Kilmainham Gaol

Built in 1796 as the County of Dublin Gaol and called the New Gaol to distinguish it from the noisome dungeon a few hundred metres away that it replaced. There was no segregation: men, women and children were held up to five in a cell, roughly twenty-eight square metres, with a single candle for light and heat that had to last a fortnight. Public hangings took place at the front until the 1820s, and a small hanging cell was added in 1891. The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were imprisoned and executed here.