Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill is a monument in Leinster, Ireland. Beacon Hill is situated nearby to Sorrento Park, as well as near the scenic viewpoint Dalkey Island Viewpoint & Telescope.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dalkey and Dalkey Island.

Dalkey

Railway station

Photo: Andrewrabbott, Public domain.

Dalkey railway station is a railway station that serves Dalkey in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. Dalkey is situated 570 metres northwest of Beacon Hill.

Dalkey Island is an island for which the nearby village of Dalkey is named. It is an uninhabited island located in the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, about 16 kilometres south of Dublin and 3 km south of Dún Laoghaire harbour.

Dalkey Hill

Peak

Photo: Irishpunktom, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dalkey Hill is the northernmost of the two hills which form the southern boundary of Dublin Bay. Dalkey Hill is 140 metres high and has views over the surrounding areas : Dublin to the northwest; the Irish Sea and the mountains of Wales to the east and southeast; and Bray Head and the Wicklow Mountains to the south.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dalkey and Ballybrack.

Dalkey

Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dalkey 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.

Ballybrack

Suburb

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Ballybrack is an outer residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is in the south of County Dublin, in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown council area. The suburb is 14 km south-east of Dublin city centre, and is south-west of Killiney, north-east of Loughlinstown, east of Cabinteely and north of Shankill. Ballybrack is situated 3 km southwest of Beacon Hill.

Sallynoggin

Suburb

Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sallynoggin is an area of Dublin in Ireland, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin. The area consists mainly of former local authority housing built between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s by the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire. Sallynoggin is situated 3 km west of Beacon Hill.

Beacon Hill

Type: Monument
Category: historic site
Location: Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.27288° or 53° 16′ 22″ north

Longitude

-6.09619° or 6° 5′ 46″ west

Open location code

9C5M7WF3+4G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 472081852

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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