McKee Barracks

McKee Barracks (Irish: Dún Mhic Aoidh[1]) is a military installation near Phoenix Park in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland.

McKee Barracks
Dún Mhic Aoidh
Dublin, Ireland
Main entrance to McKee Barracks
McKee Barracks
Location within Dublin
Coordinates53.35614°N 6.29961°W / 53.35614; -6.29961
TypeBarracks
Site information
Operator Irish Army
Site history
Built1888
Built forWar Office
In use1888-Present

History

The barracks, originally named Marlborough Barracks after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and built as a cavalry barracks to house 862 military horses, were completed in 1888.[2] Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the barracks was handed over to the Irish Republican Army in 1922 and renamed McKee Barracks (after Dick McKee, a prominent IRA officer) in 1926.[2] It is now an administrative centre where various Directors of Corps are based, as well as the location of the Irish Army Equitation School.[3]

In 2016, the barracks were used to depict the main entrance to Broadmoor Asylum for the film The Professor and the Madman, while an area of the Equitation School doubled as the Oxford railway station.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Dún Óglaigh na hÉireann". Óglaigh na hÉireann. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. "McKee Barracks". Dublin City Public Libraries. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. "Equitation School - Defence Forces". Irish Defence Forces. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  4. "Take Post - Newsletter 4/2016" (PDF). The Artillery Club. 15 November 2016. p. 15. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

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