St John the Baptist

St John the Baptist is a ruins in Dublin, Leinster. St John the Baptist is situated nearby to the cemetery Castle Avenue Graveyard, as well as near the hotel Clontarf Castle.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Clontarf Castle and Castle Avenue cricket ground.

Clontarf Castle

Hotel

Photo: JP, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clontarf Castle is a much-modernised castle, dating to 1837, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, an area famous as a key location of the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.

Castle Avenue Cricket Ground, also known as Clontarf Cricket Club Ground, is a cricket facility in the suburb of Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. It is the primary of the two grounds of Clontarf Cricket Club, the secondary being at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, and the lands on which it lies are also home to two rugby union pitches belonging to Clontarf FC. Castle Avenue cricket ground is situated 250 metres north of St John the Baptist.

Killester railway station

Railway station

Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Killester railway station serves the suburbs of Killester and Donnycarney, as well as parts of Artane, in Dublin. Killester railway station is situated 1 km north of St John the Baptist.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Killester and Clontarf.

Killester

Suburb

Photo: Peter Gerken, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Killester is a small residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland on the Northside of the city in the Dublin 3 and Dublin 5 postal districts. It was the site of a church and convent or monastery centuries ago, and later a small village developed.

Clontarf

Suburb

Photo: Warren Buckley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clontarf is an affluent coastal suburb on the Northside of Dublin in the city's Dublin 3 postal district. Historically, there were two centres of population, one on the coast towards the city, and the fishing village of Clontarf Sheds, further north on the coast at what is now Vernon Avenue.

Donnycarney

Suburb

Photo: John Mianuyeu, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Donnycarney is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council. It is mostly residential, around 5 kilometres from the centre of Dublin. Dublin GAA's home stadium, Parnell Park, is located here.

St John the Baptist

Type: Ruins
Categories: building and historic site
Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.36526° or 53° 21′ 55″ north

Longitude

-6.20577° or 6° 12′ 21″ west

Open location code

9C5M9Q8V+4M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 233515733

OpenStreetMap feature

building=ruins

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

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