Kilmainham Gaol
One candle, to last a fortnight
Photograph by Colin on Wikimedia Commons
About 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.
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