Arbour Hill Prison
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Arbour Hill Prison is a prison
and military cemetery located in the Arbour Hill area near Heuston Station in the centre of Dublin, Ireland
. The prison is the national centre for male sex offenders.
and Frederick Clarendon
and opened on its present site in 1848, to house military prisoners. The church has an unusual entrance porch with stairs leading to twin galleries for visitors in the nave and transept. Another unusual feature is the celtic round tower which erupts from a rectangular base. It opened as a civilian prison in 1975.
The adjoining Church of the Sacred Heart, which is the prison chapel for Arbour Hill prison, is maintained by the Department of Defence. At the rear of the church lies the old cemetery, where lie the remains of British military personnel who died in the Dublin area in the 19th and early 20th century.
An interesting feature is the tunnel which runs from St Bricans Military Hospital, via the Prison to the former Collins Barracks.
A doorway beside the 1916 memorial gives access to the Irish United Nations Veterans' Association house and memorial garden.
. Among those buried there are Patrick Pearse
, James Connolly
and Major John MacBride
. The leaders were executed in Kilmainham Gaol
and their bodies were transported to Arbour Hill for burial.
The graves are located under a low mound on a terrace of Wicklow granite
in what was once the old prison yard. The grave site is surrounded by a limestone
wall on which the names are inscribed in Irish and English. On the prison wall opposite the grave site is a plaque with the names of other people who were killed in 1916.
at Collins Barracks
, Dublin 7. The area is also the site of the Arbour Hill Military Barracks.
Bus Route(s): Nos. 37, 38, 39 from city centre.
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
and military cemetery located in the Arbour Hill area near Heuston Station in the centre of Dublin, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
. The prison is the national centre for male sex offenders.
Architecture
The prison was designed by Sir Joshua JebbJoshua Jebb
Sir Joshua Jebb was a Royal Engineer and the British Surveyor-General of convict prisons.He participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812, and surveyed a route between Ottawa River and Kingston where Lake Ontario flows into Saint Lawrence River...
and Frederick Clarendon
Frederick Clarendon
Frederick Villiers Clarendon was an Irish Architect noted for his design work on a number of large public buildings in Dublin, including the Natural History Museum and Arbour Hill Prison.- Life :...
and opened on its present site in 1848, to house military prisoners. The church has an unusual entrance porch with stairs leading to twin galleries for visitors in the nave and transept. Another unusual feature is the celtic round tower which erupts from a rectangular base. It opened as a civilian prison in 1975.
The adjoining Church of the Sacred Heart, which is the prison chapel for Arbour Hill prison, is maintained by the Department of Defence. At the rear of the church lies the old cemetery, where lie the remains of British military personnel who died in the Dublin area in the 19th and early 20th century.
An interesting feature is the tunnel which runs from St Bricans Military Hospital, via the Prison to the former Collins Barracks.
A doorway beside the 1916 memorial gives access to the Irish United Nations Veterans' Association house and memorial garden.
1916 leaders
The military cemetery at this prison is the burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter RisingEaster Rising
The Easter Rising was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War...
. Among those buried there are Patrick Pearse
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916...
, James Connolly
James Connolly
James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents and spoke with a Scottish accent throughout his life. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of...
and Major John MacBride
John MacBride
Major John MacBride was an Irish republican executed for participation in the 1916 Easter Rising.-Early life:...
. The leaders were executed in Kilmainham Gaol
Kilmainham Gaol
Kilmainham Gaol is a former prison, located in Kilmainham in Dublin, which is now a museum. It has been run since the mid-1980s by the Office of Public Works , an Irish Government agency...
and their bodies were transported to Arbour Hill for burial.
The graves are located under a low mound on a terrace of Wicklow granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
in what was once the old prison yard. The grave site is surrounded by a limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
wall on which the names are inscribed in Irish and English. On the prison wall opposite the grave site is a plaque with the names of other people who were killed in 1916.
Location
The prison is located on Arbour Hill at the rear of the National Museum of IrelandNational Museum of Ireland
The National Museum of Ireland is the national museum in Ireland. It has three branches in Dublin and one in County Mayo, with a strong emphasis on Irish art, culture and natural history.-Archaeology:...
at Collins Barracks
Collins Barracks (Dublin)
Collins Barracks is a former military barracks in the Arbour Hill area of Dublin, Ireland. The buildings are now the National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History...
, Dublin 7. The area is also the site of the Arbour Hill Military Barracks.
Bus Route(s): Nos. 37, 38, 39 from city centre.