Spike Island, County Cork, Ireland, is a small island in the approaches to Cork. County Cork (Contae Chorcaà in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 51. ...
It was significant in the French intervention following the Glorious Revolution. In recent times it has been the site of a correctional facility for youth; it became mildly notorious when the inmates mutinied and briefly controlled the area. The term Glorious Revolution refers to the Whig-popular overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a conspiracy between some Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau. ...
In May 2006 Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has announced plans to build a new prison on the island.The €70m facility will replace Cork Prison and will hold a total of 450 inmates in separate sections for men, women and young offenders.
Cork (Irish: Corcaigh) is the second city of the Republic of Ireland.
Also the principal city of CountyCork, it is situated in the province of Munster, slightly inland from the southern coast proper.
The River Lee flows through the city, with the main part of the city centre on an island just before the Lee flows into Lough Mahon and thence to Cork Harbour, one of the world's largest natural harbours.
CORK (County of), A maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, and the largest in IRELAND, bounded on the east by the counties of Tipperary and Waterford, on the north by that of Limerick, on the west by that of Kerry, and on the south-west, south, and south-east by St.
In the city of Cork are the county gaol and house of correction, rules for the management of which were drawn up by a committee of the magistrates in 1816, which were afterwards embodied in the general act for the prisons of Ireland.
The calcareous districts comprise the greater part of the vale in the north of the Blackwater, and of the vale south-west of Cork, the vale of Imokilly extending from Midleton to Killeagh, and the vale of the Bride from Rathcormac to Tallow.
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