A tour of Ballsbridge, within the vast Fitzwilliam estate

Private Tour Rates

Group 1 - 5 people: (weekdays) € 250 Group 1 - 5 people: (weekends) € 300 Group 6 - 7 people: € 300 Group 8 - 10 people: € 350 Group 11 - 15 people: € 455* Group 15 - 20 people: € 565* Group 21 - 25 people: € 675*

*for this group size, price includes audio headsets.

Recommended for people aged +15

Duration

Approximately 2 hours

About

Our walking tour of the Ballsbridge area starts outside the RDS and examines both the society and its illustrious history, and the curious part the society played in the Easter Rising of 1916. From there we walk west, back towards Dublin, taking in dozens of interesting sights and fragments of history – including a famous writer, who worked incognito as a librarian, and Eamon de Valera, the school master and Easter Rising Commandant who escaped execution by the skin of his teeth and went on to become Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and later President of Ireland. We’ll look at local places associated with famous figures from history and politics, from literature and from rebellion, and will even take time to look at a small handful of superb buildings, from Arts and Crafts cottages, Victorian mansions, libraries and bridges, to two iconic examples of 20th century modernist architecture. Despite the settled prosperous nature of the area, Ballsbridge was also the setting for some of the hottest and most lethal fighting during Easter Week 1916, on Northumberland Road and Haddington Road and we’ll also discuss this ferocious combat before our tour concludes.

All this and more, in just over two hours of gentle walking and relaxed discussion, around this most curious and contradictory of Dublin neighbourhoods.

We'll get in contact with you as soon as possible to arrange a meet up point.

• Tour canceled 8 days or more: full refund

• Tour canceled from 8 days to 96 hours: 85% refund

• Tour canceled from 24 hours to 96 hours: 50% refund

• Within 24 hours: no refund