Parks in Dublin

At 707 hectares, Phoenix Park is one of the largest enclosed urban parks in Europe — more than twice the size of New York's Central Park. It has been a public park since 1747 and is home to a free-roaming herd of fallow deer.

St Stephen's Green is Dublin's best-loved city-centre park — a beautifully landscaped 9-hectare Victorian garden surrounded by some of the city's finest Georgian architecture. It has been a public green since 1664.

Merrion Square is the finest surviving Georgian square in Dublin, surrounded by elegant red-brick townhouses and home to a charming public park with a much-loved statue of Oscar Wilde lounging on a boulder.

The Iveagh Gardens are Dublin's "secret garden" — a beautifully maintained Victorian park hidden behind the National Concert Hall, largely unknown to tourists despite being just minutes from St Stephen's Green.