What is recorded here
Custume Barracks. Temporary accommodation for 1000 cavalry and 1500 infantry built in 1691. Cavalry stables, riding house, infantry barracks of four blocks built c. 1697 and demolished by 1793 (Murtagh 1994, 10-11). Garda Station and government offices built in 1935-47 on partial site of barracks facing onto Barrack's St. and the church of Saints Peter and Paul built 1930 on SE corner of barracks.
Compiled by: Rachel Barrett
Date of upload: 15 October 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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