Disabled Parking in Fingal
Fingal County Council has mapped the location of public Disabled Car Parking spaces in Fingal. These include spaces on streets, at community facilities, in retail areas and at transport facilities.
The mapped spaces are available in two formats – via Interactive map and via Sat-Nav downloads.
Sat-Nav Download of Disabled Car Parking Spaces
You can download locations of disabled parking spaces in Fingal to your Garmin or TomTom Sat Nav.
Interactive Map of Disabled Car Parking Spaces
Click here for a map to display locations of Disabled Parking spaces throughout Fingal.
From the map, it is possible to search by area (Swords, Malahide, Blanchardstown, etc.) to view locations of spaces and their adjacent services (hairdresser, supermarket, train etc.).
It is also possible to search by a service and view the associated Disabled Parking spaces.
Fingal County Council Offices
Fingal County Council Offices located at County Hall, Swords; Grove Road, Blanchardstown; Council Offices in Baldoyle and Balbriggan Town Hall are all wheelchair accessible. Facilities in the buildings include wheelchair accessible toilets & induction loops at public counters. Provision is also made for visually impaired persons. If you plan to come to any of these buildings and have any special accessibility requirements, please contact us at 01-890 5000 and we will assist you.
If you have a query or are experiencing any problems in accessing the services, streets or parks operated or owned by Fingal County Council, please email details of your query to disabilityact2005@fingalcoco.ie.
If you have any access issues with a commercial service i.e. a cafe, shop or restaurant, please email your query to disabilityact2005@fingalcoco.ie or buildingcontrol@fingalcoco.ie.
Accessibility in Fingal County Libraries
Fingal County Council provides library services to almost 250,000 citizens in the county. Our public libraries at Balbriggan, Baldoyle, Blanchardstown, Garristown, Howth, Malahide and Swords carry a wide range of accessible material such as large print books, audio-books and CDs/DVDs, and are fully wheelchair accessible, with disabled toilets also provided. Libraries are fitted with induction loops, and provision is made for visually impaired persons.
Blanchardstown Library also provides an Assistive Technology Centre that includes the following equipment:
- 4 height adjustable workstations
- Large-key keyboards
- 4 touch screens
- Large size mice
- 4 headphones with microphones
- 2 Maltron keyboards (right and left hand)
- 1 Epson scanner.
The library also provides Jaws Professional, Kurzweil 1000, Kurzweil 3000, Zoomtext Magnifier and Internet access software for those with impaired vision.
Fingal Mobile Library Service provides a library service to those who are not within easy reach of a branch library. The Mobile Service currently calls at 52 different locations in Fingal including housing estates, rural villages and National Schools. For further information please contact mobilelibraries@fingalcoco.ie or tel: 01-822 1564
Fingal Housebound Library Service was established to cater for those who for reasons of age, incapacity or illness are unable to leave home/hospital or other care facilities to access a public library. This service also operates to facilities such as nursing homes, hospitals, residential and non-residential care facilities as well as rehabilitation centres. For further information, contact Lynda Beasley at lynda.beasley@fingalcoco.ie or Marian Caulfield at marian.caulfield@fingalcoco.ie or email houseboundlibrary@fingalcoco.ie or tel: 1850 211 466.
Fingal County Council's full library catalogue is available online at www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Library
Accessibility in Fingal Arts and Community Centres
Fingal County Council Arts Centres, Draíocht in Blanchardstown, and the Séamus Ennis Centre in Naul are both wheelchair accessible, and provide physically accessible toilets. For information on events at these centres please see www.draoicht.com and www.seamusenniscentre.com.
Our Community Centres at Mulhuddart, Mountview and Corduff in Dublin 15 and at Donabate are also wheelchair accessible and provide physically accessible toilets. Sporting Fingal Powerchair Soccer team train at Corduff Sports and Community centre. For further information please see www.sportingfingal.ie
Acessibility in Fingal Heritage Properties and Playgrounds
Fingal County Council has a number of regional and local parks and playgrounds, all of which are wheelchair accessible. Our Heritage properties at Ardgillan Castle, Newbridge House & Demesne, Malahide Castle and Swords Castle, are by their nature, limiting for wheelchair users and also for soem people with mobility problems. Audio visual tours of Ardgillan Castle, Newbridge House and Skerries Mills may be taken by visitors to those properties who are unable to take the guided tour. You can take the on-line audio visual tour of Ardgillan Castle here at www.fingalcoco.ie/ArdgillanVirtualTourWeb/tour.html.
Some of our playgrounds include adaptive play equipment. Unfortunately not all parks have public toilets, and some parks have limited seating so please check our full list of parks and playgrounds and the facilities in each before you travel on www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Parks
Our Heritage properties at Ardgillan Castle, Newbridge House & Demesne, Malahide Castle and Swords Castle, are by their nature, limiting for wheelchair users and also for some people with mobility problems. If you have specific accessible requirements, please do not hesitate to contact the properties before planning a visit. Contact telephone numbers and email addresses are available at www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Parks/ParksHeritageProperties
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