Farmleigh House

If you visit around Christmas time, Farmleigh House is beautifully decorated in traditional style, but it's a pleasure all year round nonetheless with elegant staterooms, a magnificent galleried Jacobean wood panelled library and Victorian conservatory, complete with potted palms and exotic greenery. Outside there are restored and very well maintained formal gardens including a Dutch sunken garden which has three descending terraces to an oval pool with a carrara marble fountain as its centrepiece.

There are regular free events for children including storytelling and puppet shows at Christmas. And for adults Free ticketed musical events, artisan food markets, gallery exhibitions etc. Or if you fancy letting someone else do the cooking a contemporary restaurant in the Boathouse on the lake. Please check website below for events calendar and opening times.

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10 other things to do and see in the area are....

1 Aras An Uachtaran a limited amount of tickets are allocated each saturday at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre for guided tours of the President of Ireland's home.

2 Phoenix Park Visitor Centre tells you all about the park which is the largest enclosed park (1752 acres) in Europe, there is also a cafe, toilet facilities and parking.

3 Victorian Kitchen Garden adjacent to the visitor centre, it is relatively new and proving to be very popular with the renewed interest in vegetable growing. You can meet and greet the gardeners on the 2nd saturday of every month.

4 Dublin Zoo is the oldest in Europe established in 1831, which is constantly being revamped to meet modern standards and practices in animal management and welfare.

5 The Furry Glen where some 450 deer roam, also the Wellington Monument and the Popes Cross all very familiar landmarks to Dubliners.

6 Victorian Tearooms (beside the Zoo) overlooking the bandstand (free concerts in the summer) in 'The Hollow’ with a playground so you can have a nice pot of tea in peace!

7 The People’s Garden a park within the park and a homage to the Victorian style of planting with lots of formal bedding arrangements, old fashioned but charming.

8 Polo and Cricket (we are big into cricket with 'that' victory over England) can be watched during the summer months.

9 Hire Bicycles at the Park Gates and follow any of the 15kms of safe cycle ways / family / nature trails within the Park.

10 The Garden of the Remembrance outside the Park, just across the River Liffey dedicated to our war heroes, Queen Elizabeth II visited last May.

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