Kilmacud Luas stop
Luas Green Line · Cill Mochuda
About Kilmacud
Kilmacud — Cill Mochuda — came with the first phase of the Green Line in 2004 and serves the suburb of the same name. It stands at the junction of Benildus Avenue and Drummartin Link Road, in a broad cutting between the avenue and the grounds of St Benildus College, which means both platforms sit below the level of everything around them.
There are entrances on each side. From the northbound platform a staircase and lift rise to Benildus Avenue, then a short bridge crosses the edge of the cutting to a gap in the retaining wall; from the southbound platform the same arrangement leads to a footpath through the college grounds that comes out eventually on Drummartin Link Road. A separate footbridge crosses the tracks higher up for people who want to get from one side to the other without going near the platforms at all. At the road junction the stop is identified by a solar-powered totem of the same design as the one at Carrickmines. Stillorgan is the next call south.
First and last trams from Kilmacud
| Line and direction | Mon–Thu first – last | Friday first – last | Saturday first – last | Sunday first – last | Bank holiday first – last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Line towards Brides Glen | 06:12 – 00:59 | 06:12 – 00:59 | 06:48 – 00:59 | 07:42 – 23:59 | 07:42 – 23:59 |
| Green Line towards Broombridge | 05:33 – 00:21 | 05:33 – 00:21 | 06:33 – 00:21 | 07:03 – 23:21 | 07:03 – 23:21 |
Departures from this stop in the NTA’s published timetable for a representative week. A day type with no departures is shown as no service rather than filled in from another day.
From Kilmacud: Green Line towards Brides Glen, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (366 departures on a weekday) and Green Line towards Broombridge, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (360 departures on a weekday).
Next stops from Kilmacud
Running times to the adjoining stops, from the operators’ own timetables.
| Line | Next stop | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Green Line | Balally | 1.9 min |
| Green Line | Stillorgan | 1.9 min |
Connections and interchange
Kilmacud is served by the Luas Green Line only. There is no change to another line here and no walking transfer to another station nearby.
Facilities
luas.ie publishes no facility list for individual Luas stops, so the only stop-level facts here are the Park & Ride and Cycle & Ride flags from the operator’s own stop data. Absence of a row is not evidence that something is missing.
What is near Kilmacud
Nothing is recorded within 400 m of the platforms, which fits a stop set in a cutting between an avenue and a school’s playing fields. Within about a kilometre there is rather more: Imaginosity and the Beacon Hospital both around 780 m, Ballawley Park at roughly 850 m and the Irish Management Institute at about 930 m. For passengers, though, the immediate catchment is the housing on Benildus Avenue and the college on the other side of the tracks.
| Place | Straight-line distance from the stop |
|---|---|
| Beacon Hospital | 780 m |
| Irish Management Institute | 930 m |
| Imaginosity | 780 m |
| Ballawley Park | 850 m |
Named places from OpenStreetMap within 1 km of the stop. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route; nothing is mapped within 400 m of this one, so the list is widened to 1 km.
Frequently asked questions
It carries a public route across the cutting. The tracks separate Benildus Avenue from the college grounds, so the bridge lets people cross from one side to the other without using the stop. Passengers use the staircases and lifts at each end of the platforms instead.
A solar-powered marker that identifies the stop from street level, needed because the platforms are down in the cutting and invisible from the junction. The same design is used at Carrickmines, further out on the line.