• These websites and domain names look similar, but have no connection whatsoever to the Office of Public Works or Kilmainham Gaol.
  • Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works...
  • At Kilmainham Gaol, we paused in front of the entrance, because over the door was a striking stone carving: a five-headed serpent or dragon.
  • Kilmainham Gaol is one of the largest unoccupied prisons in Europe.
  • Kilmainham Gaol as a working prison may have been closed, but it is now a symbol of Ireland’s painful past.
  • 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.
  • Kilmainham Gaol Tour gives visitors a realistic insight into what it was like to be incarcerated at this Dublin prison.
  • We visited the Kilmainham Gaol Museum in Dublin and had a deeply memorable experience.
  • In the 1960s, a group of volunteers initiated efforts to restore Kilmainham Gaol as a museum and a national monument.
  • Though there are no car parking facilities at Kilmainham Gaol, parking is available at the nearby Irish Museum of Modern Art/Royal Hospital Kilmainham.