Herzog Park

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Herzog Park is a small village park close to the centre of Rathgar village in south Dublin. It has a playground & muga court within the park. There is a Bring Centre & Pay and Display Carpark located immediately outside Herzog parks boundary. The park is also the home of Rathgar Tennis Club (a member’s club, (available to non-members to book courts, contact Rathgar Tennis Club for further information) which has 10 all-weather floodlit tennis courts, a tennis wall and a clubhouse.

History

The site that Herzog Park sits on was once a quartz and limestone quarry. Dublin Corporation acquired the site in 1954 on a long-term lease.

The park as we see it today was set out in 1985 by the Parks' Department of Dublin Corporation. It was then known as Orwell Quarry Park. It was renamed in 1995, the year of the tri-millennium of Jerusalem, in honour of Chaim Herzog, and the then President of Israel (1983 to 1993).  He was born in Belfast and primarily raised in Dublin, the son of Ireland’s Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.