Riverrun Garden
Overview
Riverrun Garden is a small garden in the grounds of Phibsborough Library, by Blacquiere Bridge on the North Circular Road. It began life as a show garden at Bloom, Ireland's garden festival in the Phoenix Park, and was designed to celebrate Dublin as a UNESCO City of Literature.
Its name is the first word of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "riverrun", a fitting title for a garden outside a library.
Visiting
The garden is a calm place to sit with a book, borrowed from the library next door. It is small, so it pairs well with a visit to the library or a walk along the North Circular Road.
Getting there
Riverrun Garden is beside Phibsboro Library on the North Circular Road, Dublin 7, near Phibsborough village. The Phibsborough Luas stop (Green Line) is a short walk away. Blessington Street Basin is about ten minutes' walk, and Glasnevin Cemetery and the National Botanic Gardens are a short bus ride north.
Opening hours
Like most Dublin City Council parks, Riverrun Garden 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.
- Wheelchair accessible.
- Run by Dublin City Council Parks: call 01 222 5278 with questions about the park.
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