Palmerston Park, Dublin

[citation needed] The park is situated to the North of what was Rathmines Castle which was constructed around 1636 on the site of an earlier tower house at the top of a hill facing the River Dodder.

The castle appears to have been restored by George Radcliffe after it was badly damaged during the Battle of Rathmines and was later occupied by Captain William Shore until his death in 1668.

[2] In 1746, the castle was leased to Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet by Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston.

[3] It housed a boys school by 1789 ran by Reverend Charles Barry and was later demolished around 1840 and replaced with Palmerston Park.

[5][6] This castellated house was itself demolished in the mid 1960s to make way for a new Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines.