Cork City Gaol Cork City Gaol is located in an area called Sundays Well. The Gaol was built in 1824. It served as a prison for both males and females of all ages. Later it became the city's women's prison. During the nineteenth century conditions within the prison were wretched. Prisoners slept on straw, were fed with bread and gruel and whipped for breaking prison rules. Most prisoners ended up in the City Gaol for minor offences. There are stories of the city's poor committing crimes in order to be put in the prison, where at least they would be fed. In 1922 the gaol was used to house republican prisoners during the Civil War. These were the last people imprisoned here. Cork Gaol closed soon after.

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Location: Sundays Well, Cork

Photographer: Mark Callanan

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