Monkstown Castle

Monkstown Castle is a castle in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster. Monkstown Castle is situated nearby to the cemetery Carrickbrennan Churchyard, as well as near Dunedin Park.

Photo: Lord Monkstown, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Carrickbrennan Churchyard and Salthill and Monkstown.

Carrickbrennan Churchyard

Cemetery

Photo: DubhEire, CC0.

Carrickbrennan Churchyard located on Carrickbrennan Road, Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland is a graveyard that can still be seen today, but is no longer in use. Carrickbrennan Churchyard is situated 110 metres north of Monkstown Castle.

Salthill and Monkstown

Railway station

Photo: National Library of Ireland on The Commons, No restrictions.

Salthill and Monkstown railway station serves the areas of Salthill and Monkstown in Dublin, Ireland. It is on the DART line between the stations of Seapoint and Dún Laoghaire. Salthill and Monkstown is situated 710 metres north of Monkstown Castle.

C.B.C. Monkstown

School

Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park is a private fee-paying Catholic school and Independent Junior school, founded in 1856 in Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland. C.B.C. Monkstown is situated 230 metres northeast of Monkstown Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dún Laoghaire and Sallynoggin.

Dún Laoghaire

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

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.

Sallynoggin

Suburb

Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sallynoggin is an area of Dublin in Ireland, in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin. The area consists mainly of former local authority housing built between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s by the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire.

Deansgrange

Suburb

Photo: Dmountain, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Deansgrange is a southern suburb of Dublin, centred on the crossroads of Clonkeen Road and Kill Lane. The area shares the name Clonkeen with the area further east, known as Kill of the Grange.

Monkstown Castle

Type: Tourist attraction
Categories: castle, tower house, building, tourism, ruins, and historic site
Location: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.289° or 53° 17′ 20″ north

Longitude

-6.15051° or 6° 9′ 2″ west

Operator

Office of Public Works

Open location code

9C5M7RQX+HQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 287091967

OpenStreetMap feature

building=ruins

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q30970315

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In Other Languages

From Irish to Ukrainian—“Monkstown Castle” goes by many names.

Irish: “Caisleán Bhaile na Manach”
Irish: “Caisleán Carraig Bhraonáin”
Ukrainian: “Замок Монкстоун”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dunedin Park and Monkstown Lawn Tennis Club Clubhouse.

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