Killiney Hill — Attraction in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

I like this place...it's peaceful place ofcourse at week because and weekend this place is ful with noise people...u can see bray...mountains...howth...beach...I took dart from connolly station to killiney beach ( 30min) ..then I was walking from dart station to killiney Hill 20min. The entrance to this killiney park is near toilet and coffee shop. I was walking from obelisk through forest to other place " small house church" with nice wievs. U can see dublin...aiport...poolbeg...dun laoghaire..Harbour...it's amazing place ...very old place with big rocks. I finished in down site gate in dalkey...then I was walking only few minutes to...

Absailing with Mark Honeyman down Killiney Hill. Great fun. 1992.

From the top of the hill one can view 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. Killiney Hill is circa 150 metres high. The hill supplied much of the rock to build DunLaogjaire pier and so was once higher.

The obelisk was completed in 1742 and commemorates the victims of the Famine of 1740-41. It was built as part of the general Famine relief scheme for the poor...

Great walk and nice little coffee shop.

If you have little ones, as I do, bear in mind this is an "off leash" park so there are dogs running wild everywhere, even more so than Dublin's other parks. My little boy had his pastry snatched from his hand twice, no interest from the dog's owners. No doubt all the dog owners will explain how this was his fault. Fortunately he wasn't hurt and still likes dogs. Just something to be mindful of, this is a place where dogs are more important...