Croke Park Tour and GAA Museum · Croke Park roof, Dublin 3
A guide walks you along a walkway on the roof of Croke Park, 17 storeys above the pitch, with six stops that look out over all of Dublin, and the GAA Museum is included. Pick it for the view: on a clear day you can see from the Dublin Mountains to the docks, and straight down onto the grass.
The Kellogg's Skyline is a walkway fixed to the roof of Croke Park. Croke Park calls it Dublin's highest open-viewing platform, and its FAQ puts it 44 metres above the ground. You check in at the Skyline desk inside the GAA Museum, get a safety briefing and a harness, then climb about 100 steps to the roof. The tour takes around 1.5 hours, briefing and climb included.
Up top there are six stops. From the Hogan side you look north to Glasnevin Cemetery and the Botanic Gardens. To the west sit Phoenix Park, Kilmainham Gaol and the Guinness Storehouse. South you get the Dublin Mountains, Dublin Castle, Trinity College and the Spire, then Dun Laoghaire harbour and the Aviva Stadium. One stop hangs over the pitch for the view straight down, and the last one faces the docks and the Poolbeg chimneys. Each guest has a personal audio guide, so you hear the guide over the wind.
It is not for everyone. The health and safety rules set a minimum age of 12 and turn away anyone over 24 weeks pregnant, anyone who has had surgery in the last six months and anyone on crutches. Vertigo and fear of heights are on the list of conditions to tell your guide about. If that sounds like you, take the Stadium Tour at ground level instead: it covers the dressing rooms and the tunnel, which the Skyline does not.
Enter from St Joseph's Avenue off Clonliffe Road and find the Skyline desk inside the GAA Museum under the Cusack Stand.
Your guide stores bags in a locked room, demonstrates the harness and the audio guide and explains how to move on the walkway.
Up the stairs to the roof. You climb back down the same way at the end.
North to Glasnevin, west to Phoenix Park and the Guinness Storehouse, south to the mountains and the city centre, east to the docks, and the pitch straight below.
The two great cups, the Hall of Fame and the Games Zone. On the last tour of the day, see the museum first: it closes at 17:00.
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Croke Park describes it as 17 storeys high, and its FAQ gives 44 metres above the ground. The walkway runs around the roof of the stadium, with one viewpoint hanging over the pitch.
Yes. The minimum age is 12, with no exceptions. Families with younger children should book the Stadium Tour, which has no minimum age.
No. They are two separate tours with separate tickets. Both include the GAA Museum, so you only need one of them to see the museum.
Tours go ahead in most weather, so dress for it. Croke Park only cancels in extreme conditions on the advice of its health and safety officer, and pre-booked guests then get a full refund.
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A guided walk on the roof of Croke Park, 17 storeys up, with views across Dublin and the GAA Museum included.
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