Airfield

Very nice interior and atmosphere. I just like to hordes of screaming children at the weekend. Vegetarian/​vegan option could have been better. Nice service tho.

For the price — this place was excellent.. Not just great for kids but for adults also. .
The house was interesting to view … there was only a small variety of animals. great for kids or if you live in the city and never get to see even one sheep. (like myself) if you are from the Country then it probably wouldn’t be that interesting to you.
Facilities are great … toilets provided throughout the place and plenty of hand washing stations for when after you touched the animals.
Lovely for a ramble. parking available and playground for the kids.
Highly recommend

Can’t believe I haven’t been here before. They must have spent a fortune doing it up, and it looks amazing! Even in winter with little growing, it’s a stunning place to walk around with kids. Can’t wait to return in spring.
Café is beautiful setting & food was very good quality. Staff very helpful & nice. I’ve no doubt this will be a tourist ‘must see’ in years to come. Think it was € 20 for family ticket (2 under 3yrs), which I think is exceptional value.
Maximum respect to the family, they could have cashed in & walked away from the place years ago. Well done!

Airfield is a 38 acre working farm, right in Dundrum! The best part is the farmyard area — if you get there for milking times, you can have a look at how it all happens, and also help the staff collect the eggs from the 50 something laying hens. There are also sheep, pigs, chickens and donkeys; very exciting for any city kids to spend time with!

Poor service. Have to pay for car parking before buying tickets, then get ripped off in the café. Avoid.

Oh what a day it was… I needed to evade the house cleaning binge my better looking half was on so what better way than to remove myself from the situation entirely and bring the little one to the farm.
Great location just over 5 minutes stroll from Dundrum shopping centre and the luas stop.
It began with a cupcake, (it was awesome) then continued with rain. Luckily I was well prepared with wellies and waterproofs… for the child. I unfortunately looked like a dog who fell in a well by the end of the day. The chickens were first and full of life and head bobbing joy, then on to the calves. This is where the fun started. My daughter began to harass the young things to say moo… «SAY MOO COWS!!! SAYYYY MOOOOOOOO» they proceeded to chew and blink… unimpressed. Everybody else however got a few giggles out of it.
Then the pigs. Where the girl said «DO NOT under any circumstances put your fingers in. pigs WILL EAT that meat.» My fearless soldier girl promptly put her entire hand in and started stroking the BIG and I mean BIG mammy pigs head whilst I nearly took a heart attack pulling her hand back out.
Then the goats were the best part… it was raining heavily by now… there was no shelter nearby… but giving the goats grass from our hands was the only thing she wanted to do, not even the lure of the ever amazing Mcdonalds could pull the 2 year old away from the beasts.
All in all twas an odd day but I loved it! They also had some beautiful gardens and displays… Well worth a visit for all the family members… unless they are on a spring cleaning blitz. Then leave them at home, it worked for me!

Airfield Trust. A little gem on the south side of the city that many seem to have yet discover.
The grounds (which you pay to enter but I would not begrudge that at all) has farm animals, a vintage car house, a sculpted garden, an unsculpted garden, some cheeky but friendly goats and vegetable patches. They do school days, talks, classes (for children and adults), in winter they have a Green Santa and in summer the occasional music event. Its a great place to bring young children to explore nature and see the animals (chickens, goats, pigs, ducks, etc).
The house is free to enter, thats where the café is. This is a lovely place to bring an aunt for coffee and cake however It may be pricey if your a family on a budget. Just bring a picnic and eat in the picnic area instead (which is in the grounds).
Over all I really like what The Airfield Trust have being working to achieve here and I would recommend exploring the grounds for yourself.
Or even just wander to the website to get started

Picture it. The sun is shining… yeah I know, that is the most unlikely thing about this entire scenario, it’s a Saturday, Q has put aside a couple of hours where he might go fly fishing or indeed just sit on the couch and scratch some of the more interesting bits of his anatomy…
Then I wake up and realise that although the sun in indeed shining there’s not a hope in hell of getting 5 mins to myself, so I do the next best thing, pack the family off to Airfield house so I can at least wander the country lanes and smoke while my son tires himself out looking at all the beasties.
This is a wonderful resource to have right on our doorstep — essentially, it is a farm but fixed to be public-​friendly, there are lots of animals, gardens, orchards and walks through little lanes that make you think you are in the middle of no where. All in all a thoroughly pleasant afternoon out and by the time we get back to the car junior is so tired he is asleep in seconds. Oh happy happy day indeed!
…they have a café here too:

Fairly small and lackluster. Only worth a trip in early spring right after the baby lambs are born. It seems overpriced for what it is.