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Spike Island
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Spike Island is a 42-hectare island in Cork Harbour dominated by an early 19th-century bastion fortress (Fort Mitchel) that later housed a large convict prison. The site comprises massive stone curtain walls, gun emplacements, casemates, barrack blocks and magazines clustered around a central parade ground and gateway.
Its prime
1850
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1850
What Spike Island looked like in its prime.
A low, fortress silhouette of grey dressed stone and brick: a continuous high curtain wall pierced by a central semicircular-arched gateway beneath a raised flagpole, broad ramparts and artillery platforms, rows of small barred windows in slate-roofed barrack ranges, and buttressed casemate faces with arched embrasures. The interior contains a broad gravelled parade ground ringed by two-storey stone blocks, bombproof vaulted casemates, and earth-backed magazines, all tightly packed on the island's leveled summit.
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8 places to explore in 1850.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Spike Island, including 4 interiors: parade ground inside the gateway, bombproof vaulted casemate / magazine interior, officers' mess hall interior and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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