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Collins Barracks

Collins Barracks is a former military barracks in the Arbour Hill area of , Ireland. The buildings now house the .
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Photo: Fskrid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: former military barracks in Dublin, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Collins Barracks, Dublin”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dublin Heuston railway station and National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History.

Railway station
Photo: Poxyshamrock, Public domain.
Heuston Station, also known as Dublin Heuston, is one of Dublin's largest railway stations and links the capital with the south, southwest and west of Ireland. is situated 350 metres southwest of Collins Barracks.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a branch of the located at the former Collins Barracks in the Arbour Hill area of , . is situated 270 metres east of Collins Barracks.

Bridge
Photo: YvonneM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seán Heuston Bridge is a cast iron bridge spanning the beside in , . It was previously named King's Bridge and Sarsfield Bridge - and the bridge and adjacent train station are still commonly referred to by older Dubliners as "Kings Bridge" and "Kings Bridge Station" respectively. is situated 220 metres southwest of Collins Barracks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxmantown and Stoneybatter.

Suburb
was a suburb on the opposite bank of the from , in what is now the city's Northside. It was founded in the 12th century by Hiberno-Norse Dubliners or "Ostmen" who either migrated voluntarily or were expelled from inside of the city walls of Dublin after the Anglo-Norman invasion and the 1171 beheading of Hasculf, the last Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin by the invading army.

Suburb
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, is a neighbourhood of , , on the Northside of the city between the , the North Circular Road, , and .

Quarter
Photo: Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an area on the Northside of , . Its focal point is a public square, formerly an open market and common, now officially called Plaza, but known locally as Square or Market.

Collins Barracks

Latitude
53.34897° or 53° 20′ 56″ north
Longitude
-6.28981° or 6° 17′ 23″ west
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
9C5M8PX6+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 310369904
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
9295701
Wiki­data ID
Q5147347
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Collins Barracks” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Collins Barracks (Dublin)”
  • Basque: “Collins Barracks”
  • Chinese: “科林斯軍營”
  • Dutch: “Collins Barracks”
  • French: “Collins Barracks”
  • German: “Collins Barracks”
  • Irish: “Dún Uí Choileáin”
  • Japanese: “コリンズ兵舎 (ダブリン)”
  • Russian: “Казармы Коллинза”
  • Spanish: “Collins Barracks”

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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 “Collins Barracks”. Photo: Fskrid, CC BY-SA 4.0.