Our first stop was the Cork City Gaol, which is a a victorian Jail.With a special emphasis on history & culture, 19th-Century crime, punishment, and social history, a trip to Cork City Gaol is a must. Offering a grimly realistic look at prisoner life, the impressive audio system allows you to hear the shuffling of prisoner’s feet and the coughs of the sick inmates, while life-like characters in the cells add a three-dimensional element. Architecturally, the Georgian/Gothic building has a number of particularly pleasant and unusual features. Indeed, from the outside it looks more like a castle than a purpose-built prison.
The next stop was the Muckross House and Gardens. This nineteenth century Victorian mansion is set against the
stunning beauty of Killarney National Park. The house stands close to the
shores of Muckross Lake, one of Killarney's three lakes, famed world wide for
their splendour and beauty. As a focal point within Killarney National Park,
Muckross House is the ideal base from which to explore this landscape.
Muckross House was built for Henry Arthur Herbert and his
wife, the water-colourist Mary Balfour Herbert. This was actually the fourth
house that successive generations of the Herbert family had occupied at
Muckross over a period of almost two hundred years. William Burn, the
well-known Scottish architect, was responsible for its design. Building
commenced in 1839 and was completed in 1843.
I am now at our hotel for the night with glitchy wifi..... whats new right? lol.... but i'll upload the rest of the pictures once I'm back in Waterford!
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