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Cork City Gaol

Sunday's Well, Cork

A prison that looks like a fairy-tale castle.

Cork City Gaol was built in the 1820s and looks like a castle on a hillside. It held prisoners for a century, including women and children, and rebels during the fight for Irish independence, among them the future writer Frank O'Connor.

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When
1824–1923
Where
51.8990, -8.4970
Group
Gibbets & executions

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