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About Shankill

Shankill, Seanchill in Irish, is a village in County Dublin, 16 km south-east of Dublin. It stands on the M11, M50 and N11. The map gives it 6,078 buildings and 175 named streets, with 123 places named on them in 74 kinds, and 320 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Where
16 km south-east of Dublin
Position
53.2302° N, 6.1242° W
Roads
M11, M50, N11, R116, R118, R119, R837 and L1067
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
6,078 buildings, 175 streets, 123 named places in 74 kinds
Shankill, County Dublin, near to Shankill and Loughlinstown, Dublin, Ireland. Village Main Street
Shankill, County Dublin, near to Shankill and Loughlinstown, Dublin, Ireland. Village Main Street·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The M11 in Shankhill, County Dublin, near to Shankill, Loughlinstown and Ballycorus, Dublin, Ireland. The M11 joins the M50.
The M11 in Shankhill, County Dublin, near to Shankill, Loughlinstown and Ballycorus, Dublin, Ireland. The M11 joins the M50.·sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Shankill in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1840 to 1979. That is not a history of Shankill, 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.

18401979Ayesha CastlePearse Museum
The nineteenth century
The twentieth 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 320 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M11, M50, N11, R116, R118, R119, R837 and L1067 running through Shankill. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 18 lines call at 43 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhuire, St Anne's National School, Rathmichael National School and Saint Columbanus National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Shankill?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 16 km south-east of Dublin and 16 km from Dublin, on the M11, M50 and N11.
How big is Shankill?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 6,078 buildings, 175 named streets and 123 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Shankill?
320 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Dublin Mountains Way Trailhead Sign, Shanganagh Park and Shanganagh Park.
How do you get to Shankill?
18 bus and train lines call at 43 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann 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.
6,078
buildings on the model
175
named streets
123
named places
74
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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