Pearse Museum and St Enda's Park

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free for everyone, museum and park; guided tours are available and group tours must be booked in advance by phone or email. No membership card is needed.

ParkingFree parkingFree for all visitors

No charge for anyone.

Parking details

OPW's social guide names the main car park on Sarah Curran Avenue and says parking is free; from it a gravel path runs beside the playing fields to the gate lodge and the avenue to the museum, under half a kilometre, which reviewers call a ten-minute walk. Vehicular access to the museum itself is through the main gates on Grange Road, with a small car park beside the house suited to blue badge holders and drop-offs; a reviewer with limited mobility was advised to arrive by taxi. A further small car park is on Taylor's Lane at its junction with Grange Road (R113). Coach parking. The park is about 8 km from the city centre; Dublin Bus serves Grange Road (the guide's route numbers predate the city's bus redesign, so check current services).

Driving pin: the main car park on Sarah Curran Avenue; OPW's own pin is on the museum.

About

The Pearse Museum in St Enda's Park, Rathfarnham, is the granite house known as the Hermitage where Patrick Pearse, leader of the 1916 Rising, lived and ran his pioneering Irish-speaking school from 1910 to 1916. Set in nearly twenty hectares of parkland eight kilometres from the city centre, the museum tells the story of Pearse and his brother Willie, both executed for their part in the Rising, through an exhibition on his life and the historic rooms where the family and their students lived and worked, including the entrance hall from which the brothers left home for the last time. The museum is entered through the walled garden, and a nature room and the Schoolroom Café share the courtyard. The romantic landscape around the house holds a wild river valley, woodland and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century follies. Entry is free, the main car park on Sarah Curran Avenue is free and a ten-minute walk from the house, and dogs are welcome on a lead in the park.

ClosedPick a day for times and prices

Until 31 Oct: Daily 09:00–18:00
1–30 Nov: Daily 09:30–16:00
1–31 Dec: Daily 09:00–16:30

Later dates are in the calendar.

Today, Saturday 24 October

Pearse Museum and St Enda's Park09:00 – 18:00

Free entry

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open all year. Museum: March to October 09:30 to 17:30, February 09:30 to 17:00, November to January 09:30 to 16:00. Park: May to August 09:00 to 21:00, April and September 09:00 to 20:00, March and October 09:00 to 18:00, February 09:00 to 17:30, November to January 09:00 to 16:30. OPW prints no closed days. Guided tours are available; group tours must be booked in advance on 01 493 4208 or pearsemuseum@opw.ie.

Access to the museum and historic rooms is through the walled garden; a lift serves the first floor and there are wheelchair-accessible toilets on each floor. Eight rooms with panels in Irish and English, an audio tour, baby changing, the Nature Room and the Schoolroom Café in the courtyard, serving snacks and lunch daily. Dogs are not allowed in the walled garden or the cafe courtyard.

Dogs: Pet dogs are allowed on a lead throughout St Enda's Park but not in the walled garden or the cafe courtyard, through which the museum is entered, so they cannot come into the museum.

Photo: The Pearse Museum, the granite house where Patrick Pearse ran St Enda's school, seen across the lawn from the avenue in St Enda's Park. Patrick Cunningham, CC BY 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pearse_Brother%27s_Museum_-_St._Enda%27s_Park.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.