Wicklow Gaol
Wicklow Gaol is a former prison, now a museum, located in the town of Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
History
Prison
There has been a prison on the site since the late eighteenth century. Prisoners were held at Wicklow Gaol during the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine, as well as many held there prior to penal transportation.The prison was extended in 1822 to a design by William Vitruvius Morrison, and further extended 1842-3.
The prison in 1877 was demoted to the status of ‘bridewell’, a prison for petty offenders awaiting trial, and closed down by 1900, but reopened in 1918 to hold republican prisoners during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War ; the last prisoners left in 1924.