Irishtown Nature Park, Dublin
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| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| OSI/OSNI grid | O 202 332 |
| Coordinates | 53°20′10″N 6°12′1″W / 53.33611°N 6.20028°W |
| Area | 21.60 acres |
Irishtown Nature Park (Irish: Páirc Dhúlra an Bhaile Ghaelaigh)[1] is a small man-made[2] park between Irishtown and Sandymount Strand in Dublin, Ireland. The park contains several kilometres of walking trails along the Poolbeg Peninsula.
The park was devised during a building boom in the 1970s, where rubble and waste were dumped in its current location. The Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association suggested turning the waste dump into a nature reserve. During the 1980s, Dublin Corporation, along with local residents, developed the park and planted seeds, trees, and tall grasses.[3]
During the Wood Quay build and excavation in the early 1980s, up to 30 lorry loads of potentially significant archaeological rubble were dumped in the original location of the nature park.[4]