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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1850
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Irish Prison ServicePopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1850
Region
Dublin
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington1877–1946 · activistJohanna Mary Sheehy-Skeffington (née Sheehy; 24 May 1877 â 20 April 1946) was a suffragette and Irish nationalist.
- Seamus Twomey1919–1989 · political activist
Seamus Twomey (Irish: Séamus à Tuama; 5 November 1919 â 12 September 1989) was an Irish republican activist, militant, and twice chief of staff of the Provisional IRA.
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Thomas Ashe1885–1917 · politicianThomas Patrick Ashe (Irish: Tomás Pádraig Ãghas; 12 January 1885 â 25 September 1917) was an Irish revolutionary and politician.
Antonin Artaud1896–1948 · playwrightAntoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (; French: [aÊto]; 4 September 1896 â 4 March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud (French pronunciation: [ÉÌtÉnÉÌ aÊto]), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media.
Seán MacBride1904–1988 · diplomatSeán MacBride (26 January 1904 â 15 January 1988) was an Irish Republican activist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 1936 to 1937.
Maire Comerford1893–1982 · writerMary Eva Comerford (2 June 1893 â 15 December 1982) was an Irish republican from County Wexford.
Madeleine ffrench Mullen1880–1944 · revolutionaryMadeleine ffrench-Mullen (30 December 1880 â 26 May 1944) was an Irish revolutionary and labour activist who took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. Ffrench-Mullen was a member of the radical nationalist women's organisation Inghinidhe na hÃireann.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
North Circular Road, Dublin
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Data completeness
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Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q917842)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Mountjoy Prison. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mountjoy-prison
Chicago
"Mountjoy Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mountjoy-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-mountjoy-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Mountjoy Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mountjoy-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}