Cabbage Patch

Cabbage Patch

Overview

The Cabbage Patch is a small public park at New Street Gardens in the Liberties, a few minutes from St Patrick's Cathedral. It has a multi-use games area and a story that goes back more than 350 years.

The land was once a cabbage garden, and later a burial ground for Dublin's Huguenot community.

History

In 1649 soldiers rented this land from a local landowner, Philip Fernley, and grew cabbages on it, which gave the place its name. In 1666 the Lady Chapel of St Patrick's Cathedral was given to the Huguenots, French Protestant refugees, as a place of worship. In 1681 they were leased a strip of land in the Cabbage Gardens for a cemetery, consecrated in 1685.

Many of the Liberties' merchants and tradespeople were buried here until the cemetery closed to burials in 1878. Dublin Corporation opened the old burial ground as a public park in 1982.

Getting there

The Cabbage Patch is off New Street and Kevin Street, Dublin 8. St Patrick's Cathedral, St Patrick's Park and Marsh's Library are all a few minutes' walk away.

Opening hours

Like most Dublin City Council parks, Cabbage Patch opens at 10am every day and closes around dusk, so closing time changes through the year:

  • January and December: 5pm
  • February and November: 5.30pm
  • March: 6.30pm, then 7.30pm once the clocks go forward
  • April and September: 8.30pm
  • May and August: 9.30pm
  • June and July: 10pm
  • October: 7.30pm, then 6.30pm once the clocks go back

Parks with several gates may start closing up to half an hour before these times.

Good to know

  • Free entry.
  • Facilities: Multi-Use Games Area.
  • Wheelchair accessible.
  • Run by Dublin City Council Parks: call 01 222 5278 with questions about the park.

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