A number of attractions around Ireland are set to become free to visit this Wednesday.
The Office of Public Works (OPW) offers free access to a number of heritage sites across Ireland on the first Wednesday of every month, including some in and around Dublin. Free tickets to these attractions are allocated on a first come, first serve basis visitors will not be able to book online beforehand.
Three Dublin sites will be made free to visit this Wednesday and every first Wednesday of the month this year. These are Casino Marino, Farmleigh House and Estate and Rathfarnham Castle. Casino Marino was designed by Sir William Chambers as a pleasure house for James Caulfeild, first earl of Charlemont.
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Located just off the Malahide Road, it contains 16 rooms, each of which is finely decorated with rich and rare designs. Farmleigh, meanwhile, is a 78-acre estate inside Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Edward Cecil Guinness, great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, constructed Farmleigh around a smaller Georgian house in the 1880s.
Many of the artworks he collected at the time remain in the house as well as a collection of rare books and manuscripts in the library. Rathfarnham Castle dates back to the Elizabethan period and houses family portraits by Angelica Kauffman, Sir Peter Lely, and Hugh Douglas Hamilton and regularly hosts exhibition.
Other heritage sites around Ireland that will be free to visit on these designated days include Donegal Castle, Ennis Friary in Clare, Portumna Castle and Gardens in Galway, Battle of the Boyne in Meath, The John F. Kennedy Arboretum in Wexford, Old Mellifont Abbey in Louth, Céide Fields in Mayo, Boyle Abbey in Roscommon and Glendalough Visitor Centre in Wicklow.
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