggin
Suburb
Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sallynoggin is an area of Dublin in Ireland, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin. The area consists mainly of former local authority housing built between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s by the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire. Sallynoggin is situated 3½ km west of Maiden Rock.
Maiden Rock
- Type: Islet
- Categories: rock, rock, locality, and landform
- Location: Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.27792° or 53° 16′ 41″ northLongitude
-6.09174° or 6° 5′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C5M7WH5+58OpenStreetMap ID
way 34679704OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rockOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Irish—“Maiden Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Maiden Rock”
- Irish: “Carraig na Maighdean”
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