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About Dalkey

Dalkey, Deilginis in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 13 km south-east of Dublin. It stands on the R119, R829 and R831. The map gives it 4,412 buildings and 169 named streets, with 155 places named on them in 78 kinds, and 447 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 29th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
13 km south-east of Dublin
Position
53.2783° N, 6.1074° W
Roads
R119, R829, R831, L1039-1, L1044-1 and L3027
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
4,412 buildings, 169 streets, 155 named places in 78 kinds
12 07 in Dalkey (27302306312)
12 07 in Dalkey (27302306312)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Archbolds Castle Dalkey
Archbolds Castle Dalkey·DDoghaus, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Dalkey in order

14 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1583 to 2010. That is not a history of Dalkey, 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.

15832010Rathfarnham CastleThe Convention Centre Dublin
The sixteenth 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 447 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R119, R829, R831, L1039-1, L1044-1 and L3027 running through Dalkey. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 11 lines call at 56 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

8 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Dalkey?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 13 km south-east of Dublin and 13 km from Dublin, on the R119, R829 and R831.
How big is Dalkey?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 4,412 buildings, 169 named streets and 155 named places, which by building count makes it the 29th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Dalkey?
447 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Archbold's Castle, St. Begnet’s Church and Dalkey Heritage Centre.
How do you get to Dalkey?
11 bus and train lines call at 56 stops here in the published timetable, run by Aircoach, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland. 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.
4,412
buildings on the model
169
named streets
155
named places
78
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. 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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