Walkinstown

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Walkinstown Baile Bhailcín
Suburb
Walkinstown roundabout
Walkinstown Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°19′17″N 6°20′02″W / 53.3215°N 6.3340°W / 53.3215; -6.3340
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	Dublin
Council	Dublin City Council
Dáil Éireann	Dublin South-Central
European Parliament	Dublin
Population  (2022)[1]
• Electoral division	7,442
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Walkinstown (Irish: Baile Bhailcín) is a suburb of Dublin in Ireland, six kilometres southwest of the city centre. It is surrounded by Drimnagh to the north, Crumlin to the east, Greenhills to the south, and Ballymount, Bluebell, and Clondalkin to the west. Its postal code is Dublin 12.

It consists mainly of privately owned housing, with some social housing remaining in the Dublin City Council area between the Walkinstown and Long Mile Roads and Ballymount Lower. It was built as an estate of starter homes after World War II.

Walkinstown has a library, residents' association, sports ground, community centre, schools, pubs, church, and local shops. Light industry, warehousing, car dealerships, and commercial outlet stores are concentrated along the Long Mile Road in the western sector of the suburb. The national census of 2022 recorded a population of 7,422 people for all electoral divisions labelled as Walkinstown.^[1]