Grand Canal Dock

Grand Canal Dock is an urban area on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland. It is located on the border of eastern Dublin 2 and the westernmost part of Ringsend in Dublin 4, surrounding the Grand Canal Docks, an enclosed harbour where the Grand Canal meets the River Liffey.

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Type: Bike rental
Description: docklands area east of Dublin city center, Ireland
Also known as: “Grand Central Dock”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and Aviva Stadium.

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

Theater building

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The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre is a performing arts venue, located in the Docklands of Dublin, Ireland. It is Ireland's largest fixed-seat theatre. It was designed by Daniel Libeskind for the DDDA, built by Joe O'Reilly, and opened by Harry Crosbie on 18 March 2010.

Aviva Stadium

Stadium

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Aviva Stadium, also known as the Dublin Arena, is a sports stadium located in Dublin, Ireland. It has a capacity of 51,711. It is built on the site of the former Lansdowne Road Stadium, which was demolished in 2007, and replaced it as home to its chief tenants: the Ireland national rugby union team and the Republic of Ireland football team.

Samuel Beckett Bridge

Bridge

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Samuel Beckett Bridge is a cable-stayed swingbridge in Dublin, Ireland that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south side of the River Liffey to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Wall and Ringsend.

North Wall

Suburb

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North Wall is an area east of the inner north side of Dublin, along the River Liffey where it forms one of the Dublin quays. The name refers to the North Bull Wall, which was constructed to form Dublin Port, extend the Liffey estuary and reclaim land at various stages from the early 1700s until its final completion around 1825.

Ringsend

Suburb

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Ringsend is a southside inner suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is located on the south bank of the River Liffey and east of the River Dodder, about two kilometres east of the city centre.

International Financial Services Centre

Quarter

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The International Financial Services Centre is an area of central Dublin and part of the CBD established in the 1980s as an urban regeneration area and special economic zone on the derelict state-owned former port authority lands of the reclaimed North Wall and George's Dock areas of the Dublin Docklands.