Tolka Park

Tolka Park football pitch home stadium and training ground for Shelbourne Football Club

Tolka Park is situated on the Richmond Road in Drumcondra on Dublin’s Northside. It is easily accessible, being just off the Drumcondra Road, which is the main road to the airport from the city.

Driving to Tolka

For those with a SatNav, the co-ordinates are 53.367828, -6.251300

From city centre

Follow the signs for the airport, which will bring you out along Dorset Street which becomes Drumcondra Road after you have crossed the canal. Continue on under the railway bridge. As you continue driving, you’ll pass houses on your left which are set back from the road, behind trees. After these houses, you go through a set of traffic lights. Richmond Road is the next turn right, at the next set of lights, which are just after you have passed over the Tolka Bridge

From the north of the city

Follow the Swords Road from the airport towards the city. This becomes Drumcondra Road after the Whitehall junction. Continue straight, passing the Skylon Hotel on your right. Go through some pedestrian lights and Tolka Park is left at the next lights, on Richmond Road.

Match days

There are no public Car Parks in the vicinity of Tolka Park. There is, however, plenty of on street parking in the area. Fans are requested to refrain from parking in front of, or blocking, any driveways or laneways, parking in an illegal manner on Richmond Road or Grace Park Road, or parking at all in Grace Park Gardens or Grace Park Avenue.

Getting there by train

Local commuter train to Drumcondra Station.Come out of station, turn left, walk appox 700 meters, turn right onto Richmond Road. Tolka Park is a couple of hundred yards down the road.

Getting there by bus

There are many buses that go along Drumcondra Road. Get off at Kennedy’s Pub, then cross the bridge and turn right into Richmond Road. Tolka Park is a couple of hundred yards down the road.

Bus routes

From O’Connell Street 1, 11, 13, 16, 44

From Lwr. Abbey Street 33, 41, 41b, 41c