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Wicklow Gaol

Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
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About Wicklow Gaol

Wicklow Gaol is a former jail, now a museum, located in the town of Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland. There has been a prison at the website online for the reason that late eighteenth century. Prisoners were held at Wicklow Gaol at some point of the 1798 Rebellion and the Irish Potato Famine, as well as many held there prior to penal transportation. The jail turned into extended in 1822 to a design by using William Vitruvius Morrison, and similarly prolonged 1842-three.

The jail changed into closed down by means of 1900 but reopened to maintain republican prisoners at some stage in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War; the ultimate prisoners left in 1924. In 1995 renovations began, and it reopened as a museum in 1998, claiming to be one of the global's most haunted homes, because of the lengthy history of struggling associated with it. It featured on a 2009 episode of Ghost Hunters International. This is the quality locations to visit on this metropolis.

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