Wolfe Tone Park

Name: Wolfe Tone Park
Address: Jervis Street, Dublin 1, Jervis Street, Dublin, IE
Telephone: 01 222 5278

Overview

Wolfe Tone Park is a small civic park between Jervis Street, Wolfe Tone Street and Mary Street, in the shopping streets of Dublin's north inner city. Dublin City Council reopened it in 2022 as a green space with lawns and planting, a place to sit down between Henry Street and the Liffey.

The park is named after Theobald Wolfe Tone, the leader of the United Irishmen, who was born nearby and baptised in St Mary's Church beside the park.

History

In the 18th century the ground was a market space on the Jervis estate, laid out by Sir Humphrey Jervis. It became the graveyard of St Mary's Church, the Church of Ireland parish church where Wolfe Tone was baptised, and was used for burials until it was deconsecrated in 1966. Dublin Corporation then bought it, and the old grave slabs now line the walls around the park.

Around 2000 the council redeveloped the park as a hard-surfaced urban plaza. After a long community campaign it was redesigned again and reopened in 2022 as a greener space, with parking removed from Wolfe Tone Street and Jervis Street to give the park more room.

Getting there

The park is in Dublin 1, just off Mary Street and a short walk from Henry Street and O'Connell Street. The Jervis Luas stop (Red Line) is beside it. Nearby, Smithfield Square, St Michan's Church and the Jameson Distillery Bow St. are a few minutes' walk to the west.