Glasthule

Glasthule is a suburb in , . Glasthule is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sandycove and Glasthule and James Joyce Tower and Museum.

Railway station
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railway station serves the suburban areas of and Glasthule in , Ireland. The building is on a bridge as the rail line is in a cutting.

Museum
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The is a in , , 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.

Park
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The People's Park is a small public park in the suburban town of in , . Located near the East Pier of Dún Laoghaire Harbour and Glasthule, it opened in 1890, and major elements were redeveloped between 1985 and 1997, and again in 2012.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dún Laoghaire and Dalkey.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
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.

Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Suburb
Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an area of in , in , . The area consists mainly of former local authority housing built between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s by the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire.

Glasthule

Latitude
53.28717° or 53° 17′ 14″ north
Longitude
-6.12335° or 6° 7′ 24″ west
Open location code
9C5M7VPG+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10712618567
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
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In Other Languages

“Glasthule” goes by many names.
  • Irish: “Glas Tuathail”

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