St Patrick's and Christ Church cathedral tickets: €11.50 each, the free tours, and the joint tickets with Marsh's Library and Dublinia

💡 The Short Version: St Patrick’s Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral each charge €11.50 for an adult. Neither is free. St Patrick’s runs free guided tours at 10:30 and 14:30, Monday to Saturday. A joint ticket for St Patrick’s and Marsh’s Library is €17, €2.50 less than the two separately. Dublinia is €16 online and €34 with EPIC. Marsh’s Library is open Tuesday to Saturday only. Buy from the cathedrals’ own sites: stpatrickscathedral.ie and christchurchcathedral.ie. Or book a tour: the Highlights and Hidden Gems walking tourad passes Christ Church and is from €24.

Tickets and prices

Search results for the cathedrals’ tickets include sites with the cathedrals’ names in their addresses that say on their own pages they are not the cathedrals. Prices are per person, the adult rate first.

Christ Church Cathedral and the Synod Hall, joined by a bridge over the street, seen from Winetavern Street. Photo: Robert Linsdell, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

• Joint tickets. St Patrick’s and Marsh’s Library is €17 against €19.50 separately. Dublinia and EPIC is €34 against €38 at the online prices, and the two are used over two days.
• Online. Christ Church sells tickets online and says its reduced rate is available online only.
• Go City. The Go City Dublin Pass includes St Patrick’s, Christ Church and Dublinia (Dublinia on the Explorer and All-Inclusive passes only). See Dublin Pass: is it worth it?.
• Closed days. Dublinia is shut 24 to 26 December. Marsh’s Library is shut on Sundays and bank holidays, from 13:00 on 23 December 2026 to 10:30 on 5 January 2027.

Tours worth paying for

St Patrick’s sells its own admission on GetYourGuide, and a walking tour covers the outsides of the old city for a guide’s commentary. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

St Patrick’s Cathedral self-guided admission

From €11.50 · 3,490 reviews

St Patrick’s Cathedral: Self-Guided Cathedral Admissionad is the cathedral’s own listing on GetYourGuide, at the same price as its own site. It costs the same as buying from the cathedral.

St Patrick’s Cathedral from St Patrick’s Park. Photo: Ivandor, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Highlights and Hidden Gems walking tour

From €24 · 2 hours · 4,055 reviews

Dublin: Highlights and Hidden Gems Walking Tourad is run by Original Dublin in English. It starts at 3 Crown Alley in Temple Bar, goes past Christ Church Cathedral and Dublin Castle, and finishes at Trinity College. It is a walking tour, so cathedral entry is paid separately. Cancel up to 24 hours ahead for a full refund.

What to see

The four sights fall into two pairs, and Christ Church’s own page names all of them as neighbours in the Liberties.

The nave of St Patrick’s Cathedral, looking towards the choir. Photo: Diliff, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

1. St Patrick’s Cathedral. Ireland’s national cathedral, on a site where the cathedral says Saint Patrick baptised converts over 1,500 years ago. It is on St Patrick’s Close, at the junction of Patrick Street and Upper Kevin Street. Free guided tours run Monday to Saturday at 10:30 and 14:30, and there are toilets and a small gift shop.
2. Marsh’s Library. On the same close, and Ireland’s oldest public library according to Christ Church. It is an eighteenth-century library with a hidden garden and an exhibition of the most beautiful bindings in its collection. The main library is not accessible to wheelchairs.
3. Christ Church Cathedral. It has stood at the centre of Dublin for almost 1,000 years. Services run daily, including morning prayer at 10:00 and a midday Eucharist at 12:45. Last admission for tours is 45 minutes before closing.
4. Dublinia. A Viking and medieval Dublin museum at Christchurch, with a climb up St Michael’s Tower, an original medieval tower. The public tour is about 40 minutes and a walking tour about an hour. Allow 90 minutes.

What to skip: the second cathedral, if you are short of time. The two cost the same, and the only joint ticket that saves money is St Patrick’s with Marsh’s Library.

Leather-bound volumes on the shelves at Marsh’s Library. Photo: Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Practical information

• Sunday: Christ Church opens 12:30 to 15:00 and 16:30 to 18:00. St Patrick’s keeps limited hours on Sundays, set out on its visit page, and there are no free tours that day.
• Events: Christ Church holds Christmas concerts on Tuesday 8 December at 20:30 and on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 December at 18:00 and 20:30, which are separate tickets. Dublinia runs a Halloween event from 27 to 30 October 2026 and “Whiskey & Tales: Medieval Dublin After Dark” from 26 November to 10 December 2026.
• Accessibility: St Patrick’s is wheelchair accessible, with toilets on site. Marsh’s Library’s main library is not. Christ Church publishes an access welcome guide.
• Coaches and parking: limited coach spaces are on St Patrick’s Close. Hop-on hop-off buses pass Marsh’s Library’s door.
• Nearby: the Guinness Storehouse and Pearse Lyons Distillery are in the same part of the city. Dublin Castle and the Chester Beatty are shut.

What to book before you go to Dublin has the closed days for every sight. Museums in Dublin has the free ones, free things to do in Dublin lists what costs nothing, and EPIC has the joint ticket with Dublinia. Dublin walking tours compares the guided walks. 3 days in Dublin builds the plan round the closed days. To stay near the cathedrals, see where to stay in Dublin.