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The Phoenix Park (Irish: Páirc an Fhionnuisce [1]) is a large urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 kilometres (1.2–2.5 mi) west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares (1,750 acres) of recreational space.
The Magazine Fort is a bastion fort and magazine located within the Phoenix Park, in Dublin, Ireland.Built in 1735, it was occupied by British Armed Forces until 1922 when it was turned over to the Irish Defence Forces after the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Mountjoy House, the headquarters of Ordnance Survey Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Thomas Colby, the long-serving Director-General of the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain, was the first to suggest that the Ordnance Survey be used to map Ireland. A highly detailed survey of the whole of Ireland would be extremely useful for the British ...
The Royal Military Infirmary, looking from Phoenix Park The RMI and all other British Military installations fell under the direct control of the Irish Free State ( Saorstát Éireann ) in 1922 and the Department of Defence became the managing entity of the old Infirmary site and that remains the case to the present day.
The plans were prepared by the Royal Engineers' Department, under the direction of architect Major Robert Barklie RE, Larne, County Antrim. [8] An imposing and extravagant cavalry barracks, the style of the Officers' Mess is a mixture between Elizabethan and Queen Anne, and the general appearance of its red brick and red roof tiles, with "traceried windows, floriated pinnacles, parapets and ...
Knockmaree Dolmen, or Knockmaree Cist, is a prehistoric site of the Neolithic period, in Phoenix Park just north of Chapelizod, near Dublin, Ireland. Other forms of the name are Knockmary or Knockmaroon Dolmen, or Cnoc-Maraidhe.
The Phoenix Park Tunnel is a railway tunnel in Dublin, Ireland. The tunnel was built in 1877 and begins at the Liffey Railway Bridge near Heuston Station , running underneath the Phoenix Park for 757 yards (692 m) before re-emerging close to the junction of the Infirmary Road and North Circular Road. [ 1 ]
There is no official residence of the Taoiseach, with each Taoiseach residing in either their own homes, or in an apartment in Dublin.In the 1970s, plans were made to turn the former Apostolic Nunciature (formerly the Under Secretary's Lodge) in the Phoenix Park into an official residence.