New Bus Routes for Mount Merrion

Phase 6a: E-Spine
Launched on Sunday January 26th, 2025

The 46A, beloved of song (you know the one) and yore, is no more, along with the 63, 84, 145 and several other routes. In their place Transport For Ireland have introduced two new 24-hour services (called Spines) serving Mount Merrion – the E1 and E2.
Both routes run every ten minutes throughout the day and night, passing Stillorgan (bypass), Trees Road and St Thomas’ Church and crossing town through St Stephens Green and O’Connell St. Both serve UCD, Trinity and DCU.

The E1 runs from Ballywaltrim in Bray to Northwood in Santry.
The E2 runs from Dun Laoghaire to Ballymun (passing IKEA).

On the other side of the estate, the 11 bus route continues to run every half hour from Sandyford Industrial Estate. However, it now longer goes to Wadelai Park. Instead, it diverts at Parnell Square to Infirmary Road and The Phoenix Park (as the old 46A did). Wadelai Road can now be reached by transfering at Parnell Square to the new Number 19 route.

The 47 service is unaffected, continuing to serve St Vincent’s Hospital and Belarmine.

 

Full information can be found here on the Transport For Ireland website.

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Mount Merrion is a suburban estate in South County Dublin developed on lands once the seat of the Viscounts Fitwilliam. Centred around the Deerpark, a public park first landscaped by the 5th Viscount, and the remains of the house he built there in 1711, Mount Merrion today is generally considered to be bounded to the North by The UCD campus at Belfield, to the East by the N11 and Booterstown and Blackrock, to the South by Stillorgan and Kilmacud, and to the West by Goatstown and Clonskeagh.  *Lower Kilmacud Road residents on the right-hand-side from Stillorgan Shopping Centre, odd numbers 103 to 167, including 111a, are within Mount Merrion demense.  The Mount Merrion Residents Association, founded in 1935, is the oldest residents’ association in continuous existence in Ireland. It represents the following roads:
  • Callary Road
  • Cedarmount Road
  • Cherrygarth
  • Chestnut Road
  • Clonmore Road
  • The Close
  • Cypress Road
  • Deerpark Road
  • Foster Avenue
  • The Fosters
  • Glenabbey Road
  • Greenfield Road
  • Greygates
  • Iris Grove
  • Lower Kilmacud Road (partial)
  • Mather Road North
  • Mather Road South
  • Mount Anville Road
  • North Avenue
  • Owenstown Park
  • Redesdale Crescent
  • Redesdale Road
  • The Rise
  • Roebuck Avenue
  • St Thomas Road
  • St Thomas Mead
  • South Avenue
  • Sycamore Road
  • Sycamore Cresent
  • East Avenue (Sycamore)
  • Thornhill Road
  • Trees Avenue
  • Trees Road Lower
  • Trees Road Upper
  • Wilson Crescent
  • Wilson Road
At its peak, Mount Merrion rises to 82m (269ft) above sea level.