Contact details Facilities and Access ‘Some think that angels, beasts of the (01) 4939462 The Castle is fully accessible with [email protected] an entrance ramp and lift. Toilet field, and fowls of the air do fly or run to www.rathfarnhamcastle.ie facilities on-site. There is an adjoining tea-room which is open Find us on Facebook (search for seven days. Rathfarnham’ Rathfarnham Castle) Castle Robert Legge, 1590. Directions Opening Hours Rathfarnham Castle is Summer (May to September approximately 5km south of inclusive): City Centre. Open seven days including Bank Holiday Mondays Driving 9.30-5.30 (last admission 4.45) From Christ Church Cathedral in the City take the R137 (later R114) Winter (October to April inclusive): south directly to the Castle. Ample Open Wed-Sun 10.30-5.00 (last pay-and-display car parking is admission 4.15). available near by.

Admission Prices Bus Adult €4.00 A regular Dublin Bus service Senior/Group €3.00 (nos 16 and 15b) stops outside Student €2.00 the Castle. These buses can be Family €10.00 caught on Dame St or South Great Georges St in the City Centre. Heritage Cards are also available to purchase at Rathfarnham Castle.

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Photography: Davison & Associates (Apollo ceiling) National Monuments Photography Unit (Exterior shot) The Loftus family left and sold Rathfarnham Castle in the A series of regular temporary exhibitions are also held at Welcome to nineteenth century and it was occupied by a series of later Rathfarnham Castle throughout the year. owners, most notably the Blackburne family who lived here Rathfarnham Castle until 1911. For much of the remainder of the twentieth century For details about these and other special events please consult our website or the building was used by the Jesuit religious order before Facebook page (see below). This Elizabethan period fortified house was coming under State care following their departure in the late commissioned in 1583 by the Archbishop- nineteen eighties. Chancellor of , (d.1605), What else is nearby? as his private residence. The design was Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park: Former radically modern for the time and the What will I see? school run by the Irish revolutionary building combined defensive features Visitors can choose to self guide through the Patrick Pearse. Now a museum in one of such as the four angled corner towers building or take a guided tour. Dublin’s most charming parks. Features a and a series of musket loops with the dedicated Nature Room. comfort and status demanded by the You will learn about the origins and early owner. history of the building and the Loftus family Marlay Park: Extensive parkland with a before proceeding through a series of finely large Georgian house built for the first Extensive remodelling and redecoration decorated eighteenth-century rooms. For governor of the , David La of Rathfarnham Castle took place in example, you will see the grand entrance hall Touche. Craftcentre and coffee shop now the eighteenth century under a series of complete with doric columns and neo-classical in the ancillary buildings. Marlay Park is later owners. Perhaps most notable are marble busts and the ballroom which was the focus of also the starting point for the Way the works commissioned by Henry Loftus aristocratic entertainment. Several rooms feature antique walking trail. (d.1783) of such famous architects and furniture and a collection of original paintings, landcapes and designers as Sir William Chambers and James portraits, are hung throughout the building. The Hellfire Club: Now ruined eighteenth- ‘Athenian’ Stuart. Much of the neo-classical century hunting lodge built by William Connolly in design and decoration which characterises the building today can the Dublin mountains. be attributed to their efforts.