Casino Marino

PricingFree with English Heritage membershipEH memberFree entryNon-member€5

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Free entry for English Heritage members

This place is cared for by the Office of Public Works, which runs Ireland's national heritage sites as Heritage Ireland. English Heritage members are entitled to free entry to all OPW sites from the first year of membership. Show your current membership card at admissions.

Bring the card itself: joint and family memberships admit the named holders only.
Guided sites may run tours at set times; unguided sites are free to everyone.
Prices here are in euro.

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Entry

Non-member prices

Adult€5.00

Child or student€3.00

Senior or group€4.00

Family€13.00

Pricing details

Standard price, sold at the door only; no online booking. OPW's general rule gives free admission to children under 12 and to visitors with disabilities and their carers. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

OPW's Child/Student rate; no age band given on the page, and OPW says children under 12 visit free. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

OPW's Group/Senior rate; no age given on the page. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

OPW's family ticket; the page does not define the family. Free for English Heritage members showing a valid card, from the first year of membership (every OPW site; the named members on the card). Heritage Card holders free.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

OPW lists a car park and bicycle parking among the Casino's facilities but names no location and publishes no charge; a surface car park lies about 95 m east of the building towards Cherrymount Crescent. The Casino is just off the Malahide Road, three miles north of the city centre, with buses along the Malahide Road and Clontarf Road DART station about 0.9 km to the south.

Driving pin: OPW's own pin on the Casino at Cherrymount Crescent, since no official source locates the car park.

About

Casino Marino is Ireland's miniature architectural masterpiece, a garden temple three miles north of the centre of Dublin that OPW calls one of the finest neo-classical buildings in Europe. Sir William Chambers designed it in 1759 as a pleasure house for James Caulfeild, first Earl of Charlemont, beside his residence in what was then open countryside with a view over Dublin Bay. The word casino means little house, and from outside it looks like a single room ringed by Doric columns, with stone lions guarding the steps and urns and statues along the roofline. Inside it hides sixteen rooms over three floors, with marquetry floors, ornate plasterwork and a Zodiac Room whose domed ceiling carries the signs of the sky. Rainwater runs down inside the columns, the floors were heated and tunnels lie beneath. Visits are by guided tour only, at four fixed times from Thursday to Monday, and reviewers praise the guides and allow about an hour.

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Casino Marino09:30 – 17:30last admission 16:00; tours at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open Thursday to Monday all year, 9.30am to 5.30pm, last admission 4pm; closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Access is by guided tour only, with public tours at 10am, 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm (about an hour) and school and group tours at 11am, 1pm and 3pm by arrangement with the site; no online booking, and OPW prints no Christmas closure.

Access is challenging: broad flights of stone steps lead up to the entrance on each front, the tour climbs through three floors and the walkways are uneven, with no lift or accessible toilet listed. Toilets on site; card payments accepted; no cafe or shop; video-recording glasses are not allowed on OPW tours.

Photo: The Casino at Marino, a square neo-classical temple ringed by Doric columns with statues and urns along its roofline and stone lions guarding the steps, on its lawn under a cloudy blue sky. Karora, CC0 1.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casino_at_Marino,_May_2015.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.