Phoenix Park The Phoenix Park is the largest enclosed public park in any capital city in Europe, at more than hectares in area. The Phoenix Park is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round. Average Length of Visit: 3 — 4 hours. Contact Dublin 8 D08 Y 01 superintendent. Restrictions Appropriate footwear. Join our mailing list Keep up to date on our news, events, activities and publications. He lived there with his family until his death in From then until it was the home of Viceroy, the representative of the Crown in Ireland.
He extended the four-roomed cottage that came with his job into this impressive Georgian mansion. Quite an extension!
Deerfield was leased to the US Government in on a year lease and is considered one of the best diplomatic residences of any posting. Ashtown Castle is a medieval tower house located beside the Phoenix Park visitor centre. There has been a castle on this site since the early s, but it has been altered and added to so often over the centuries that little if any of the original castle remains.
For many years it was little more than a ruin, until a restoration project began in and returned it to the way it was in the 18th century. It now houses a small museum. It is now owned by the state and used as a guesthouse for visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. The clocktower at Farmleigh is visible for miles around and is actually a water tower, with an 8,litre water tank to which water from the Liffey was pumped to provide the house. Tours of the house are available if it is not occupied and there is a year round calendar of events in the gardens, which are always worth attending.
Located on top of a steep mound, this is not as well known a building as those above and is in a terrible state of disrepair, but it is fascinating all the same. It was built in as a powder magazine, and an additional wing was added to the fort in to house troops.
In the mid s the Irish army used it for a time to store ammunition. As kids we climbed in several times and had a look around — with some trepidation as we half believed the rumours that it was a place favoured by devil worshipers.
The buildings there have some architectural interest and it really is a shame that it has not been restored and put to some use. There was talk of restoration in , but it came to nothing. In addition to the impressive houses above, there are more than 30 small lodges within the park, including a gatekeepers cottage at each gate.
An additional wing was added to the fort in for troops. The Phoenix Monument was erected by the fourth Earl of Chesterfield in The column was carved in Portland stone. It is in the shape of a Corinthian column with a Phoenix bird rising from the ashes at its pinnacle.
It is located in the centre of the Park and forms a focal point of a large roundabout on the beautiful tree-lined Chesterfield Avenue. West of St. The tumulus, which covered it, was opened in and skeletons, pottery and other relics, now in the National Museum were discovered. A similar sepulchre found in a gravel pit at Chapelizod was re-erected in the Zoological Gardens. For more on the prehistoric burial chamber in the Phoenix Park, click here for its entry on Megalithic Monuments of Ireland.
It was completed in and is the tallest obelisk in Europe at just over sixty-two metres tall. There are four bronze plaques cast from cannons captured at Waterloo; three of which have pictorial representations of his career while the fourth has an inscription at the base of the obelisk.
Read more on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. On this day, before travelling to Drogheda, Co. It stands feet high and is made of steel girders. After several attempts to erect the cross, it was eventually put in place on the 14th September, which is also the feast day of the Exaltation of the Cross. When Pope John Paul II died in Rome on the 2nd April , at the age of 84 years, a memorial service was held soon afterwards at this site. On the 8th April , it hosted many thousands of people who gathered in tribute, leaving flowers and other tokens of remembrance of him.
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