History
The Plunkett family house in Kimmage was used as a clearing station for arms imported in 1914. A car load of volunteers left Dublin to meet the shipment of arms from the Aud in County Kerry just before the 1916 Easter Rising. An Irish Republican Brotherhood secret camp, the 'Kimmage Garrison' was established in the area by Joseph Mary Plunkett and his brother George Oliver Plunkett. IRB members with engineering skills over from England, and men on the run lived rough for three months in a mill on Count Plunkett's farm at Larkhill in Kimmage where they manufactured home-made bombs, bayonets and pikes. On Easter Monday, 1916, Captain George Plunkett waved down a tram at with his revolver at Harold's Cross, ordered on his ruffians armed with shotguns, pikes and homemade bombs, took out his wallet and said "Fifty-two tuppenny tickets to the city centre please". Arriving at Liberty Hall, they were organised into four companies, and with a hundred other Volunteers, marched with James Connolly and Patrick Pearse to seize the General Post Office, where they remained throughout the Rising. The mill was replaced by the SuperQuinn supermarket in modern times.
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