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Arbour Hill Cemetery

The military cemetery at Arbour Hill is the last resting place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Among those buried here are Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and Major John Mc Bride. The leaders were executed in Kilmainham Gaol and their bodies later transported to Arbour Hill.

 

The graves are located under a low mound on a terrace of Wicklow granite in what was once the old prison yard. The gravesite is surrounded by a limestone wall on which their names are inscribed in Irish and English. On the prison wall opposite the gravesite is a plaque with the names of other people who gave their lives in 1916.

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Uploaded on January 4, 2010
Taken on January 4, 2010