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Desmond Castle and the International Museum of Wine

Address: Cork St., Kinsale, Co. Cork
Phone: 021/477-4855
www.desmondcastle.ie

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Kinsale

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Fodor's Review:

The Desmond Castle and the International Museum of Wine are in a 15th-century fortified town house—originally a custom house—that has a dark history. It was used as a prison for French and American seamen in the 1700s, and was subsequently a jail and then a workhouse. Now it contains displays that tell the story of the wine trade and its importance to the Irish diaspora to France, America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Cost: EUR 2.90
Open: Mid-Apr.-mid-June, Tues.-Sun. 10-6; mid-June-mid-Oct., daily 10-6

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