Kilmainham Gaol Cross - photo by Thomas Wright.

Photograph by © Thomas J. Wright

Stonebreakers Yard - Kilmainham Gaol,
Inchicore Rd., Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland.

Kilmainham was a functioning prison from 1796-1924 and is most famous for holding the leaders of the 1916 Rising, who were executed in Stonebreakers Yard in the prison.  A Cross marks the place where the badly injured James Connolly was executed, tied to a chair, by the British for his part in failed Easter Rising.

 

 

 


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Credits:
Stonebreakers Yard, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland - photo by © Thomas Wright.  This image may not be reproduced without prior written permission by the photographer.

 

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