North Bank Lighthouse

North Bank Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Dublin, Leinster. North Bank Lighthouse is situated near the power station Poolbeg Generating Station, as well as near Poolbeg Flexgen.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Poolbeg Generating Station and Poolbeg Lighthouse.

Poolbeg Generating Station

Power station

Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.

Poolbeg Generating Station, colloquially known as the Poolbeg Stacks, is a power station owned and operated by the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland. Poolbeg Generating Station is situated 1 km southwest of North Bank Lighthouse.

Poolbeg Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: IanKMantel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Poolbeg Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation at the mouth of the River Liffey, near Poolbeg in Dublin, Ireland. First established in 1767, it initially operated on candlepower but this was changed to oil in 1786. Poolbeg Lighthouse is situated 1½ km east of North Bank Lighthouse.

Irishtown Nature Park

Park

Photo: Gallags6, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Irishtown Nature Park is a small man-made park between Irishtown and Sandymount Strand in Dublin, Ireland. The park contains several kilometres of walking trails along the Poolbeg Peninsula. Irishtown Nature Park is situated 2 km southwest of North Bank Lighthouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clontarf and Dollymount.

Clontarf

Suburb

Photo: Warren Buckley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clontarf is an affluent coastal suburb on the Northside of Dublin in the city's Dublin 3 postal district. Historically, there were two centres of population, one on the coast towards the city, and the fishing village of Clontarf Sheds, further north on the coast at what is now Vernon Avenue.

Dollymount

Locality

Photo: Peter Gerken, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dollymount, often known as "Dollyer" to Dubliners, is a coastal suburban area on the north coast of Dublin Bay, within Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, just east of Saint Anne's Park. Dollymount is situated 2½ km north of North Bank Lighthouse.

Sandymount

Suburb

Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sandymount is a coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. Sandymount is situated 3 km southwest of North Bank Lighthouse.

North Bank Lighthouse

Type: Lighthouse
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.34486° or 53° 20′ 42″ north

Longitude

-6.17635° or 6° 10′ 35″ west

Open location code

9C5M8RVF+WF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1561083264

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Poolbeg Flexgen and Poolbeg BESS.

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