St Anne’s Park

One of my favourite things about this beautiful park is how it never seems to FEEL crowded, no matter how busy it is (ok, with the exception of the children’s playground, which can just be madness). There are so many wide comfortable paths to stroll along and it’s easily accessible on the DART from city centre. Get off at Harmonstown and it’s less than 10 minutes’ walk. It’s nice to come every few months to take in the changing seasons — I especially love the patches of wild daffodils that pop up in amongst the trees in the spring.
On the weekends, there’s a market with food and fresh veggies. Tip for dog owners: dogs are allowed off-​lead up to 11.00am each day & for the last hour before closing time.

Visit St. Anne’s Park Rose Festival provides an enjoyable and entertaining fun day out for all the family. Admission to the Festival is free and car parking is provided within the Park

I love St Annes park. They have a beautiful well kept rose garden, duck ponds, football pitches, pitch and putt, café, playground and stunning ruins spotted around the whole park. The only bad thing is the duck ponds tend to be quite dirty and need a little but of love.

St. Anne’s Park is by far one of my favorite places in Dublin! It is a beautiful spot to go for a walk, jog, picnic, take pictures, read a book, play sports, etc. and is easily accessible via public transit. Take the DART and get off at «Raheny» stop or take one of the following bus lines: 29A, 31, 31A, 130
The park itself is quite large with a nice walk path that cuts through the interior and is lined with trees and sports fields on either side. Towards the east end of the park there is a wonderful rose garden that is not to be missed when in bloom (March-​Aug) and a variety of play structures (including a newly added zip-​line + climbing tower) for kids. On the weekend there is also a small farmers market that takes place at the Red Stables just off to the right of the playground.
Now if you follow the paved path off to the left, away from the playground and Stables, you will be treated to a beautiful walkway that is surrounded by trees, a small stream, a number of neat looking structures (apparently called Follies) and a small duck pond. There are also a variety of small paths that branch off from this area that that allow for a bit of «off the path» exploration. Personally this is my favorite part of the park and where we end up spending most of our time :)

These is a really good place to go. If you want just to relax and read a book alone, have your lunch/​breakfast in the grass or just talk with your friend somewhere quietly — go to St. Ann park. There is a few people in the morning, and nobody after 7 pm. I was living not far from here, so I was coming with my book and sitting at the grass in the evenings. There is football and basketball field, where children play in the centre and tall trees around. The park is opposite the bus stop, so you can go to the city centre without any problems.

I can’t believe I haven’t reviewed S. Anne’s until now.
As a Clontarfian, I have spent at least an hour a week here from my birth to my emigration 22 years later. That’s a lorra lorra hours. I won’t go through the history of the park here, look at the Wikipedia page if that’s what you’re after.
What I will say is this place is great. A lot of work has gone into making St. Anne’s more accessible over the past few years. Paths have been fixed and the less ‘hospitable’ areas have been cleaned up and made more open to prevent people hiding and being messers.
St. Anne’s is wonderful for a brisk walk or a bit of exploration. The Chesnut pathway which runs parallel to the Coast Road is a firm favourite with dog walkers and cyclists. The play ground which is towards the centre of the park is wonderful and seems to be constantly updated with new attractions (well, every few years at least). Some furtehr exploration and you’ll come across the Naniken river which runs through the park. It’s banks are well kept so it’s a nice walk along it, complete with some awesome looking ruins. It runs out towards the ‘big pond’ which is great for duck watching!
The Red Stables can be found near the play ground/​Mount Prospect side. With a café and an art gallery this art centre is definitely worth a visit, especially on a Sunday when there can be any number of things going on here!
St. Anne’s also hosts the Rose Gardens, which are impeccably kept and cultivated, and the walled garden which has very particular opening hours (though these can be, ahem, circumvented as a teenage Sara C found out).
Keep searching and you’ll find GAA pitches, some tennis courts, a pitch and putt, a race track for r/​c cars and a ‘dog park’.
St. Anne’s park is a treasure trove of wonderful structures and a hub of activity!

I lived by here for over a year and went here nearly every day. great for cycling around. And there is a strip about a mile long (I measured it) which is great for roller skating. great play ground here too. Always a busy park. Great food market here on a saturday.

A lovely spot to go with the dig, cat, children, friends, lovers, strangers. The park is the second largest municipal park in Dublin.
With a Farmers’ Market at The Red Stables every Saturday it provides a wonderful ambience for a coffee or just to peruse around the stalls.
In July they have a Rose Garden Festival which transports you to a different time and space.

Again having grown up in Raheny, St Annes Park was a big part of my youth. I remember skating down there! (Not rollerblading — the reall skates), playing dungeons and dragons, feeding ducks, chasing boys playing football, sneaking in at lunch time from school (which was forbidden).
I also brought my son now 21yrs there all through the years. I remember for Christimas he got this kind of Quasar type gun toy. He is only child his friends weren’t allowed out so on St Stephens day I was down there hiding behind trees, crawling in bushes, taking high vantage points and some serious battles went on! But I also jumped out from behind a bush, with my best war cry, to shoot my son only to realise it was a couple walking their dog! I frightened the pants off them! I had to assure them I had a 10yr old in the bushes somewhere and was actually trying to shoot him! Mortified!
Now I have young tots and am disappointed by the playground. They have in recent years put gravel in and it is filthy stuff! There is nothing in the playground for young kids of toddler years. Everything is too big and if they fall the stones are just awful. They are in their shoes and I usually find some in their nappies when we get home! I would love to see a modern playground put in with a toddler area.
But other than that a fab day out with kids. There are so many little bridges and cubby holes of ancient buildings to investigate. Great fun. Ducks are in still in the pond! Oh and my sister fell into the pond many years ago with a net trying to get frog spawn. She was covered in moss and gunk and stank! Had to sit in car and drive home. My son thought it was hilarious.

