Merrion Gates

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The area called Merrion Gates, in Dublin, is roughly where the northbound Dublin DART line goes inland before the station at Sydney Parade, which lies to the north. Booterstown DART station is the nearest to the south. The lands of the School for the Visually Impaired are here. There were gates on the road here once, separating Dublin from the coastal territory to the south.

The level crossing just before Sydney Parade DART station (travelling northbound) is often a frustration for train passengers with large trucks regularly crashing in to the gates causing delays along the Dart line, north and south.

Nowadays, it is the border between Dublin City and the borough of Dun Laoghaire that crosses the Rock Road at Booterstown Marsh or Bird Sanctuary.

There is access on foot to Sandymount Strand just to the east of the railway crossing.

Currently, there is no operational station at the Merrion Gates, in the 19th century there was one on the then Dublin-Kingstown line. It is believed that with the current large mixed-use development under way on the former lands of the nuns at Merrion Gates, this station will be re-opened.