The Cross of the Rock

The Cross of the Rock is a memorial in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster. The Cross of the Rock is situated nearby to the health club YogaVeda Living, as well as near the art gallery Millrace Gallery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Blackrock and Blackrock Further Education Institute.

Blackrock

Railway station

Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.

Blackrock railway station serves Blackrock in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It opened to the public on 17 December 1834 and is one of the three original stations on the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the oldest public passenger railway in Ireland. Blackrock is situated 210 metres northwest of The Cross of the Rock.

Blackrock Further Education Institute

College

Blackrock Further Education Institute is a college of further education in Dublin which was established in 1982. In 2014 it moved to the refurbished Blackrock Town Hall, Library and Technical Institute complex.

St. John the Baptist, Blackrock

Church

Photo: DubhEire, CC0.

St. John the Baptist, Blackrock is a Roman Catholic church in the parish of Blackrock, Ireland. The church is still in use and named after the Saint John the Baptist. It is located on Temple Road, Blackrock, County Dublin. St. John the Baptist, Blackrock is situated 180 metres southeast of The Cross of the Rock.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blackrock and Booterstown.

Blackrock

Town

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Blackrock is an affluent suburb of Dublin, Ireland, 3 km northwest of Dún Laoghaire. It is named after the local geological rock formation to be found in the area of Blackrock Park.

Booterstown

Photo: Beta, Public domain.

Booterstown is a coastal suburban town near Dublin. The Bellfield campus of University College Dublin, a major research university, is about 2 km west of Booterstown. The area is home to Booterstown marsh, a bird sanctuary.

Stillorgan

Suburb

Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.

Stillorgan, formerly a village in its own right, is now a suburb of Dublin in Ireland. Stillorgan is located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, and contains many housing estates, shops and other facilities, with the old village centre still present.

The Cross of the Rock

Type: Memorial
Wheelchair access: yes
Category: historic site
Location: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.30123° or 53° 18′ 4″ north

Longitude

-6.17709° or 6° 10′ 38″ west

Open location code

9C5M8R2F+F5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3733496228

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

OpenStreetMap attribute

wheelchair=yes

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