OPW Heritage Ireland places in County Dublin

The President of Ireland's residence in the Phoenix Park, a house of 1751 whose portico is said to have inspired the White House; free guided tours on Saturdays only, tickets from 09:30 on the day at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre.

The grave of fourteen executed leaders of the 1916 Rising under a memorial wall carved with the Proclamation, in a military cemetery behind Collins Barracks; free, open daily, Friday tours April to October, car park, dogs on leads.

Sir William Chambers's 1759 neo-classical garden temple for Lord Charlemont at Marino, sixteen hidden rooms seen by guided tour only, Thursday to Monday; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, car park on site.

OPW's 2021 visitor centre in James Gandon's Custom House on the Liffey, telling the building's story, its burning in 1921 and its restoration through interactive displays; self-guided with audio guide or guided tour, open daily, no parking.

The seat of English and British rule in Ireland for 700 years, with State Apartments, the Chapel Royal and Viking-age walls beneath; closed until January 2027 for Ireland's EU Council Presidency.

The Guinness family's Edwardian mansion in the Phoenix Park, now the State Guest House, with free gardens, lake, farm animals and tree trails; house tours (adult €8, free for English Heritage members) paused for 2026, free parking.

Dáithí Hanly's sunken memorial garden of 1966 on Parnell Square, with a cross-shaped pool and Oisín Kelly's Children of Lir sculpture; free, open daily, a lift beside the steps, no parking, no pet dogs.

Ireland's largest military cemetery, opened in 1876 beside the Phoenix Park, with war graves from both world wars, 1916 casualties and a Victoria Cross holder; free, open daily 10:00 to 16:00, Thursday tours April to October, dogs on leads.

The ruined collegiate church of St Mary above Howth harbour, mostly of the 14th and 15th centuries, with a triple bellcote and the St Lawrence tomb, in a graveyard looking out to Ireland's Eye; free, exterior only.

Lutyens's memorial gardens at Islandbridge to the 49,400 Irish dead of the First World War: sunken rose gardens, lily ponds and granite bookrooms in a riverside park; free, open daily from 08:00 until dusk, car park, dogs on leads.

Ninian Niven's 1865 pleasure grounds behind the National Concert Hall, Dublin's secret garden with fountains, a cascade, a yew maze and a rosarium; free, open daily, dogs on leads, no parking.

Dublin's 1796 county gaol where the 1916 leaders were executed, seen on an hour-long timed guided tour then the museum; adult €8, free for English Heritage members who book the free card ticket online, no car park (IMMA pay parking nearby).

Ireland's national botanic gardens on the Tolka at Glasnevin, with Richard Turner's Curvilinear Range, the Great Palm House and 16,000 plant species; free entry, €5 daily guided tour, car park €1 an hour.

The house where Patrick Pearse ran his Irish-speaking school from 1910 to 1916, now a free museum on the Pearse brothers and 1916, in twenty hectares of Rathfarnham parkland with a walled garden, cafe and follies; free, open daily.

The enclosed Victorian flower gardens of 1864 inside the Parkgate Street corner of Phoenix Park: formal bedding, lawns, an ornamental lake, picnic areas and a playground; free, own gate hours, no car park, dogs on leads.

Europe's largest enclosed city park, 700 hectares created as a royal deer park in 1662, with a wild fallow deer herd, the Wellington Testimonial, the Papal Cross and Dublin Zoo; free, open 24 hours, car parks, cafes, walks, dogs on leads.

OPW's free visitor centre in Ashtown Demesne, with an exhibition on Phoenix Park's history, free weekday tours of Ashtown Castle tower house, a Victorian walled garden, cafe, playground and car park; open daily, dogs on leads outside.

Elizabethan fortified house of the 1580s remodelled in Georgian splendour, with exhibitions, a tea room and a free council park around it; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, Wednesday to Sunday in winter.

Ireland's oldest classical building, the soldiers' hospital of 1684 modelled on Les Invalides, now home to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with formal gardens and meadows; free, OPW outdoor tours March to November, paid car park.

Dublin's only surviving medieval parish church near Christ Church, with OPW's exhibition in the Guild Chapel of St Anne and the fifteenth-century Portlester tomb; free, open daily late March to 5 November, no parking.

The vaulted chapter house of Dublin's great Cistercian abbey of 1139, two metres below a Smithfield lane, where Silken Thomas began his 1534 rebellion; free hour-long OPW guided tours only, booked on Eventbrite, stairs only, no parking.

Dublin's nine-hectare Victorian park at the top of Grafton Street, opened by Lord Ardilaun in 1880, with an ornamental lake, waterfall, sculptures and a playground; free, open daily from 07:30, dogs on leads, Luas at the gate.