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1 Phoenix Park
Park Gate, Conyngham Rd, Dublin 8.
@ 10, 25, 26, 37, 38, 39 & many other
routes. Open daily. Phoenix Park
Visitor Centre: Tel 677 0095.
Open Apr–Oct: 10am–6pm daily;
Nov–Mar: 9:30am–5:30pm Wed–
Sun. & = 0 7 ground floor
only. ∑ phoenixpark.ie
Zoo: Tel 474 8900. Open Mar–Sep:
9:30am– 6pm daily; Oct: 9:30am–
5:30pm daily; Nov–Dec: 9:30am–4pm
daily; Jan: 9:30am–4:30pm daily; Feb:
9:30am–5pm daily. (last adm: 1 hr
before closing). & 0 7 =
∑ dublinzoo.ie
Just to the west of the city The Phoenix Column in Dublin, erected by the fourth Earl of Chesterfield in 1747
centre, ringed by an 11-km
(7-mile) wall, is Europe’s largest Dublin Zoo, established in from captured French cannons.
enclosed city park. The name 1831, making it the third oldest The 27-m (90-ft) steel Papal
“Phoenix” is said to be a cor- zoo in the world. The zoo is Cross marks the spot where the
ruption of the Gaelic Fionn Uisce, renowned for the successful pope celebrated Mass in front
or “clear water”. The Phoenix breeding of lions, including of over one million people in
Column is crowned by a statue the one that appears at the 1979. Buildings within the park
of the mythical bird. Phoenix beginning of MGM movies. include two 18th-century houses:
Park originated in 1662, when The African Plains Savanna Áras an Uachtaráin, the Irish
the Duke of Ormonde turned houses the larger residents. President’s official residence, for
the land into a deer park. In In addition to the Phoenix which 525 tickets are issued
1745 it was landscaped and Column, the park has two other every Saturday for a free guided
opened to the public. conspicuous monuments. The tour, and Deerfield, home of the
Near Park Gate is the lake side Wellington Testimonial, a 63-m US Ambassador. Ashtown
People’s Garden – the only part (206-ft) obelisk, was begun in Castle is a restored 17th-century
of the park which has been 1817 and completed in 1861. tower house, now home to the
cultivated. A little further on is Its bronze bas-reliefs were made Phoenix Park Visitor Centre.
Phoenix Park
1 Ashtown Castle
Ashtown 2 Deerfield
Gate
NAVAN (N3) CASTLEKNOCK ROAD 3 Papal Cross
Castleknock 4 Phoenix Column
Gate B L A C K H O R S E A V E N U E 5 Áras An Uachtaráin
6 Dublin Zoo
White’s 7 Wellington Testimonial
Gate
Cabra 8 People’s Garden
Gate
C H E S T E R F I E L D A V E N U E

Knockmaroon
Gate C H E S T E R F I E L D A V E N U E
NCR
Gate
KNOCKM A R OON HILL
Park
Islandbridge CONYNGHAM RD Gate
Gate
DUBLIN
West Link (M50) Chapelizod NAAS (N7)
Gate
C H A P E L I Z O D R O A D L i ff e y
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0 yards 500
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