Places to visit near Loughshinny: Skerries Mills & more
With nothing inside Loughshinny’s urban area, the list has 3 places within 5 km of its edge. On the list: a museum, an attraction and a historic site, among others. Dublin Castle is worth a day, 25 km from the centre.
Around Loughshinny: where to begin
Behind Skerries Mills on the list are an attraction and a historic site.
Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.
The map view
Leave town to the north for most of the 3 nearby.
The dashed line is Loughshinny’s urban area; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · CSO 2022 outline
Kind by kind
It comes down to a museum, an attraction and a historic site.
Green: inside Loughshinny. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.
Each place in turn
All 3 on the list lie within 5 km of its edge.
Close and well known first. Churches, protected structures and monuments belong to the History page, not here.
Monuments and historic buildings in Loughshinny → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Loughshinny →
Big names nearby
Dublin Castle, 25 km away, is the best known of the 12.
Big drawMuseumNational Museum of Ireland25 km southwest · 783K visitors a year
CathedralSt Patrick's Cathedral26 km southwest
MuseumNational Library of Ireland25 km southwest
Historic houseLeinster House25 km southwest
Art galleryNational Gallery of Ireland25 km southwest
Big drawZooDublin Zoo25 km southwest · 1.3M visitors a year (2022)
CathedralChrist Church Cathedral26 km southwest
Garden · Office of Public WorksSaint Stephen's Green26 km southwest
Museum · Office of Public WorksChester Beatty26 km southwest
Museum · Office of Public WorksKilmainham Gaol27 km southwest
CastleMalahide Castle12 km southPlaces well known beyond Loughshinny (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Office of Public Works or National Parks and Wildlife Service property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.
Places to visit in Loughshinny: questions
What is there to see near Loughshinny?
No attraction is mapped inside Loughshinny itself. Within 5 km of it are Skerries Mills, St. Patrick's Footprint and Lusk Round Tower.
Does Loughshinny have a museum?
1 museum or gallery is in or within 5 km of Loughshinny: Skerries Mills.
Is there a Heritage Ireland (OPW) or national park property near Loughshinny?
None within 5 km. The nearest well-known one on our list is Dublin Castle (Office of Public Works), 25 km southwest.
What are the best-known days out near Loughshinny?
Within 40 km: Dublin Castle (25 km), National Museum of Ireland (25 km), St Patrick's Cathedral (26 km), National Library of Ireland (25 km).
How is this list made?
From Fáilte Ireland’s open data on attractions (museums, castles, historic houses, abbeys, gardens, national parks, landscapes, islands, zoos and visitor farms: restaurants, pubs, shops and tour operators are left out), OpenStreetMap (places open to visitors; a ruined castle on farmland needs a sign it can be visited) and Wikidata (what each place is, who looks after it, its Wikipedia articles), merged into one list and placed in the town’s CSO 2022 outline or within 5 km of its edge.
Places to visit: Fáilte Ireland open data (CC BY 4.0), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in each town’s CSO 2022 outline. Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (11)
- National Museum of Ireland: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net )., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Patrick's Cathedral: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Library of Ireland: YvonneM, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leinster House: Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery of Ireland: Copyright © 2006 Kaihsu Tai, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dublin Zoo: Harold Strong, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christ Church Cathedral: Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Saint Stephen's Green: Dronepicr (edited by King of Hearts ) Edit corrects CA and sharpens image, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chester Beatty: Aligatorek, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kilmainham Gaol: Nol Aders, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Malahide Castle: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).