Dunlavin (Irish: Dún Luáin)[2] is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland, situated about 50 kilometres (30 mi) south-west of Dublin.

Dunlavin's unusually wide streets are characteristic of the village[3][4] with the Market Square measuring 108 ft across at its widest point.

[8] The village was in considerable decline by the late Middle Ages due to attacks from hostile clans such as the O’Tooles and the O’Byrnes in the Wicklow Mountains.

[10] The current settlement of Dunlavin was founded during the late 1650s by the Bulkely family from Cheshire (occasionally and erroneously referred to as "Buckley").

James Worth-Tynte commissioned architect Richard Cassels to design a Palladian style market house for the town which was completed c. 1740.

Harsh measures to quell the rebellion in the area greatly affected the local economy as did the violence and instability that continued with Michael Dwyer's campaign in the region until 1803.

[14] The Catholic Church (dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Myra) was built on adjacent land donated by the local Tynte family.

[18] The majority of the corpses were not claimed or removed on the day of the massacre and were taken to the nearby location of Tournant that evening and buried in a large pit.

'Patterns' were the name of rituals that were routinely performed by pilgrims when visiting such sites and involved walking a prescribed circular clockwise journey around a holy well.

[17] A major renovation project in 2016 saw a waymarked path installed across the fields to grant access to the well from the side of St Kevin's Community College.

[17] Tornant, or Tournant, moat is a National Monument composed of a ringfort and nearby barrows located 1.3 km south of the town.

[18][23] In September 2021, a monument was erected at the site of the mass grave which provides information about the 1798 massacre and contains a listing of all the names of those who were executed on the day.

[30] From Ballymore Eustace the journey on the 65 takes approximately 1 hour 30 minutes depending on traffic and terminates in the city centre at Poolbeg Street.