debigc / Mapillary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Walkinstown
Sign in to saveWalkinstown () is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, six kilometres southwest of the city centre. It is surrounded by Drimnagh to the north, Crumlin to the east, Greenhills to the south, and Ballymount, Bluebell, and Clondalkin to the west. It lies within the postal district of Dublin 12.
Weather now
cached 1941h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- Dublin
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 6,819
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Dublin
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Walkinstown Roundabout - geograph.org.uk - 440919.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Walkinstown
- historic county
- County Dublin
- native label
- Baile Bhailcín
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Location and extent
- Amenities
- Local landmarks
- Administration
- Sport
- Transport
- People
- See also
- References
- External links
Walkinstown () is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, six kilometres southwest of the city centre. It is surrounded by Drimnagh to the north, Crumlin to the east, Greenhills to the south, and Ballymount, Bluebell, and Clondalkin to the west. It lies within the postal district of Dublin 12.
It consists mainly of privately owned housing, with some social housing remaining in the Dublin City Council area between the Walkinstown and Long Mile Roads and Ballymount Lower. It was built as an estate of starter homes after World War II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Walkinstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
On the map
2 mapped locations