Lovely park and such parks are severely lacking in Cork City. Having lived in Dublin, and experiencing the abundance of city centre parks, we in Cork are being left wanting. Nevertheless, this park has a lovely playground, a nice cafe, and a well kept water attraction. Named after Edward Fitzgerald, an older Lord Mayor of Cork, the park has recently been refurbished and redesigned with some of the garden architecture/features created by renowned garden architect Dermot Gavin. The park tends to get overcrowded in summer and the playground is designed in such a way that parents cannot keep an eye on younger children when they go to the opposite side. This makes losing younger children quite problematic in this playground based on my experience. Obviously, that's is not a problem with older children. The city badly needs more parks like this both on the north and south side. The whole area has a nice laid back atmosphere and there's a lovely cafe (the natural foods bakery) providing high quality food and coffee at one end of the park. Worth a visit for sure but perhaps nicer in the autumn when it doesn't feel so crowded.