Barracks in Unknown Townland

Linen Hall Barracks   A 19th-century barracks on Lisburn 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; ‘The Linen Hall complex was a series of buildings that opened in 1728 under the aegis of the Linen Board, a consortium of linen merchants and traders. It remained in operation as a central hub for linen trade until the opening of a competing linen hall in Belfast in 1783. Ensuing decline in the Dublin linen industry led to the abolition of the Linen Board in 1828, though the complex continued to be used for trading purposes. Parts of it may have been used as a barracks as early as 1848 and again in the 1870s. While it was noted as an unused barracks in both the 1890s and in 1907, the Army Pay Corps was stationed there at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising when it was occupied by the Irish Volunteers. The building was set on fire to prevent the British Army from reoccupying the site. The fire destroyed the majority of the complex, though some small elements remain extant as part of the Technological University of Dublin campus'.   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