White Sands Valve House

White Sands Valve House is an industrial building in Dublin, Leinster, which is located on Great South Wall. White Sands Valve House is situated near North Bank Lighthouse, as well as near the power station Poolbeg Flexgen.

Type: Industrial building
Also known as: “Rathmines and Pembroke Valve House”
Address: Great South Wall, Dublin

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Poolbeg Generating Station and Poolbeg Lighthouse.

Poolbeg Generating Station

Power station

Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.

Poolbeg Generating Station, colloquially known as the Poolbeg Stacks, is a power station owned and operated by the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland. Poolbeg Generating Station is situated 670 metres west of White Sands Valve House.

Poolbeg Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: IanKMantel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Poolbeg Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation at the mouth of the River Liffey, near Poolbeg in Dublin, Ireland. First established in 1767, it initially operated on candlepower but this was changed to oil in 1786. Poolbeg Lighthouse is situated 1½ km east of White Sands Valve House.

Irishtown Nature Park

Park

Photo: Gallags6, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Irishtown Nature Park is a small man-made park between Irishtown and Sandymount Strand in Dublin, Ireland. The park contains several kilometres of walking trails along the Poolbeg Peninsula. Irishtown Nature Park is situated 1½ km west of White Sands Valve House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clontarf and Sandymount.

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. Clontarf is situated 2½ km northwest of White Sands Valve House.

Sandymount

Suburb

Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sandymount is a coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. Sandymount is situated 3 km west of White Sands Valve House.

Dollymount

Locality

Photo: Peter Gerken, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dollymount, often known as "Dollyer" to Dubliners, is a coastal suburban area on the north coast of Dublin Bay, within Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, just east of Saint Anne's Park. Dollymount is situated 3 km north of White Sands Valve House.

White Sands Valve House

Categories: building, pumping station, and industry
Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.34083° or 53° 20′ 27″ north

Longitude

-6.17663° or 6° 10′ 36″ west

Levels

Roof shape

flat

Operator

Irish Water

Open location code

9C5M8RRF+88

OpenStreetMap ID

way 244344140

OpenStreetMap feature

building=industrial

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=pumping_station

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: North Bank Lighthouse and Poolbeg Flexgen.

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Places to explore: Mr Hobbs and Poolbeg Terminal.

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