Cloverhill Prison is located on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin

Clondalkin

-Today:Modern Clondalkin is a busy satellite town of Dublin, with a population of 43,929 in 2006. Retail facilities include Tesco Ireland- and Dunnes Stores-led shopping centres, and Aldi and Lidl stores on the Fonthill Road and New Nangor Road respectively, and the village centre is a base for...

, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates resident in 2009 was 438.

History

Adjacent to Wheatfield Prison

Wheatfield Prison

Wheatfield Prison is closed, medium security prison located on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It receives male prisoners of 17 years of age and older from the counties of Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Wexford and Wicklow...

, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose built remand

Remand

The term remand may be used to describe an action by an appellate court in which it remands, or sends back, a case to the trial court or lower appellate court for action....

 prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state.

It and the Dóchas Centre

Dóchas Centre

The Dóchas Centre is a closed, medium security prison for females aged 18 years and over located in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. It is also the committal prison for females committed on remand or sentenced from all Courts outside the Munster area of Ireland.Dóchas is one of two women's prisons in...

, a womens' prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related issues.