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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
Islet
Photo: Jpfahy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 km 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 Sallynoggin.
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.
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.
Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire 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.
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″ northLongitude
-6.09619° or 6° 5′ 46″ westOpen location code
9C5M7WF3+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 472081852OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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