Killiney Hill Park

Park with a scenic views

Killiney Hill

Killiney Hill and Dalkey Hill are both part of Killiney Hill Park, a small public park overlooking the villages of Dalkey to the north and Killiney to the west. In 1887 it was dedicated to public use by Prince Albert Victor of Wales, in memory of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, and called Victoria Hill. The park is crossed by various walking tracks, and with its spectacular views in all directions, is a popular destination for walkers and hikers from the surrounding areas.

Bray Head and Wicklow

Killiney Hill (Irish: Cnoc Chill Iníon Léinín) is the southernmost of the two hills which form the southern boundary of Dublin Bay (the other being Dalkey Hill). Crowned by an obelisk, the hill is 153 meters high and offers beautiful views over the surrounding areas : Dublin to the northwest; the Irish Sea and the mountains of Wales (on a clear day) to the east and southeast; and Bray Head and the Wicklow Mountains to the south. The hill was higher in the past but material was removed from the summit for the construction of the pier at Dún Laoghaire.

Dublin Bay

Killiney Hill stands in the former townland of Mount Mapas, or Scalpwilliam, first mentioned under that name in the beginning of the 17th century. Former residents included Captain Edward Maunsell, who served as High Sheriff of the County Dublin in 1755, followed by Colonel the Hon. Henry Loftus, MP for Bannow, County Wexford. Loftus planted the hill and built nearby roads. In 1790 Lord Clonmell lived here and constructed a park which he filled with deer.

The Obelisk bears the inscription: “Last year being hard with the poor, walks about these hills and this were erected by John Mapas, June 1742.”

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Famous Irish Quotes

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

America’s first Irish-Catholic president, was a son of two families whose roots stretched back to Ireland.

Near Carrickmacross

The Fitzgerald family was from the rural County Limerick village of Bruff in western Ireland. Between 1846 and 1855, some of the Fitzgeralds migrated to America to escape the devastating potato famine. During the same period that the Fitzgeralds migrated to America, Patrick Kennedy, a cooper, left his ancestral home in Dunganstown, County Wexford, and sailed for the United States. John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963.

Lough Naglack

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Wicklow

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Donaghmoyne Church

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Sunset

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Wicklow

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Seagull

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Irish Landscape

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Lisanisk Lake

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Sunset

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Wicklow

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime. Speech at Limerick, Ireland (29 June 1963)