Knocklyon
Knocklyon is a suburb of the city of Dublin, located in South Dublin, Ireland. Unlike many Dublin suburbs, Knocklyon was not developed around a village; rather it largely consists of modern housing, with a number of old cottages and farmhouses along Knocklyon Road attesting to the area's rural past.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include National Basketball Arena and Rathfarnham Castle.
National Basketball Arena
Stadium
Photo: LeinsterLion, Public domain.
National Basketball Arena, also known as Tallaght Arena, is an indoor sporting arena located in Tymon Park, Tallaght, South Dublin, adjacent to the M50 motorway.
Rathfarnham Castle
Photo: AndrewH, Public domain.
Rathfarnham Castle is a 16th-century fortified house in Rathfarnham, South Dublin, Ireland. Originally a semi-fortified and battlemented structure it underwent extensive alterations in the 18th century. Rathfarnham Castle is situated 3 km northeast of Knocklyon.
Tallaght Stadium
Stadium
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tallaght Stadium is an association football stadium in Ireland based in Tallaght, South Dublin. The club Shamrock Rovers originally announced details of the stadium in July, 1996. Tallaght Stadium is situated 3½ km west of Knocklyon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballyroan and Ballyboden.
Ballyroan
Suburb
Photo: O’Dea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ballyroan is a suburban area within Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland. It lies at the foot of the Dublin mountains, alongside Ballyboden, Butterfield, Knocklyon, Old Orchard, and Scholarstown.
Ballyboden
Village
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Ballyboden is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham, County Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon.
Firhouse
Suburb
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Firhouse is an outer suburb of Dublin, in the county of South Dublin, in the south of the traditional County Dublin in Ireland. It developed from a rural village by the River Dodder, with a second settlement, Upper Fir-house, nearby.
Knocklyon
- Type: Suburb with 14,600 residents
- Description: Dublin
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: South Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.28388° or 53° 17′ 2″ northLongitude
-6.31819° or 6° 19′ 6″ westPopulation
14,600Elevation
87 metres (285 feet)Open location code
9C5M7MMJ+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 683276999OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
7838921Wikidata ID
Q3776377
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Knocklyon” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Knocklyon”
- Cebuano: “Knocklyon”
- Dutch: “Knocklyon”
- Irish: “Cnoc Laighean”
- Irish: “Cnoc Liamhna”
- Irish: “Cnoc Lín”
- Russian: “Ноклайн”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cnoc Lín”
- Swedish: “Knocklyon”
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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 “Knocklyon”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.