Marlay Park

I have reviewed the Marlay Park Café and gave it a high recommendation. I’ll just quickly do the same and say the park is excellent, wide and extensive.
Great for a 6K jog
Mark deducted because of these concerts. Shuts downs and just depressing

Great for a walk … great for a run. a 5k run takes place e every Saturday morning. free for all to join … market also here on a Saturday ! And gigs take place here over the summer :-)

Huge park which is great for walking on sunny days.
Big enough dog park as well which is great for my dog to run around and socialize with other dogs.
They host a weekend market in the park too which provide great food.

Acres and acres of beautiful and truly pristine woodland and nature in which to get thoroughly lost, it’s wonderful.
Unless you had planned on a family picnic, forgetting that one of the biggest out door music festivals of the year is happening in 2 days and as a result you can’t get in.
Then it’s acres and acres of beautiful and truly pristine woodland you can go nowhere near while getting silently judged by a six year old.

I love this park, especially for walking my dog because of the huge play pen they have for all the dogs to run wild togheter! :) The park is always spotless and its great for the kids especially on the weekends when the food markets are jammers! Theres a huge selection for lunch so skip breakfast so you can try everything :)!! Dumplings, pies, pizza, juices, pasta and theres even a butcher guy and cheese stall! I got this amazing cream cheese with sweet pepper relish and it was lovely with some bread and crackers. You can also pick up your bread and fresh veg and fruit in the mornings and throughout the day. Closes around 3.30−4pm.

It’s a lovely park as a park but as a concert venue it’s just Awful. takes ages to walk in a crowd from the main gate to the stage. have been there twice, will not make that mistake a 3^rd time

Marley Park is a fantastic amenity — first it’s bleedin’ massive at 300 acres. It has an amazing aray of sporting facilities including tennis, football, golf, GAA and cricket. It has two playgrounds, ponds, rivers, woods and a waterfall !!
What more could you ask for? Well it also has a lovely walled garden with a variety of captive birds and a little café that sells home made produce and to top it all off a little mini train ! All in all a super place to spend an afternoon. The only negative is the parking which can be a little tricky

Probably the nicest park in Dublin, it really has it all. There are two playgrounds (one for the younger kids), tennis courts, football pitches, bmx track, farmer’s market at the weekends, loads a deadly gigs during the summer and amazing views. Don’t be afraid to go for a wander when there, ars there are lots of little trails/​waterfalls that you’ll stumble across. You can also join hundreds of joggers on Saturday morning at 9.30 am to take part in parkrun, a 5 km run with volunteers along the way providing encouragement.

I think Marlay park is a great little park. With a nice market in there on a Saturday, I think its a great way to spend your day! I love to go for runs here, but its a bit on the small side. So be prepared to lap the park a few times. However they have great work out equipment all through the park and really great facilities overall! Its a great place to stop into now that the evenings are bright. Lets just hope the sun comes out! :)

lovely park, great market, friendly people, you could run on a Saturday morning, get some nice coffee at Barry, doing the groceries buying real organic food, cheese, bread, apples, fish, etc., it is a great place to go in

This is a great park to go for a run/​walk in.
Its very big, its very scenic. They have pitches to play sports on, and permanent outdoor exercise equipment dotted around the park.
Marley Park House is also very nice and there is a market here on a Saturday.
I will come here for many a run.

I grew up near Marley Park and it’s one of the most beautiful in Dublin. Great markets, super location for gigs and really well maintained.
I’m not a parent, and I’m certainly not a kid anymore, but I remember that the playground was especially awesome.

A really nice park and a great place for a music festival.
That’s why I was here, for Longitude festival. It’s the only time I’m ever here in Marlay Park truth be told. And every time I tell myself that I really must come back for a look when it’s just a park. But I never do.
Oh well. Until the next concert!

Beautiful park with big trees and lovely flowers. There’s a market every Saturday where you can buy food, coffee, vegetables, juice, olives, art… all of the regular market stuff. It’s a great place to spend a Saturday morning, walking around the park, stopping at the market for a coffee and maybe a few fresh ingredients to take home with you. I got a breakfast crêpe from the «Crêpe» stall, and I wasn’t a big fan, too much cheese (as a cheese lover, you know there was just way too much on there for me to say this!) I also got a coffee from the guys there, which was quite nice and a pear and almond slice from another vendor.

Marlay Park was one of our regular haunts as kids, as dad used to take us to various parks every sunday morning. Aside from seeing Beck and Radiohead play there a few years ago, I hadn’t actually visited the park in some time. With the Spring sunshine breaking through I decided to pop back there for a walk.
Essentially its a manor house with gardens turned into a park — there are manicured gardens, large open stretches of grass, playing fields, playgrounds and wooded areas. One of the things I loved about Marlay as a kid, and still love, are all the little streams and stone bridges throughout the wooded area.
I really enjoyed my walk around the grounds as I happily meandered for nearly two hours, although the sound of the M50 does take a little something away from it! They’ve also enclosed the duck pond with fences now (presumably to stop children falling in — I may have mentioned before that I’ve fallen into a body of water in every park in south dublin — it just has a gravitational pull!!)
Marlay also has a café, an ice-​cream van and a market on Saturdays and Sundays. There’s toilets at at least two locations and possibly a mini railway which may or may not be functional! A lovely day out if the sun is shining!

