Palmerston Park () is a public park and residential area in

Dartry Dartry () is a small suburb of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, often referred to as a corridor between Rathmines area and Milltown, Dublin, Milltown. Among the locations in Dartry are Dartry Road, Temple Road, Orwell Park and Palmerston ...

, a suburb of

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, Ireland. The park is situated at the top of Palmerston Road. It is split into two sections, the east section consisting of open grass areas with a path around leading to a playground, the west section being more enclosed with a pond, flower beds and numerous routes to walk. The park has opening and closing times that vary throughout the year. These times are displayed on the gates to the park.

History

The park is situated to the North of what was Rathmines Castle which was constructed around 1636 on the site of an earlier tower house at the top of a hill facing the

River Dodder The River Dodder () is one of the three main rivers in Dublin, Ireland, the others being the River Liffey, Liffey, of which the Dodder is the largest tributary, and the River Tolka, Tolka. Course and system The Dodder rises on the northern s ...

. It is likely this was also close to the original Rath which contributed to the Rathmines name. The castle appears to have been restored by George Radcliffe after it was badly damaged during the Battle of Rathmines and was later occupied by Captain William Shore until his death in 1668. In 1746, the castle was leased to Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet by

Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston ( – 10 June 1757), of East Sheen, Surrey and Broadlands, Hampshire, was an Anglo-Ireland, Irish landowner and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1727 to 1747. Early life Temple ...

. The path to Milltown was hence called Yorke's path on some maps from this date. It housed a boys school by 1789 ran by Reverend Charles Barry and was later demolished around 1840 and replaced with Palmerston Park. A nearby successor school was the later Rathmines School. A new Rathmines Castle was later built around 1820 at a different location. This castellated house was itself demolished in the mid 1960s to make way for a new Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines.

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