St. John the Baptist, Blackrock

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.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: church in County Dublin, Ireland
Also known as: “St John the Baptist Church”
Address: Temple Road

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Blackrock Further Education Institute and 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 100 metres northwest of St. John the Baptist, Blackrock.

Blackrock

Railway station

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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 390 metres northwest of St. John the Baptist, Blackrock.

Seapoint

Railway station

Seapoint railway station serves the locality of Seapoint, between Blackrock and Salthill in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. Seapoint is situated 660 metres east of St. John the Baptist, Blackrock.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blackrock and Booterstown.

Blackrock

Town

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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

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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

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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.

St. John the Baptist, Blackrock

Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.30014° or 53° 18′ 1″ north

Longitude

-6.17501° or 6° 10′ 30″ west

Wheelchair access

limited

Open location code

9C5M8R2F+3X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 129207214

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=roman_catholic

Wikidata ID

Q7588940

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