Larkfield, an old mill and farm in Kimmage owned by the family of Joseph Plunkett, was used as a clearing station for arms imported in the 1914 Howth gun-running for use in the 1916 Easter Rising.

IRB members with engineering skills came from England and Scotland and lived rough for three months while they manufactured bombs, bayonets and pikes for the coming Easter Rising on the site that is now the SuperValu shopping centre.

On Easter Monday, 1916, Captain George Plunkett waved down a tram with his revolver at Harold's Cross, ordered on his volunteers armed with shotguns, pikes and homemade bombs, took out his wallet and said "Fifty-two tuppenny tickets to the city centre please".

[2] The group went to Liberty Hall before being organised into four companies, and with the other volunteers, marched to seize the General Post Office.

[citation needed] The Poddle fed the millrace at the end of the pond in the grounds of the nearby monastery of Mount Argus.

In the 1950s and 1960s, this two-storey building housed St Gabriel's Boys Club, which was well supported by the local community when they staged Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

[citation needed] Lorcan O'Toole Park is the main sports ground in the area located at Stannaway Road in nearby Crumlin.

[citation needed] Kimmage was one of the two cheaper properties on the Irish version of Monopoly (along with Crumlin), but has now been removed in favour of Rathfarnham in the newer edition.

Kimmage's working-class lifestyle is recorded in a popular Irish folk song of the same name, covered by the Dubliners.