Farmleigh, Dublin

Name: Farmleigh
Address: Phoenix Park, Dublin, D15 TD50, Ireland
Telephone: +353 1 815 5914

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Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family. It is situated on an elevated position above the River Liffey to the north-west of the Phoenix Park, in Castleknock. The estate of 78 acres consists of extensive private gardens with stands of mature cypress, pine and oak trees, a boating pond, walled garden, sunken garden, out offices and a herd of rare native Kerry cattle. It was purchased by the Government of Ireland from the 4th Earl of Iveagh in 1999 for €29.2 million. A state body—the Office of Public Works —spent in the region of €23 million restoring the house, gardens and curvilinear glasshouses, bringing the total cost to the state to €52.2 million. Farmleigh was opened to the public in July 2001. ()

Alternative names: Elevation: 197 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 53°21'54"N, 6°21'29"W

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Phoenix ParkDublin D15 TD50 Ireland

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+353 1 815 5914

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Nearby attractions include: Ashtown Castle, Knockmaree Dolmen, Castleknock, Anna Livia Bridge.

1.1 miE
Museum, History museum, Visitor center
Ashtown Castle, Dublin
29 min walk • Ashtown Castle is a tower house in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland. It was found hidden within the walls of a much larger and more recent Georgian building, the Under Secretary's Lodge also known as Ashtown Lodge, that was being used by the Papal Nuncio until 1978.
1.2 miSE
Archaeological site
Knockmaree Dolmen, Dublin
31 min walk • 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.
0.4 miN
Neighbourhood
Castleknock, Dublin
11 min walk • Castleknock is a civil parish and a townland located in the south-western corner of the modern county of Fingal, Ireland. The civil parish is part of the ancient barony of Castleknock. It is centred on the suburban village of Castleknock.
1.3 miSE
Bridge
Anna Livia Bridge, Dublin
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0.4 miSW
Bridge
Farmleigh Bridge, Dublin
10 min walk • The Farmleigh Bridge, also known as the Silver Bridge, Guinness Bridge or Strawberry Beds Bridge, is a disused bridge spanning the River Liffey and the Lower Lucan Road in Dublin, Ireland. Farmleigh Bridge is a single-span cast iron box truss bridge.
1 miW
Bridge
West-Link, Dublin
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1.3 miNW
Neighbourhood
Carpenterstown, Dublin
33 min walk • Carpenterstown is a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock. The civil parish is part in the ancient barony of Castleknock. In geology, the townland rests on a substratum of limestone and comprises 166 statute acres, the whole of which is arable land.
1 miNE
Sport venue, Sport
Phoenix Park Racecourse, Dublin
26 min walk • Phoenix Park Racecourse is a former horse racing venue in Ireland. It was located in the townlands of Ashtown and Castleknock in the civil parish of Castleknock on the northern edge of the Phoenix Park in Dublin.