Prison service to retain old Cork Prison site due to overcrowding

'Very disappointing' that site not being developed for other purposes

Adjacent to Cork Prison, the site of the old prison 'remains of strategic interest to the Irish Prison Service'. Picture: Dan Linehan

The old Cork Prison site is to be retained by the Irish Prison Service (IPS) because of increasing prisoner numbers.

The IPS has held discussions with a number of bodies “as to possible future uses of the old Cork Prison site in recent years”. These included with the Land Development Agency (LDA) with a view to locating housing in the old site on Rathmore Rd in the northeast of Cork City.