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About Blackrock

Blackrock, An Charraig Dhubh in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 8 km south-east of Dublin, with 28,557 people at the 2002 census. It stands on the N11, N31 and R113. The map gives it 14,446 buildings and 375 named streets, with 721 places named on them in 171 kinds, and 895 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
28,557 at the 2002 census
Where
8 km south-east of Dublin
Position
53.3019° N, 6.1788° W, 80 m above sea level
Roads
N11, N31, R113, R118, R119, R131, R138 and R824
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
14,446 buildings, 375 streets, 721 named places in 171 kinds
Blackrock Baths Are To Be Demolished (Ireland) (7922671550)
Blackrock Baths Are To Be Demolished (Ireland) (7922671550)·William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Blackrock Market, Dublin, Ireland
Blackrock Market, Dublin, Ireland·Dwxn, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Blackrock in order

65 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 800s to 2019. That is not a history of Blackrock, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 800s2019Book of KellsMuseum of Literature Ireland
The eighth century
  • the 800sBook of KellsAttractions · 7.0 km from the centre · Memory of the World International Register
The thirteenth century
The sixteenth century
The seventeenth century
The eighteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Dublin since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

1,458,154372,77318412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 895 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N11, N31, R113, R118, R119, R131, R138 and R824 running through Blackrock. 53 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 65 lines call at 389 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

22 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Blackrock?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 8 km south-east of Dublin and 8 km from Dublin, on the N11, N31 and R113.
How big is Blackrock?
28,557 people at the 2002 census. On the map it is 14,446 buildings and 375 named streets.
What is there to see in Blackrock?
895 things the map records in and around it, the closest being James Joyce Pub Award, The Cross of the Rock and Blackrock Baths (closed).
How do you get to Blackrock?
65 bus and train lines call at 389 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
14,446
buildings on the model
375
named streets
721
named places
171
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2448591). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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