To Grangegorman: 18th century workhouses, prisons and asylums, and Dublin's newest university campus!

Private Tour Rates

Group 1 - 5 people: (weekdays) € 250 Group 1 - 5 people: (weekends) € 300 Group 6 - 7 people: € 300 Group 8 - 10 people: € 350 Group 11 - 15 people: € 455* Group 15 - 20 people: € 565* Group 21 - 25 people: € 675*

*for this group size, price includes audio headsets.

Recommended for people aged +15

Duration

2 hours and 45 minutes to 3 hours and 25 minutes

About

We will meet outside the front door of the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square North. Time allowing we’ll briefly explore this magnificent 18th-century mansion, today Dublin’s municipal gallery, the Hugh Lane Gallery.

From the “Hugh Lane,” we’ll walk North and West to see and discuss some of the many historic, civic, residential and ecclesiastical treasures of this district, including…

• Dublin’s most enigmatic church, the Black Church;
• Glasgow-style tenement buildings;
• Gandon’s magnificent King’s Inns;
• John Skipton Mulvaney’s sublime Broadstone station and the extraordinary transport and engineering history of this area.
• The Grangegorman area, formerly a Terra incognito, with its network of mental, health and penal institutions, hospitals, clinics, prisons, asylums and Work Houses, built from the 1700s onward, enclosed behind old high stone walls.

Among buildings, we will consider are two enormous Georgian-era structures:

• Francis Johnston’s Extraordinary Women’s Penitentiary and
• His Richmond Asylum, formerly part of a complex of Work Houses so vast it once had its own system of coinage.

A poignant tour through an area that even many Dublin people know relatively little about.

N x NW extreme Hugh Lane to Grangegorman is a long, in-depth walking tour: guests will need a reasonable degree of fitness and stamina. Please note also extra supplements (extra fees) apply.

Due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus), Dublin decoded have implemented the following cancellation and refund policies until further notice.

• Tour canceled 8 days or more: full refund

• Tour canceled from 8 days to 96 hours: 85% refund

• Tour canceled from 24 hours to 96 hours: 50% refund

• Within 24 hours: no refund