Beggars Bush Barracks

Beggars Bush Barracks
Beggars Bush, Dublin
The former central garrison headquarters at Beggars Bush Barracks
Site information
Type	Barracks
Operator	British Army (1827–1922) National Army (1922) Irish Army (1922–1929)
Location
Coordinates
Site history
Built	1827
Built for	War Office
In use	1827–1929

Beggars Bush Barracks was a British Army barracks located at Beggars Bush in Dublin, Ireland.

History

The barracks were designed as a training depot for the British Army and were completed in 1827, built on lands received from George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke. Two squadrons of the South Irish Horse were formed at the barracks in the early 20th century, which were mobilised at the barracks in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front.

Beggars Bush Barracks were the first barracks to be handed over to the Irish Republican Army in January 1922. The barracks then became the new headquarters of the National Army. Erskine Childers, a leading IRA revolutionary, was executed at the barracks on 24 November 1922 after conviction by an Irish military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins.

The barracks were decommissioned in 1929 and handed over to the "Gaeltacht Industries Depot" which had responsibility for marketing goods produced in Ireland. The site is now used by various other Government Departments. The Irish Labour History Society Museum is based in the former central garrison headquarters and the National Print Museum is based in the former Garrison Chapel.