page_title: Castleknock
section_title: Location and access
hierarchical_section_title: Castleknock / Castleknock today / Location and access
caption_attribution_description: English: Castleknock Village, near to Palmerston, Blachardstown, Castleknock, Ashtown and Dunsink, Dublin, Ireland. Castleknock Village at the junction of Castleknock Road and College Road. The church is St Brigid�s Church of Ireland (Anglican). Aras an Uachtarain ( The presidents residence) lies just inside the Parish boundary in the Phoenix Park and St Brigid�s therefore has a President�s Pew.
context_page_description: Castleknock is an affluent suburb of Dublin, centred on a village in Fingal, Ireland. It is located 8 km west of the centre of Dublin.
  In addition to the suburb, the name "Castleknock" also refers to older units of land division: a townland, a civil parish and a barony.
context_section_description: Castleknock contains three townlands, Castleknock, Carpenterstown, and Diswellstown. The neighbourhood is located mostly between the Phoenix Park and the Royal Canal. The neighbourhood is bordered to the west by the large suburb of Blanchardstown, to the east by the Phoenix Park, to the north by Dunsink and to the south by the village of Chapelizod above the Liffey valley. The suburb is in the Dublin 15 postal area.
  The area can be accessed from Junction 6 on the M50 motorway, on either side of which it lies, from the R147 Navan Road, from Chesterfield Avenue and the Castleknock Gate of the Phoenix Park, and via Knockmaroon Hill in Chapelizod. Dublin Bus operate a number of services through Castleknock. These include Route 37 which runs from Blanchardstown Town Centre to Wilton Terrace, Baggot Street, and Route 38 from Burlington Road, in the southern part of Dublin city centre, towards Damastown and vice versa.
  Irish Rail operate Dublin Suburban Rail on the Western Suburban Railway Line or Maynooth Line from Dublin Connolly to  Maynooth. An earlier railway station was designed by John Skipton Mulvaney and completed in 1849 at Castleknock. Sadly, the landmark was demolished in the late 1980s to make way for the M50 motorway. A new modern Castleknock railway station was built close by and opened on 2 July 1990.
  The Royal Canal was completed in 1817 to transport freight and passengers from the River Liffey in the City of Dublin to Longford. Having fallen into disuse at the start of the 20th century the canal is now restored and mostly used for pleasure. The canal's 12th lock is located at Castleknock Marina.
  The Diswellstown Stream rises in two branches in the area.  One branch comes from Carpenterstown, where Bracken Park Drive now lies, and is culverted for its first stretch.  The other comes from south of Park Avenue in Castleknock village, and flows in the open along the western edge of the Castleknock College grounds. The branches come together near the area known as the Sand Holes or Sandpits in Diswellstown, and the stream flows directly south to join the Liffey.
caption: Castleknock Village at the junction of Castleknock Road and College Road
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