IMMA Discover Map
Starting Point Set out on the IMMA Heritage Trail from the Main IMMA reception desk. Our dedicated staff members are available to provide guidance and answer any questions you may have.
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The East Gate The East Gate is IMMA's main entrance. The museum, founded in 1991 at Royal Hospital Kilmainham, occupies historic grounds. Originally 110 acres, now 48 acres due to railway development in 1844.
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Adjutant General’s Office Architect Francis Johnston designed the Adjutant General's building for administrative offices, housing the Chief Adjutant overseeing personnel record administration and preservation under the Commander of the forces.
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Royal Hospital Built 1680-1684, Royal Hospital Kilmainham aided retired soldiers, averting begging and violence. Social solution like Chelsea Hospital. Site chosen in Phoenix Park, originally Knights Hospitaller land, established 1662.
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The Chapel Window Royal Hospital's striking chapel window, gifted by Queen Victoria in 1849 after visit. Designed by Michael O’Conner, depicts history and Hospitaller Priory.
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Deputy Master’s House In the 1930s, Colonel Fitz Brase and family resided in Deputy Master's house. As Irish Army band leader, he lived there with keen photographer daughter, Mona, who captured the house and garden.
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Master’s Garden Completed alongside the Royal Hospital, the Master’s Garden, typical of its time, transformed from pleasure to market garden, supplying vegetables and fruits for hospital residents. The fruit trees still produce fruit every year.
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Master’s Quarters The Masters Quarters at the west end of the North Range formed a palatial dwelling for the Master of the hospital with all the comforts and staff expected for such a grand domestic setting.
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The Out Buildings Extensive out buildings once stood on the south and west side of the Royal Hospital. These buildings were where the day to day activity of the Hospital staff were carried out.
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The Hospital Fields The Hospital Fields once stretched all the way down to the banks of the Liffey. The fields were used for grazing cattle and officers horses. Now referred to as The Meadow the open green space is used for music events, concerts.
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Stables The stables curtain wall encountered along the Western Avenue were built according to a design by R.J. Stirling in the 1860’s after several of the out buildings, including stables.
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Deputy Master’s Garden & Keepers House The walled garden known as the Deputy Master’s Garden is present in the earliest maps that include the Royal Hospital Grounds, and it appears in the oldest known painting of the Hospital by Thomas Bate.
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Officers Cemetery The Officers’ Cemetery was the designated burial ground for all residents of the Royal Hospital from 1680 until in the early 19th century when a new military cemetery was established.
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The Richmond Tower The West Gate of the IMMA has an imposing tower built originally in 1811, located on Victoria quay at the end of Watling Street. In 1847 the tower was taken apart carefully and relocated, block by block, to the Western Entrance of the Royal Hospital.
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Bully’s Acre Bully’s Acre, once the main graveyard for Dublin city, presents one of the most fascinating locations on the IMMA campus. It became part of the lands of the Royal Hospital in 1680.
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Military Cemetary In 1795 the Royal Hospital claimed ownership over this land and enclosed it with a stone wall. It was developed as a Military Cemetery, exclusively used for pensioned Privates and Non-commissioned Officers in 1880.
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Viking Graves Just over the wall along the North side of the meadow is where the largest Viking graveyard outside of Scandinavia was excavated in the hospital fields during the building of the Great Southern and Western Railway.
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  Starting Point 1 The East Gate 2 Adjutant General’s Office 3 Royal Hospital 4 The Chapel Window 5 Deputy Master’s House 6 Master’s Garden 7 Master’s Quarters 8 The Out Buildings 9 The Hospital Fields 10 Stables 11 Deputy Master’s Garden & Keepers House 12 Officers Cemetery 13 The Richmond Tower 14 Bully's Acre 15 Military Cemetary 16 Viking Graves
There are a variety of surfaces on the paths in IMMA and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham grounds. Due to the natural terrain of the grounds some paths have steps /slopes, that may become slippery in wet weather. The sunken terraces in the formal garden are accessed by steps and therefore unsuitable for wheelchair users.