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Your Visit. Kilmainham Gaol is a very busy site and tickets must be pre-booked online. Access is by guided tour only. Tickets for the public tours are only available on https://www.kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie/ and https://heritageireland.ie/visit/places-to-visit/kilmainham-gaol/.
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The Chapel. There are two chapels inside the walls of...
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Kilmainham Gaol housed prisoners during the Irish War of Independence (1919–21) and many of the anti-treaty forces during the civil war period. Charles Stewart Parnell was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, along with most of his parliamentary colleagues, in 1881-82 when he signed the Kilmainham Treaty with William Gladstone .
A visit to Kilmainham Gaol will take you on a journey through Irish history. You will discover the stories of people held here as ordinary criminals alongside those who fought for Irish independence. From the 1798 rebellion, to the 1916 Easter Rising, the Anglo-Irish War (1919-21), to the devastation of the Irish Civil War (1922-23) all these ...
Kilmainham Gaol is one of the largest unoccupied gaols in Europe. It opened in 1796 as the new county gaol for Dublin and finally shut its doors as such in 1924. During that period it witnessed some of the most heroic and tragic events in Ireland’s emergence as a modern nation.
The Chapel. There are two chapels inside the walls of Kilmainham Gaol – one Catholic and one Protestant. Only the Catholic chapel is open to the public today. This red-walled chapel is found on the first floor (the other chapel is on the top floor, and was painted blue).
Kilmainham Gaol is built on Gallows Hill, an execution site in the 18th century on the main road to the west of Ireland from Dublin City. This site was moved in the 18th century to st. Stephen's Green on the then southern outskirts of the city.
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Dec 31, 2023 · As you might have guessed by its name, Kilmainham Gaol is located in Kilmainham… It’s a 15-minute walk from the Irish Museum of Modern Art and a 25-minute walk from both the Phoenix Park and the Guinness Storehouse .
