Malahide / Kinsealy to St. Stephen's Green

coffeecup1980

Hi everyone.
My boyfriend and I have fallen in love with a cottage on chapel lane kinsealy or is it malahide?! Anyhow. It's five minutes drive into malahide village.

He works earlsfort terrace. So would need to commute. Where we are at the min he can walk. He has never commuted before.
Is it a massive hassle? We found out it's easier to go from portmarnock train station to maybe Pearce and then he would have a walk ahead of him. Maybe it's best to get to Connolly and a luas to Abby street to ease some walking?

We know it's roughly 28 minutes on the train and then the walk. He thinks it's a lot added onto his day as he works very long hours. Sometimes until 9pm some nights.

Malahide is such an amazing place and we are trying to weigh up if it's worth it. It will be him doing the commute.

Does anyone do this already that could advise us a bit?
The house is called kinsealy cottages.

Thank you so much
D

Losty Dublin

Dart to Pearse or Tara Street and the 15 minute walk is the best option. Luas to Abbey Street will save him zero time for an extra €15 a week and as long a walk.

LXFlyer

Pearse would be the better option (shorter walk).

If he timed it right he might connect with a 44 or 61 from outside Pearse Station to Earlsfort Terrace.

Similarly, returning both the 44 and 61 connect Earlsfort Terrace with Pearse Station, while the 11, 37, 46a and 145 connect Lower Leeson Street and Pearse Station northbound.

Being honest though, walking is probably the best option - maximum 15 minutes.

coffeecup1980

lxflyer wrote: »

Pearse would be the better option (shorter walk).

If he timed it right he might connect with a 44 or 61 from outside Pearse Station to Earlsfort Terrace.

Similarly, returning both the 44 and 61 connect Earlsfort Terrace with Pearse Station, while the 11, 37, 46a and 145 connect Lower Leeson Street and Pearse Station northbound.

Being honest though, walking is probably the best option - maximum 15 minutes.

Thank you. Would there be bus lanes? It all sounds good so far I think.

Losty Dublin

coffeecup1980 wrote: »

Thank you. Would there be bus lanes? It all sounds good so far I think.

Not enough to make much of a difference. Bus lane on the Green only going to Earlsford Terrace, one on Westland Row inbound and a short one on Clare Street and Merrion Row as well.

LXFlyer

coffeecup1980 wrote: »

Thank you. Would there be bus lanes? It all sounds good so far I think.

You're talking 5-10 minutes on the buses - bus lanes won't make any difference.


As I said above - the walk is only 1.3km - that's a maximum of 15 minutes - that's quite doable by anyone, and lots of people do it every day.


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ThunbergsAreGo

Dublin Bikes should help a bit with it

Alun

naughtb4 wrote: »

Dublin Bikes should help a bit with it

Hardly worth it for such a short distance I'd have thought.

ThunbergsAreGo

10 minute walk vs 5 minute cycle, not essential but every little helps

Also Chapel Lane (looking at the map, looks a bit outside Malahide). I would be more inclined to get the 42/43 bus and Dublin Bikes it. Getting into Malahide to get the train could easily add on 20 minutes to the journey. Unl;ess of course he is driving to the station in which case i think Portmarnock station is a better bet

As needless as it sounds, the best thing to do is try it. Pick a day and try get from the house to work. It seems like alot of effort but a house is a massive undertaking.

blackwhite

Get the train as far as Grand Canal Dock, and then Dublin Bike along the canal.

Segregated cycle lanes if he's not comfortable cycling alongside vehicular traffic