Croke Park, Gaelic games stadium in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Croke Park is a sports stadium in Drumcondra, north Dublin, with four main stands and over 82,000 seats spread across a 4.5‑hectare site. The complex also includes a museum, a tour route through the stands, and a walkway along the stadium roof with views across the city.

The site began in 1913 when the Gaelic Athletic Association bought the land from Frank Dineen. On November 21, 1920, British soldiers shot 14 civilians during a Gaelic football match, a day remembered as Bloody Sunday.

The home of Gaelic games comes alive on match days when thousands walk through the streets wearing county colors and singing traditional songs. The name honors Archbishop Thomas Croke, an early supporter of the Irish sports movement in the late 1800s.

Visitors can choose between three experiences: the regular stadium tour, the rooftop Skyline walk, and the GAA Museum collection. Tours are usually closed on match days, so planning a visit on a non‑match day or weekday works best.

The ground was still called the City and Suburban Racecourse, or Jones' Road sports ground, when Tex Austin staged the Dublin Rodeo there from 18 to 24 August 1924: two sell-out shows a day for seven days, with cowboys and cowgirls from Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Australia, and British Pathe filming some of the events.