Community Gardens

TU Dublin’s outdoor garden spaces are vibrant, inclusive environments where students, staff, and local communities can connect with nature, learn, collaborate, and support biodiversity. Across our six garden spaces, opportunities for learning, wellbeing, biodiversity, and social inclusion are at the heart of their purpose, with food growing centred in the Community Garden on the Blanchardstown campus.

The GLAS@TU Dublin Community Garden, was developed on the Blanchardstown campus in partnership with Global Action Plan and Fingal County Council.

All our garden spaces support the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reflect TU Dublin’s commitment to societal engagement.

Each garden space provides a unique experience. Click on one below to find out more.

TU Dublin students working in the Grangegorman Community Garden planting potatoes

The Grangegorman Community Garden Pilot

The Grangegorman Community Garden on the Grangegorman campus was a collaborative garden project between TU Dublin, Dublin 7 Educate Together National School (D7 ETNS), the Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA), Workday, with support from Hooke and MacDonald.

Lee Geoghegan - Head Gardener at the GLAS community garden at TU Dublin.

GLAS at TU Dublin Community Garden

Located on the grounds of the TU Dublin Blanchardstown campus, the environmental education and social inclusion garden project is a collaborative effort between Fingal County Council, Global Action Plan Ireland, TU Dublin and the local community.

Tallaght Elemental Garden

From learning how to save seeds, take cuttings, grow plants & make compost, to spending some time away from work or studies, this teaching, library & student-led project provides an opportunity to connect with nature, relax, learn and innovate. Find it under the yellow stairs. All welcome.

two wooden benches and two wooden planter boxes in a cobble locked courtyard of a building

Aungier Street Micro Garden

The Aungier Street micro-garden project transformed an overlooked courtyard into a living, shared space. It enhances biodiversity, creates a shared outdoor classroom for teaching, workshops and community events and provided a welcoming space for gatherings, conversation and wellbeing.

shot taken below the canopy of silver birch trees against blue sky

Forest Bathing Garden, Tallaght

Sustainable Energy Engineering students along with staff have been working on a range of group projects that are focused on enhancing the biodiversity of an underused space to turn it into a haven for native plant, insect and animal species.

courtyard garden with two large boulders in foreground and mix of trees in background, ground is brown and autumnal

Peace Garden, Tallaght

This is a memorial garden for remembering members of staff and students who have passed away. It is used by students, colleagues and parents of deceased children. Find it under the green stairs.