Blackrock
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.Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Blackrock, Ireland
- Also known as: “Blackrock railway station”
- Address: Blackrock
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Blackrock Further Education Institute and St. John the Baptist, Blackrock.
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. Blackrock Further Education Institute is situated 280 metres southeast of Blackrock.
St. John the Baptist, Blackrock
Church
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 390 metres southeast of Blackrock.
Seapoint
Railway station
Seapoint railway station serves the locality of Seapoint, between Blackrock and Salthill in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. Seapoint is situated 1 km southeast of Blackrock.
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.
Blackrock
- Categories: station located on surface, station, and transportation
- Location: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.30284° or 53° 18′ 10″ northLongitude
-6.1787° or 6° 10′ 43″ westOperator
Irish RailNetwork
Dublin Commuter;DARTOpen location code
9C5M8R3C+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 7176421924OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q3969060
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Blackrock” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Station Blackrock”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة بلاكروك”
- French: “An Charraig Dhubh”
- French: “Blackrock”
- Irish: “An Charraig Dhubh”
- Irish: “Stáisiún na Carraige Duibhe”
- Italian: “Blackrock railway station”
- Italian: “stazione di Blackrock”
- Italian: “Stazione di Blackrock”
- Polish: “Blackrock”
- Russian: “Блэкрок (станция)”
- Russian: “Блэкрок”
- Urdu: “بلیک راک ریلوے اسٹیشن”
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