Plan a Visit
Opening Hours
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens are open all year round, except Christmas Day.
Monday – Friday: 8am – dusk.
Saturday – Sunday: 9.30am – dusk.
Please contact us for exact closing hours on any given day.
Location
There are entrances to the gardens from both Con Colbert Road, from the Phoenix Park end of the South Circular Road and via riverside footpath from Chapelizod village through Liffey-Valley park.
Transport
Buses serving the area are numbers 51d, 25 66,67,79a and 69. Check the Dublin Bus website for up to date schedules. Car parking is available from the South Circular Road entrance.
War Memorial Gardens
Drag the yellow figure to the red pin to explore the site at streetview level.
Tours
There are Free OPW guided tours that take place on Wednesdays only, at 11.00am, from 12th April to 25th October 2023. The meeting point for the tours is inside the gates of the car park.
No booking is necessary. Subject to change and weather permitting. For more information please contact the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre at phoenixparkvisitorcentre@opw.ie or on 01-6770095.
Visit
The average length of a visit to the gardens is one to two hours.
Admission
There is no charge for entry to the gardens.
Photography
Photography and video are permitted; contact us for permission for commercial photography
Also in the Area
Kilmainham Gaol
Distance: 850m.
One of the largest unoccupied gaols in Europe, covering some of the most heroic and tragic events in Ireland’s emergence as a modern nation from 1780s to the 1920s.
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Distance: 2km
See especially Bully’s Acre, a graveyard with thousand-year-old history on the grounds.
Phoenix Park
Distance: 2km.
One of the largest walled city parks in Europe.
Grangegorman Military Cemetery
Distance: 3.9km.
This graveyard contains hundreds of casualties from the Great War, as well as from Easter week in 1916, and from the Irish War of Independence.
You can also read about the history of the site before your visit.
Find out about the retired servicemen who constructed the gardens to the design of Sir Edwin Lutyens.