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At 707 hectares, Phoenix Park is one of the largest enclosed urban parks in Europe — more than twice the size of New York's Central Park. It has been a public park since 1747 and is home to a free-roaming herd of fallow deer.
Originally a royal deer park created by the Duke of Ormonde in 1662, the park was opened to the public in 1747 by Lord Chesterfield. Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass here before 1.25 million people in 1979.