Arbour Hill Cemetery


This small cemetery is the final resting place of all 14 of the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. The burial ground is plain, with the 14 names inscribed in stone. Beside the graves is a cenotaph bearing the Easter Proclamation, a focal point for official and national commemorations. There are excellent guided tours during summer.

The front of the cemetery incongruously, but poignantly, contains the graves of British personnel killed in the War of Independence. Here, in the oldest part of the cemetery, as the gravestones toppled, they were lined up against the boundary walls where they still stand solemnly today.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby attractions

2. Jameson Distillery Bow Street

0.46 MILES

Smithfield’s biggest draw is devoted to uisce beatha (ish-kuh ba-ha, ‘the water of life’); that's Irish for whiskey. To its more serious devotees, that is…

3. St Patrick's Tower

0.47 MILES

St Patrick’s Tower is Europe’s tallest smock windmill (with a revolving top). It was built in 1757 to power the Roe Distillery, which by 1887 covered 7…

4. People's Garden

0.5 MILES

The People's Garden dates from 1864 and is made up of 9 hectares of Victorian-era horticulture.

5. Roe & Co Distillery

0.51 MILES

The newest kid in Dublin’s distillery district, Roe & Co took up residence in 2019 in the old Guinness Power Station, a cool brick building opposite the…

6. Pearse Lyons Distillery

0.51 MILES

This boutique distillery opened in the former St James' Church in the summer of 2017, distilling small-batch, craft Irish whiskey. You have a choice of…

7. Garda Síochána Headquarters

0.53 MILES

This large Victorian building behind Dublin Zoo, on the edge of the park, is the 19th-century Garda Síochána Headquarters, designed by Benjamin Woodward …

8. St Michan’s Church

0.55 MILES

Macabre remains are the main attraction at this church, which was founded by the Danes in 1095 and named after one of their saints. Among the ‘attractions…