Arbour Hill Chnoc an Arbhair | |
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Inner city area | |
![]() Clockwise from top: National Museum of Ireland atCollins Barracks; Arbour Hill terraced housing; the cloisters at Collins Barracks; an independent publishing house and bookshop | |
Coordinates:53°21′01″N6°17′0″W / 53.35028°N 6.28333°W /53.35028; -6.28333 | |
Country | Ireland |
County | Dublin |
City | Dublin |
Postal district |
Arbour Hill (Irish:Cnoc an Arbhair[1]) is an area ofDublin within the inner city on theNorthside of theRiver Liffey, in theDublin 7 postal district. Arbour Hill, the road of the same name, runs west fromBlackhall Place inStoneybatter, and separatesCollins Barracks, now hosting part of theNational Museum of Ireland, to the south fromArbour Hill Prison to the north,[2] whose graveyard includes the burial plot of the signatories of theEaster Proclamation and other leaders executed after the1916 Rising.St Bricin's Military Hospital, formerly the King George V Hospital, is also located in Arbour Hill.
Arbour Hill is derived from the IrishCnoc an Arbhair which means "corn hill". The area was owned by Christ Church Cathedral during the medieval period and was used to store corn.[2] The area first appears on a map in 1603 as "Earber-hill".[3]
As part of his commissioned symphonic work "Irishmen and Irishwomen", the composer Vincent Kennedy included a movement titled "Arbour Hill".[4] This movement is a tribute to the Easter Rising participants buried at Arbour Hill.[5]
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