St. Anne’s Park, Clontarf – Restoration

City council is inviting tenders for a “conservation strategy” for the follies. Might be restored yet.

Title: Conservation Strategy for the Follies in Saint Anne’s Park
Published by: Dublin City Council
Publication Date: 27/03/2009

Abstract: Dublin City Council wishes to commission a detailed strategy for the conservation of the follies within the Historic Core Area of Saint Anne’s Park. This strategy is funded by the Parks and Landscape Services Division, the Dublin City Heritage Plan and The Heritage Council.

This project arises from an action in the Management Plan for Saint Anne’s Park, prepared by Murray Associates in 2006 for the Parks and Landscape Services Division and the Dublin City Heritage Plan. The Management Plan has a broad scope balancing the diverse aspects of regional park management including: Vegetation; Conservation and Archaeology; Physical Geography; Boundary issues; Circulation; Use Profiling; Sports; Staffing. Saint Anne’s Park is synonymous with sporting activity, recreational walking, The Red Stables, and the Rose Garden, which are all well maintained and in responsible management.

The Management Plan affirms the importance of the Historic Core Area as a designed landscape and identifies the critical need for conservation of the follies and garden features. The designed landscape/”wilderness” landscape, and numerous follies therein, located in the area to the northeast of the house site are in an altogether more compromised state. The conservation and recovery of these follies is identified as a high priority within the management strategy for the park. It is the intention of this project to gather vital information on the follies required to undertake a conservation works programme.

Has anybody any knowledge of the train tracks and buffers at the rear of St. Annes House in St. Annes Park prior to its demolition in 1968.
Thank you.

It’d be a great concert venue.