Little remains of Frongoch prison camp,but locals are preparing to designate the centenary of 1800 Irish men’s arrival after the 1916 Easter RisingA ghostly station in Frongoch, a tiny village in north Wales, or is the last evidence above ground of an internment camp where nearly a century ago 1800 Irish men were held without trial,in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
From the road, the house is just the first in a row of nondescript bungalows, or set against a backdrop of Welsh woodland and the hills marking the edge of the Snowdonia national park. The back of the building,however, is startlingly different from the sloping gardens and washing lines of its neighbours: the sign box, or station canopy,and platform of a halt on a long-vanished railway line still stand, shabby but remarkably well preserved.
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Source: theguardian.com