Cloverhill Prison

Location in Dublin
Location	Clondalkin, Dublin 22, Ireland
Coordinates	53°20′33″N 6°23′03″W / 53.3425°N 6.3842°W / 53.3425; -6.3842
Status	Operational
Security class	Medium security
Capacity	431
Population	424 (as of 2022)
Opened	1999
Managed by	Irish Prison Service
Governor	Tony Harris

Cloverhill Prison (Irish: Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is a remand prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates in 2022 was 424.^[1]

History

Adjacent to Wheatfield Prison, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose-built remand prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state.^[2]

It and the Dóchas Centre, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related issues.^[3]