Cathal Brugha Barracks

Cathal Brugha Barracks is an Irish Army barracks in Rathmines, Dublin. A key military base of the Irish Defence Forces, it is the headquarters of the Eastern Command, and houses the Military Archives of the Department of Defence. The barracks was originally constructed between 1810 and 1815, and named Portobello Barracks for the area in it was sited. (When Sir Francis Drake looted the city of Portobelo, Panama, died and was buried at sea in its harbour, many places in England and Ireland were commemoratively named Portobello - including part of Rathmines in 1696. The nearby canal bridge and the area became known as Portobello and thereafter, the barracks.) Originally designed as a cavalry barracks, it saw some development along these...