It being our last day and night in Ireland we wanted to relax, spend the night in a castle, and maybe take a stroll. Lucky for us, St. Anne’s Park was nearby and was the perfect place to unwind. Others have already talked about the long history of this park and how vast (266 acres) it is. So I will just say that it’s beautiful and worth the visit.
I especially liked the Rose garden and I don’t feel all girly for saying it. I swear the actual rose garden area was more length and width then a football field. Each bundle of roses were as bright and colorful as if they just blossomed. I couldn’t even come close to pronouncing half of their names but it was kind of cool to learn that they had some instead of you know Red, Yellow, so on.
Oh and a red squirrel tried to take my hat, watch out for those little thieves!

Incredible park, so well kept and a great place to bring the dog for walk, rose garden this time of the year is beautiful. Have events on most weekends so well worth a visit and if a dog is off the lead relax owners are generally very responsible, try playing fetch with a dog full of energy on a lead its unnatural.

I’ve grown up in Raheny right next to the park — I love it! — There is just so much to do and it doesn’t matter if its raining, snowing, cold or sunny. I won’t go into the history of the park as Cathal C seems to have covered it pretty well.
Its fantastic for kids of all ages, they can feed the ducks in the old pond, play at the adventure playground, collect chestnuts or kick a ball about. I love to take photos in the park through all seasons as its changes are simply glorious.
If you are coming to the park with your partner, the rose gardens are beautiful and so well kept. Feeling sporty? Bring your golf clubs or tennis equipment.
For me, the best part is taking my two dogs there in the morning for a run — there is just so much space and no one around. It can be a little confusing for new visitors so I suggest that you park by the Tennis courts off All Saints Road (its free) and work your way in from there.

There is something about Saint Anne’s Park that catapults me back to being 10 years old again. I literally get that fuzzy excitement that makes me want to roll down grassy hills, swing on the monkey bars, run for absolutely no reason whatsoever, climb trees, or challenge someone to a stick-​in-​the-​stream race.
The park is a place that all members of the family, of all ages, will enjoy. The rose gardens would be the perfect place to bring your aging grandparents for a stroll, and the forested area with its babbling brook is stunningly romantic, especially in the autumn.
The huge old trees are wizened and warped, and excellent for climbing (or hiding behind to sneak an illicit smoke as we did as teenagers).
There’s loads of wildlife to be spotted here, including foxes and both grey and red squirrels.

St Anne’s is gorgeous and absolutely massive. So massive in fact, that I’ve never seen the whole thing.
It is really popular on sunny days and weekends, with the tree-​lined road into the park absolutely packed with walkers and kids on bikes when the weather is fine.
It’s a lovely place to pick out a quiet spot in which to relax. Being a little outside the city it’s a little less well-​known than Phoenix, but it really is just as cool. Some parts of the park are really unspoilt and make you feel as though you’re in a forest. Very cool!
Good spot for sunbaking, if the weather (ever) permits it.

I have to agree with Cathal’s review of St Anne’s Park, it really is a lovely park.
The playground it has is great for kids and there are lots of little ponds all over the place. It’s a lovely place to go for a little walk or a wander.
I personally have never had any bad experiences here at night, but I have heard of some bad stories and would very much steer clear of the place once it gets dark. But saying that, I would never walk in a park late at night anyway, cause in my mind you’re asking for trouble of you do, so it’s not particularly worse than any other park.

I’m very surprised that no-​one has reviewed St Anne’s Park yet, but I’m glad that I shall be the first to wax lyrical on it’s myriad features.
St Anne’s is the second biggest park in Dublin, second only to the Phoenix Park, the largest enclosed park in western Europe. St Anne’s was originally larger, it’s original extent occupying what is now St Anne’s housing estate in Raheny and St Paul’s College and the St Paul’s swimming pool. The park was originally the estate of the Guinness family, but was sold by the family to Dublin Corporation in the 1930s. The Guinness’ mansion burnt down in 1940s, and was located on the atop the small, flat hill adjacent to where the playground is now.
St Anne’s has a frankly weird array of features. It has a playground, a pond, another pond that is in the process of being filled in, a restaurant, a farmer’s market, a remote-​controlled car racetrack (?), an unofficial BMX bike area known as «the chuckies», a couple of follies, a carefully manicured rose garden, a holy well… The list goes on and on.

St Anne’s is one of my favourite parks near Clontarf but is actually in Raheny!
St Anne’s is famous for it’s rose gardens which are stunning when in bloom. I could sit for hours on a fine day looking at all the different varieties of roses. In the Summer a rose festival is held in St Anne’s.
There are plenty of walks in St Annes to do and after, one can visit The Stables for a cup of tea and some eats. On Saturdays there is a farmers market in the courtyard at The Stables.
There are plenty of soccer pitches, GAA pitches, a racing track for remote control cars (very popular with Dad’s who practically covet their children’s toy cars). There is a lso a lovely playground for the children and a dog park to excerise your dogs without it bolting off.
On a fine day it is lovely to walk from St Annes to Dollymount Strand.

A beautiful park in Clontarf, North Dublin. Is famous for the market it hosts on the weekends, the fabulous rose garden, the Red Stables, where some artists have their workshops you can visit, and large soccer fields. Great place for a sunny weekend.