Editing Phoenix Park (section)

===Other places of interest===
[[File:Furry Glen 3Jan2015.JPG|thumb|Furry Glen, sunset, 3 January 2015]]
* In the southwestern corner of the park is an area known as the '''Furry Glen''' which has a series of short walks centred on a small lake with birds, plants and wildlife. The jay, normally a rather shy bird, is common and conspicuous here.
* State Guest House, [[Farmleigh]], adjoins the park to the northwest.
* Headquarters of the [[Garda Síochána]], the police service of Ireland, are located in the park.
* [[St. Mary's Hospital (Phoenix Park)|St. Mary's Hospital]], originally the Royal Hibernian Military School established in 1769, the building was subsequently developed as a hospital up until 1948. In 1964 the hospital became a facility for older people and today primarily provides accommodation to dependent older persons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.myhomefromhome.ie/homes/files/St-_Mary_s_Hospital-_Phoenix_Park-_Dublin_20_0.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330181056/http://www.myhomefromhome.ie/homes/files/St-_Mary_s_Hospital-_Phoenix_Park-_Dublin_20_0.pdf |archive-date=30 March 2017 |access-date=2017-03-30 |df=dmy-all}}; [http://www.ucd.ie/medicine/lifewithus/ourcampus/clinicalcampus/stmaryshospitalphoenixparkdublin/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420180331/http://www.ucd.ie/medicine/lifewithus/ourcampus/clinicalcampus/stmaryshospitalphoenixparkdublin/|date=20 April 2017}}</ref>
* [[National Ambulance Service College]] is located at Saint Mary's Hospital on the Chapelizod side of the park. This building dates from 1766 and was formerly the Hibernian Military School.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170330181056/http://www.myhomefromhome.ie/homes/files/St-_Mary_s_Hospital-_Phoenix_Park-_Dublin_20_0.pdf St. Mary's Hospital]</ref> [[Ordnance Survey Ireland]] is located in Mountjoy House near the [[Castleknock]] Gate. The house was built in 1728 and was originally known as Mountjoy Barracks as it quartered the mounted escort of the Lord Lieutenant who resided in the Vice-Regal Lodge (now Áras an Uachtaráin).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.osi.ie/en/alist/history.aspx |title=Ordnance Survey Ireland: A Brief History |work=[[Ordnance Survey Ireland]] |access-date=24 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804180425/http://www.osi.ie/en/alist/history.aspx |archive-date= 4 August 2011 }}</ref>
* Adjoining the park to the southeast is the [[Irish Defence Forces]]' [[McKee Barracks]]. Built in 1888 as Marlborough Barracks it once housed 822 military horses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dublincity.ie/dublin-buildings/mckee-barracks |title=McKee Barracks |publisher=[[Dublin City Council]] |access-date=28 November 2017 |archive-date=30 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130211517/http://www.dublincity.ie/dublin-buildings/mckee-barracks |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Ratra House at the back of the Aras, was the home of Civil Defence Ireland since the organisation was established in 1950 until 2006 when the headquarters was decentralised to Roscrea, County Tipperary. Named Ratra House by the first president of Ireland, [[Douglas Hyde]], who retired to the house in 1945 from his presidency. He named it after his native Ratra Park in Frenchpark, County Roscommon where he had done much of his writing. Built in 1876, [[Winston Churchill]] lived there from age two to six.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.civildefence.ie/cdweb.nsf/documents/AEEB06284977F81C80256E8A003C631F |title=Ratra House – A Brief History |work=Civil Defence Ireland |access-date=22 January 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122151812/http://www.civildefence.ie/cdweb.nsf/documents/AEEB06284977F81C80256E8A003C631F|archive-date=22 January 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Grangegorman Military Cemetery]] lies just outside the walls of the park on Blackhorse Avenue.
* The park also contains several sports grounds for [[Gaelic football|football]], [[hurling]], soccer, [[cricket]] and [[polo]].
* [[Bohemian F.C.|Bohemian Football Club]] was founded in the Gate Lodge beside the North Circular Road entrance in 1890. The club played its first games in the park's Polo Grounds.
* At Conyngham Road, near the [[South Circular Road (Dublin)|South Circular Road]] junction, the regular wall takes on an unusual arch shape before levelling out again. This marks the point where the [[Liffey Bridge (Phoenix Park Tunnel)|Liffey Bridge]] enters the park via a [[Phoenix Park Tunnel|rail tunnel]] that continues on beneath the Wellington Monument. It is used regularly for [[Train#Freight trains|goods traffic]] and [[Train#Passenger trains|Passenger services]]. It was used during the Second World War for storing emergency supplies of food.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/an-irishman-s-diary-the-phoenix-park-rail-tunnel-1.2159067 |title=An Irishman's Diary: The Phoenix Park rail tunnel |last=Oram |first=Hugh |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=2019-12-23 |archive-date=23 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323115836/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/an-irishman-s-diary-the-phoenix-park-rail-tunnel-1.2159067 |url-status=live }}</ref> Iarnród Éireann opened the tunnel for commuter train traffic on 21 November 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/train-services-to-start-using-phoenix-park-tunnel-next-week-1.2867661 |title=Train services to start using Phoenix Park tunnel next week |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=2016-11-15 |archive-date=15 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115142246/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/train-services-to-start-using-phoenix-park-tunnel-next-week-1.2867661 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Phoenix Park, Dublin 8.jpg|thumb|upright|A lake in Dublin's Phoenix Park]]