Plan A Visit
Museum Opening Hours
November – January
Monday to Sunday: 9.30am – 4pm
February
Monday to Sunday: 9.30am – 5pm
March – October
Monday to Sunday: 9.30am – 5.30pm
The museum is closed over the Christmas period.
Park Opening Hours
9am – 4.30pm
February
9am – 5.30pm
March
9am – 6pm
April
9am – 8pm
May – August
9am – 9pm
September
9am – 8pm
October
9am – 6pm
At weekends and Bank Holidays, the Park opens at 9am.
The Park is closed on Christmas Day.
Admission
There is no charge for entry to the park or museum.
Visit
The average length of a visit to the park and museum is one to two hours.
Tours
Guided tours available. Group tours should be booked in advance.
Tours last around half an hour. There is access for disabled visitors everywhere except the Halla Mór.
Facilities
The Schoolhouse Café is located in the courtyard and is open daily. The toilet facilities in St. Enda’s park are open daily.
Photography/ Video
For permission to carry out commercial and professional filming or photography, please visit https://heritageireland.ie/visit/venue-hire/filming-and-photography/
Location
The museum and park are approximately eight kilometres from Dublin City Centre.
Transport
The number 16 bus stops at the main entrances to the park on Grange Road. The numbers 74 and S8 also serve the Rathfarnham area. Check Dublin Bus for up to date schedules. There is parking for both cars and coaches on site.
Also in the Area
Rathfarnham Castle
Distance: 1.9km.
Elizabethan castle, remodelled in the Georgian period, with an extensive art collection.
Airfield House, Farm, and Gardens
Distance: 4.7km.
Thirty-eight-acre working farm, gardens, café, and heritage experience.
Marlay Park and House
Distance: 1.3km.
300-acre park containing a Georgian house and walled garden. The courtyard of the manor contains a number of craft workshops.
Dodder Valley Park
Distance: 3.6km.
A scenic park, rich in heritage, that runs alongside the River Dodder.
Rathfarnham Village
Large festivals and concerts are held in Marlay Park, and there is a market there every weekend.
Only 25 minutes from the city centre, and a gateway in itself to the splendour of the Dublin and Wicklow mountains, Rathfarnham village is well worth a visit.
Teach an Phiarsaigh
A site related to the Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park, and also under the care of the Office of Public Works, is Teach an Phiarsaigh, or Patrick Pearse’s Cottage in Galway.
This is a small restored cottage overlooking the breathtaking lakes and mountains of Connemara, used by Pearse as a summer residence and summer school for his pupils from St Enda’s.
Accompanying Pearse on a visit to Ros Muc in 1915 was Desmond Ryan, a former pupil, who later wrote of the enthusiasm engendered by Pearse in his visits there: “The Twelve Pins came in sight and Pearse waved his hand here and there over the land, naming lake, mountain and district away to the Joyce Country under its purple mist.” Ryan also recalled the long walks and cycle rides through the heart of the Connemara Gaeltacht and the stories told by Pearse that had been recounted to him by local story tellers.
The interior, although burned during the War of Independence, has been reconstructed and contains an exhibition.
Visit the website for Teach an Phiarsaigh here.
