Red Cow Luas stop
Luas Red Line · An Bhó Dhearg
About Red Cow
Red Cow is the Red Line’s meeting point with the M50. The stop stands at the Red Cow interchange in west Dublin, where the motorway crosses the Naas Road, and it has a car park and cycle parking attached so that drivers can leave a vehicle at the edge of the city and take a tram in.
Its opening date is given here as about 2004, and the hedge is deliberate: the only record covers the Luas complex at the junction as a whole rather than the stop on its own, noting that it added traffic to an already busy interchange when it opened in 2004. East of here the line runs a long way without calling anywhere before Kylemore, and west of it the trams reach Kingswood and the Tallaght and Saggart branches.
First and last trams from Red Cow
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 Red Cow: Red Line towards Tallaght, about one tram every 3 minutes at the busiest times (314 departures on a weekday) and Red Line towards The Point, about one tram every 4 minutes at the busiest times (316 departures on a weekday).
Connections and interchange
Red Cow is served by the Luas Red 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 Red Cow
This is a motorway junction rather than a neighbourhood, and nothing is mapped within 400 m of the platforms. Within about a kilometre there is a Norman motte at roughly 440 m and Ballymount Park at about 700 m. Nearly everyone using the stop is changing from a car or a bicycle, or passing through on the way between Tallaght, Saggart and the city centre; there is nothing to walk to from the platforms themselves.
| Place | Straight-line distance from the stop |
|---|---|
| Norman Motte | 440 m |
| Ballymount Park | 700 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
Because no source dates the tram stop by itself. The record that exists covers the whole Luas complex at the Red Cow interchange and places its opening in 2004, so this site writes the stop’s date as about 2004 rather than claiming a precision the evidence does not support.
It is the junction in west Dublin where the M50 motorway meets the Naas Road. The Luas stop sits at that junction, which is why it is the Red Line’s park-and-cycle gateway for traffic arriving from the motorway rather than a stop serving a neighbourhood.