Dalkey
Sign in to saveDalkey ( ; ) is a suburban town in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown county southeast of Dublin, Ireland. It was founded as a Viking settlement and became a port in the Middle Ages. According to chronicler John Clyn (c.1286–c.1349), it was one of the ports through which the plague entered Ireland in the mid-14th century. Dalkey lies within a townland and civil parish of the same name, in the barony of Rathdown.
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Place details
- Locality
- Killiney
- Region
- Leinster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 6,622
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Suburb (village core)
- Settlement.name
- Dalkey
- Settlement.image_skyline
- DalkeyWMurphy.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clockwise from top: Castle Street looking towards Convent Road; a home near Vico Road; Finnegan's pub
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Dublin#Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Irish Grid Reference
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- County Dublin
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Local government area
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 26
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- Dublin
- Elevation
- 26
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Castle St. Dalkey.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dalkey
- topic's main category
- Category:Dalkey
- historic county
- County Dublin
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- fax server
- native label
- Deilginis
- P12749
- Heidelberg University
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Svenska
Dalkey (iriska: Deilginis) är ett samhälle i den södra delen av grevskapet Dublin. Dalkey grundades av en vikingabosättning och blev en viktig plats under medeltiden. Dalkey har fått sitt namn av Dalkey Island som ligger strax utanför. Namnet kommer ifrån det iriska Deilginis. Denna Irland-relaterade geografiartikel saknar väsentlig information. Du kan hjälpa till genom att lägga till den.
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