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Dublin ....hidden gems

  • 28-01-2015 11:56pm
    #1
    MrBinbetweener
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Am livin in dublin over 25 yrs...seen most places (i.e bray head,howth,dun laoghaire pier,) just curious if there are other great places to see and do ...always looking for nice days out


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  • #2
    LaHaine
    Registered Users Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭LaHaine


    MrBinbetweener wrote: »
    Am livin in dublin over 25 yrs...seen most places (i.e bray head,howth,dun laoghaire pier,) just curious if there are other great places to see and do ...always looking for nice days out

    Most of the museums are free and well worth a visit..


  • #3
    lc180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭lc180


    MrBinbetweener wrote: »
    Am livin in dublin over 25 yrs...seen most places (i.e bray head,howth,dun laoghaire pier,) just curious if there are other great places to see and do ...always looking for nice days out

    Maybe not that off the radar but I find the War Memorial Gardens are a great place to go for a nice walk and clear the head after a shi**y day.

    Its beautiful and never really too busy but I like it that way so don't tell anyone!


  • #4
    ElizKenny
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭ElizKenny


    Some ideas here.

    Put "www." in front of them

    heritageireland.ie/en/Info/HeritageCards/

    glendalough.ie/transport/by-bus/

    tripadvisor.ie/Attractions-g186605-Activities-Dublin_County_Dublin.html


  • #5
    ElizKenny
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭ElizKenny


    tripadvisor.ie/Travel_Guide-g186605-Dublin_County_Dublin.html


  • #6
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,265 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Fond of a good walk in the Botanic Gardens followed by a pint in Kavanagh's the gravediggers.


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  • #7
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    The Little Museum of Dublin is actually way more enjoyable than I ever thought it would be.

    Make sure you catch the tour


  • #8
    greentea is just wrong
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭greentea is just wrong


    The "Dead Zoo" is quite cool, and free in also :-)


  • #9
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Casino in Marino.

    Great tour and a gem of a place!


  • #10
    Howard the Duck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭Howard the Duck


    Just recently went to the Chester Beatty Museum, thought it was brilliant. Watch the video about him before you start, he was a very interesting man


  • #11
    Donal_in_Cork
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Donal_in_Cork


    Check out travelbuddy.mobi


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  • #12
    househero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭househero


    I love how reluctant we are to tell anybody else about great things, is like we are a country of bad sharers... I will continue the well established tradition and recommend somewhere crap so the yanks fill the place to the gills and leave me to my secret pleasures. The wax museum is terrible enough to recommend it to farangs. If your Irish, dont go haahahaha


  • #13
    Donal_in_Cork
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Donal_in_Cork


    @ househero,

    The new Wax Museum+ is worth a visit.

    It's also interesting to go down stairs and see the vaults which are part of the original fittings of the building. There's about a dozen (-ish) doors to the individual vault rooms that are bank vault/safe doors; steel and about a foot thick. I've got images of the days when there was nothing but cash in the old banks, and this is where it was kept.


  • #14
    Donal_in_Cork
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Donal_in_Cork


    I'd also recommend the Irish Whiskey Museum. And not just for the tasting at the end of the tour...


  • #15
    Holy BoBo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 14 ✭Holy BoBo


    Collins Baracks


  • #16
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    The crypts at St.Michans church.

    When we were kids it was thought the mummified remains were crusader knights.

    Its an eerie place:

    http://www.stmichans.com/index.php/the-crypts/about


  • #17
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,868 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    The crypts at St.Michans church.

    When we were kids it was thought the mummified remains were crusader knights.

    Its an eerie place:

    http://www.stmichans.com/index.php/the-crypts/about

    Was there last saturday morning with the kids. Very good for passing an hour and cheap as well!!


  • #18
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Well its not exactly hidden, but its a gem. I used to love the place.

    Kehoes. South Anne street.

    https://pubsandsnugsofireland.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/kehoes-dublin/


  • #19
    SEANoftheDEAD
    Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭SEANoftheDEAD


    Not Dublin city centre, but the Dublin/Wicklow mountains have some amazing hidden gems.

    The German Graveyard: http://www.glencree.ie/site/german_cemetary.htm

    Lough Tay (Guinness Lake): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Tay

    Love these spots.


  • #20
    sm213
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭sm213


    Ticknock is lovely.
    Great for a nice walk.
    Amazing views over Dublin.


  • #21
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    The crypts at St.Michans church.

    When we were kids it was thought the mummified remains were crusader knights.

    Its an eerie place:

    http://www.stmichans.com/index.php/the-crypts/about

    Would ye stop, they'll all be done there now :mad:


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  • #22
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Can't go wrong with Kilmainham Gaol. Surprised nobody has mentioned it so far.


  • #23
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Killiney Hill, Killiney beach, Whiterock and Dalkey are great walking areas, then the Queens Pub in Dalkey for food.

    Johnnie Foxes pub.

    +1 For the War memorial gardens in Inchicore, although they're small enough, but you could continue along the Liffey through the park up to Chapelizod I believe.

    The South Wall pier in Ringsend.... only walked down there once.
    Not quite as gentrified as Dun Laoghaire pier though!

    +1 for the Botonic gardens, nice walks around there, just tricky getting parking in the car park, so might have to park outside the row of shops near the entrance.

    The Zoo.

    Marley Park.
    Has a decent kids playground and apparently on Saturdays I think, a little stream train track for kids is opened up.

    I haven't been to Malahide Castle, but might be worth a go.


  • #24
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    SEANoftheDEAD wrote: »
    Not Dublin city centre, but the Dublin/Wicklow mountains have some amazing hidden gems.

    The German Graveyard: http://www.glencree.ie/site/german_cemetary.htm

    Lough Tay (Guinness Lake): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Tay

    Love these spots.

    Lough Tay is stunning on a good day.
    There's a few spots where you can park the car and just lie on the grassy hill overlooking the valley. I think there are buses that will bring you up there, possibly starting from Bray ? But I used to cycle or drive up there.


  • #25
    Daisy78
    Registered Users Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Daisy78


    Strictly speaking not Dublin but definitely accessible from there is the Sculpture Garden in Roundwood. Absolutely beautiful setting with some thought provoking sculpture. Not something Id reccomend for kids though as some of the pieces are genuinely quite frightening! Some lovely places nearby for a spot of lunch too.


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