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Cork City Gaol

Restored Jail Complete With Furnished Cells

Convent Avenue
Sunday's Well
Cork, Munster


Neighborhood: City - south

Phone: +353 21 430 5022
Fax: +353 21 430 7230
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A twenty-minute walk west of the city center will take you up to the restored and atmospheric City Gaol, complete with furnished cells. Both the exhibition and multimedia display trace the lives of individual inmates imprisoned here during the 19th and 20th centuries. Conditions were miserable: as one punishment, for example, prisoners were made to run on a human treadmill that was used to grind grain. There is also a cafe in the Gaol which employs a somewhat amusing gimmick: visitors are "free" to choose between sampling a Victorian prisoner's fare or the prison governor's menu. Which one would you choose?

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When we visited Cork, the gaol was the only thing we really wanted to see. When you ask for a guided...
Reviewed by:An from on Jun 19 2007

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