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Saint Enda's Park

Parks in South Dublin (county)Pearse familyRathfarnham
Yew hedge, formal garden of Pearse Museum
Yew hedge, formal garden of Pearse Museum

St Enda's Park (Irish: Páirc Naomh Éanna) is a large public park in Rathfarnham in Ireland. The park, which is approximately 20 hectares (49.4 acres) in size, contains the Pearse Museum and is managed by the Office of Public Works.

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Saint Enda's Park
Emmet’s Walk, South Dublin

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Emmet’s Walk
D14 V5W4 South Dublin, Rathfarnham
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Yew hedge, formal garden of Pearse Museum
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Pearse Museum
Pearse Museum

The Pearse Museum (Irish: Músaem na bPiarsach) is dedicated to the memory of Patrick Pearse and his brother, William. Patrick Pearse was an educationalist and nationalist who was executed for his part in the 1916 Rising. The museum is situated in St. Enda's Park in the suburb of Rathfarnham on the south side of Dublin, Ireland. It was formerly an Irish speaking school named St. Enda's. Originally Pearse's school was set up in Ranelagh on 8 September 1908. It moved to Rathfarnham in 1910. After Pearse was executed for his part take in the 1916 rising, and due to decreasing numbers and increasing financial worries, the school closed in 1935. After Padraig Pearse's sister (Margaret Mary Pearse) died in 1968, St. Enda's and its grounds were handed over to the state, and the school house is now a museum devoted to the Pearse brothers. The museum contains reconstructions of many of the original rooms, including Pearse's study, the family sitting room, the school art gallery, the school museum and one of the dormitories. There is also a gallery devoted exclusively to the sculpture of William Pearse. Visitors can also visit a nature study room in the courtyard behind the school house where examples of Irish plants and animals can be found. The museum is an 18th-century house (built after 1786) situated in a parkland setting: from 1840 to 1857 it was the home of Richard Moore, Attorney General for Ireland and judge. The museum was closed for renovations in May 2006 and re-opened to the public on 28 November 2008. The museum is open seven days a week and admission is free.

Nutgrove

Alternate uses: Nutgrove, St HelensNutgrove (Irish: Ceathrú an Notaigh) is an area in Churchtown, County Dublin. It is a suburban area at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Churchtown and Rathfarnham around the Nutgrove Shopping Centre. It used to be the home of HB, an ice cream company in Ireland. HB was originally an abbreviation for Hughes Brothers' Dairy, now produced by Unilever and part of the Heartbrand. HB Dairies was demolished in 2005 and replaced with several new retail units, apartments and office space. Tenants in the new units include Homebase Hardware, Harvey Normans, an Aldi supermarket and Harry Coreys Furniture. Nutgrove has a very young population. The area's Loreto Park opposite Nutgrove Shopping Centre often hosts a circus during the summer months. Loreto Park hosts home games of Leicester Celtic and Nutgrove Celtic. Leicester Celtic also have a floodlit, all-weather pitch located off the Barton Road Extension close to Grange Manor and Grange Downs. Its most famous inhabitant was William Domville Handcock, the eldest son of William Elias Handcock and a descendant of William Handcock (Westmeath politician)|William Handcock, who came to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell's army during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and settled at Twyford in County Westmeath. He was born on 2 September 1830, and having been educated at Nutgrove School, Rathfarnham, and at Trinity College, Dublin, took his degree in 1852. As a magistrate for the County Dublin, Mr. Handcock constantly presided on the Tallaght Petty Sessions bench, of which he was a much-valued member. He was also a Guardian of the South Dublin Union, and a frequent attendant at the meetings of that board. For many years he was an active supporter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He died on 5 June 1887.