This is a wonderful park! There are so many amenities in this park for everyone to enjoy. There is a great children playground with lots of swings and slides and climbing frames. There are tennis courts where anyone can enjoy a game of tennis. There are numerous football and gaelic pitches. There are also open green spaces where you could set up a game of rounders or some other game that needs a big space. One endearing part of this park is the small dog park where dog owners can let their little (or big!) dog run around without a lead. Dogs must have a lead everywhere else in the park. As we are talking about animals, you may also spot a peacock or two strutting around the place and of course marlay wouldn’t be a proper park without a flock of ducks that you can bring the end of you loaf of bread to feed. Marlay is great for a walk or a run or even a picnic when its a nice day.

Marlay Park was our treat day out when we were little. The playground — full of wooden swings, mazes, slides, little houses and forts — was the best we’d ever experienced and the BMX track was brilliant. We used spend an entire summer’s days there with a picnic. Kept us occupied for hours on end — good times!
Over the years, I’ve returned to Marlay for fun of a different kind when I ventured into some quality outdoor concerts including Morrissey and Faithless along with Kasabian. It’s a great place for a venue because this massive park can facilitate the crowds and buses that descend without causing (too much) disruption. You also feel like you’re at a festival for a day without all of the mankiness!
Marlay is also the starting point of Wicklow Way so hikers should head here if they’re determined to cover the whole trail.

Who says theres nothing to do in Rathfarnham! Besides being one of the biggest parks in suburban Dublin. Marlay park has recently been a pretty good, if out of the way, concert venue. There’s an Aldi on the grange road if your looking for cheap beer before hand.
The place is also huge at over 300 acres as well as having 5 G.A.A pitches, 6 Soccer pitches, Tennis Courts, Cricket grounds, a BMX cycle track. Its equipped with 2 playgrounds so if the kids are driving you nuts throw them in here.
A golf course is under re-​development and a famers market is on evey Sarurday near the main Marlay house. As well as this theres a coffee shop and toilets. If your just looking for a quiet walk or get out into the sun on a nice day then Marlay park is a must.
The opening hours very depending on the time of year. These are from DL/​Rathdown county council.
September 9.00am to 9.00pm
October 9.00am to 8.00pm
November, December, January 9.00am to 5.00pm
February, March 9.00am to 6.00pm
April — August 9.00am to 10.00pm

I just to love Marley Park as a kid, with its BMX park and wicked adventure play ground with lots of spaces to hide from parents, and tonnes of kids going wild, not to mention the crazy peacocks who would attack my dad’s shiny car!
But having gone to Marley last week I found the whole place really dead and well, groomed! All the grass is cut and the pitches are in great nick! Tress have been cut and gardens planted. BMX park is no longer and playground is really dull and uninteresting and nobody was using it!
This is like a paint by numbers park. It is really clean, lots of wide open spaces and picnic spots but it has lots all of its rugged wildness and in my opinion some of its charm!

Tolle Konzertlocation mit Festival-​Flair. Auch, wenn das diesjährige Lenny Kravitz Konzert wegen des Wetters eher Woodstock glich, sind die Konzerte im Park bei Sonnenschein mit einem ganz besonderen Flair versehen. Man kann in Picnic-​Atmosphäre auf dem Gras sitzend der Musik lauschen, es ist nicht zu voll und die Menschen sind sehr viel entspannter als bei so manch anderem Konzert.
Aus dem Stadtzentrum braucht man mit dem Auto schon seine 30 Minuten, wenn man abends hierher will. Also: Zeit einplanen.

I really like Marlay Park! It is full of woodlands and ponds which is a nice scenic place to go for a walk. There are is so much to do here, the facilities include a nine hole par three golf course, tennis courts, BMX cycle track, fourteen football pitches, cricket pitch, a children’s playground and a miniature railway. There is also a craft courtyard with home craft shops and coffee shops.

Einer meiner liebsten Parks in Dublin. Zwar etwas außerhalb, an der Südgrenze Dublins gelegen, ist er dennoch immer wieder einen Wochenend-​Ausflug wert, ob mit oder ohne Kinder. Am Eingang Grange Road, der über ausreichend Parkplätze verfügt, steht das im Georgianischen Stil gebaute Marlay House (mit Cafeteria), daneben das Marlay Craft Centre, in dessen Innenhof jeden Samstag ein gemütlicher kleiner Markt stattfindet.
Ebenfalls Samstags kommen die älteren Herren des privaten Mini-​Dampfeisenbahn-​Vereins auf ihre Kosten: sie bauen und werkeln an den wunderschönen, liebevoll gepflegten Dampfloks herum und freuen sich über haufenweise Kinder, die auf dem Zug eine große Runde drehen wollen und dafür im Sommer auch längere Wartezeiten in Kauf nehmen! Das Vergnügen ist kostenlos.
Mehrere ausgeschilderte Spazierwege führen durch die Wäldchen und Lichtungen, über die großen Wiesen, entlang am Fluß, vorbei am Wasserfall, über kleine Brücken zwei Spielplätze stehen zur Verfügung, ein etwas älterer nahe des College Road-​Eingangs gelegen (ebenfalls ausreichend Parkplätze, dort auch die Eisenbahn), der andere (im letzten Sommer neu angelegte) liegt etwa 10 Gehminuten vom Grange Road-​Eingang entfernt am südlichen Ende des Parks.
Aufpassen: im Sommer dient der Marlay Park als Austragungsort für große Outdoor-​Konzerte: 2008 treten dort Muse, Metallica und The Killers auf. Wer an solch einem Wochenende auf ein gemütliches Picnic setzt, muss Menschenmassen in Kauf nehmen.