Dating back to a house built around 1700, Bushy Park is a large suburban park in Terenure on the south side of Dublin, covering some twenty hectares of woodland, ponds and playing fields. The original residence, first known as Bushe's House after its builder Arthur Bushe, was renamed Bushy Park by a later owner in 1772, possibly after the royal park of the same name in London. The estate grew when Abraham Wilkinson added almost forty hectares in 1791 and gave the property as a dowry when his da.....

Once the demesne of the wealthy La Touche banking family, Marlay Park is a large public park at Rathfarnham, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains on the southern edge of the city. The estate takes its name from Elizabeth Marlay, whose husband David La Touche bought the property shortly after their marriage in the 1760s and gave it her family name. The La Touches rebuilt the house and laid out the grounds in the fashionable landscape style of the day, enclosing parkland with curving belts of tree.....