Barracks in Unknown Townland

Dean Street Barracks A 19th-century barracks on Dean Street was recorded in 2025 in the ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage: The online mapping, inventorying and recording of the Army Barracks of Ireland, 1690-1921' a project that was funded by the North South Research Programme 2022-2024 and co-led by University College Dublin and The Open University' (Forbes and McGrath 2025).  The barracks was described in the inventory of the ‘Army Barracks of Ireland - Our Shared Military Heritage, 1690-1921’ as follows; ‘From 1801 to at least 1830 there was an infantry barracks at the corner of Dean Street in the Coombe. It was a leasehold and was likely a pre-existing structure converted for military use. In 1801 it was noted as having capacity for three officers and 98 soldiers. Although listed for sale or lease in 1820, two years later the capacity was recorded as two officers and 60 infantrymen. It is not clear exactly which building or buildings may have been the location of the barracks as nothing remains of the early nineteenth-century structures in the area’.   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on description taken from inventory of the ‘Army Barracks of Ireland - Our Shared Military Heritage, 1690-1921   Date of Compilation: 11 November 2025