Stone of Remembrance
The Stone of Remembrance is a standardised design for war memorials that was designed in 1917 by the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Imperial War Graves Commission.- Type: Monument
- Description: memorials designed by Edwin Lutyens for the Imperial War Graves Commission
- Inscription: “THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Irish National War Memorial Gardens and Kilmainham Gaol.
Irish National War Memorial Gardens
Park
Photo: Osioni, Public domain.
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918", out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war.
Kilmainham Gaol
Photo: Nol Aders, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilmainham Gaol is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the Government of Ireland. Kilmainham Gaol is situated 550 metres southeast of Stone of Remembrance.
Richmond Park
Stadium
Photo: Gyposaint, Public domain.
Richmond Park is a football stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Situated in the Dublin suburb of Inchicore, it is the home ground of League of Ireland side St Patrick's Athletic. Richmond Park is situated 350 metres south of Stone of Remembrance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inchicore and Rialto.
Inchicore
Suburb
Photo: JP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inchicore is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Located approximately 5 kilometres west of the city centre, Inchicore was originally a small village separate from Dublin.
Rialto
Suburb
Photo: Deitel55, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rialto is an inner suburb of Dublin, situated on the city's southside. The area takes its name from the Harcourt Bridge, which was commonly known as the Rialto Bridge due to its resemblance to the shape of the bridge of that name in Venice.
Oxmantown
Suburb
Oxmantown was a suburb on the opposite bank of the Liffey from Dublin, in what is now the city's Northside. It was founded in the 12th century by Hiberno-Norse Dubliners or "Ostmen" who either migrated voluntarily or were expelled from inside of the city walls of Dublin after the Anglo-Norman invasion and the 1171 beheading of Hasculf, the last Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin by the invading army.
Stone of Remembrance
- Categories: memorial stone, war memorial, and historic site
- Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.34399° or 53° 20′ 38″ northLongitude
-6.31703° or 6° 19′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C5M8MVM+H5OpenStreetMap ID
way 26684537OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q2426679
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Japanese—“Stone of Remembrance” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Stone of Remembrance”
- French: “Pierre du souvenir”
- French: “Pierre du Souvenir”
- Hebrew: “מצבת הזיכרון”
- Japanese: “追憶の石碑”
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