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.
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  • Type: Town with 38,800 residents
  • Description: suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Dun Laoghaire”, “Dunleary”, “Kingstown, County Dublin”, and “Kingstown, Ireland”
  • Historically known as: “Kingstown”

Places of Interest

Highlights include James Joyce Tower and Museum and Dún Laoghaire Mallin.

Museum
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The is a in , , where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel Ulysses take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday.

Railway station
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railway station is a station in Dún Laoghaire, , Ireland.

Café
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Limited, trading as Coffee, is a coffeehouse chain with headquarters in , England, United Kingdom. It operates in the United Kingdom and 37 other countries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dalkey and Booterstown.

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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.

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

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

Dún Laoghaire

Latitude
53.2923° or 53° 17′ 32″ north
Longitude
-6.136° or 6° 8′ 10″ west
Population
38,800
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE DLG
Open location code
9C5M7VR7+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3563872395
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2964506
Wiki­data ID
Q745989
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Dún Laoghaire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Asturian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Basque: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Basque: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Belarusian: “Дун-Лэарэ”
  • Breton: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Breton: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Breton: “Dunleary”
  • Catalan: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Cebuano: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Chinese: “邓莱里”
  • Chinese: “鄧萊里”
  • Czech: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Danish: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Danish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Dutch: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Dutch: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Esperanto: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Estonian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Finnish: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Finnish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • French: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • French: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • French: “Dunleary”
  • Galician: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • German: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • German: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • German: “Dunleary”
  • Hebrew: “דן לירי”
  • Hungarian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Irish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Irish: “Dún Laoire”
  • Italian: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Italian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Italian: “Dunleary”
  • Japanese: “ダン・レアリー”
  • Korean: “던레러”
  • Korean: “둔레러”
  • Latin: “Dunum Loigarii”
  • Lithuanian: “Dan Leras”
  • Lithuanian: “Dan Lerė”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Norwegian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Persian: “دانلیری”
  • Persian: “دون لائوگهر”
  • Polish: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Polish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Russian: “Дан Лири”
  • Russian: “Дан-Лири”
  • Russian: “Дан-Лэре”
  • Russian: “Дан-Лэри”
  • Russian: “Данлири”
  • Russian: “Дун-Лэаре”
  • Scots: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Serbian: “Dan Liri”
  • Serbian: “Dunleary”
  • Serbian: “Дан Лири”
  • Silesian: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Slovak: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Spanish: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Spanish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Spanish: “Kingstown”
  • Swedish: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Swedish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Swedish: “Dunleary”
  • Thai: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Thai: “Dunleary”
  • Thai: “ดันลิรี”
  • Thai: “ดูนเลเร”
  • Turkish: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Turkish: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Ukrainian: “Дан Лері”
  • Urdu: “ڈون لاری”
  • Welsh: “Dun Laoghaire”
  • Welsh: “Dún Laoghaire”
  • Western Frisian: “Dún Laoghaire”
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