Phoenix Park and Dublin's zoo
At an 18 -minute walk from Collins Barracks is the Dublin Zoo in Phoenix Park.This is the largest closed urban park in Europe, about 1,750 hectares, which is surprising that Dublin is a relatively small city.Hundreds of deer walks in the park, the president of the official residence of Ireland (Árás an Uachtaráin) is here with Deerfield, a beautiful eighteenth-century property house addressed to the American ambassador to Ireland.It is the center for visitors located near an seventeenth-century towers, Ashtown Castle, for those who want to know more about the park and its surroundings.In the distance, the Castleknock was gone at the end of the year and on an area of about 78 hectares Farmleigh House dating from the 1800s and purchased by the Irish state of the Guinness family in 1999.

