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Kilmainham Gaol

Built in 1792, the vast and eerie Kilmainharn Gaol is Ireland’s most famous disused prison.lt held mariyfamous Nationalists and Republicans, including members of the Society of United Irishmen (1798), Young relanders (1 840s),Fenians and land agitators, Parnell and Davitt.The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed here,The prison was closed in 1924 and stood emptyfor manyyears before a dedicated band of volunteers set aboutits restora tion in the early 1960s.

Now open to the public, the jail offers a fascinating insight into the history of Irish Republicanism and imprisonment. With such a colourful and often gruesome history, it is inevitable that Kilmainham Gaol is rumoured to have numerous ghosts. It was during the restoration that strange and unusual happenings were first reported. A man painting in the dungeon area of the prison was blasted against a wall by a huge gust of wind and after wards refused ever to work in the gaol again. Another vol unteer decorating the ‘1916 Corridor’ heard plodding footsteps behind him but when he turned around, even though the footsteps continued past him, he was aston ished to find no one else in the corridor.

Today, tours are offered of this dark, historical struc ture that stands as a reminder of the troubles in Ireland. Visitors have been known to pause terrified on the thresh old, refusing to go one step further. Others have reported feeling an evil and fearsome presence around the balcony of the chapel. Jedburgh |