Reviews of New Geneva Barracks. (Museum) in Waterford (Waterford).

New Geneva Barracks

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Geneva Barracks, Crooke, Passage East, Co. Waterford

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J. “. M.

A sizeable walled area with some original buildings but probably on private land now. Likely to have been a place of considerable sadness and some brutality so unlikely to be cherished by the people.

p. R.

Geneva Barracks was originally built to house a colony of gold and silver smiths from Geneva in Switzerland. They were Huegenos, protestants who were been persecuted by the French Catholics. The king of England offered them refuge in a charter. This involved setting up a small city near Passage East to cater for the Genevese Heugenots in the 16th century. However after a much effort the city was built but was never used as a base for Heugenot crafts. Instead the arguments between The Crown and the Heugenots, relating particularly to autonomy, and the change in the political landscape at home in Switzerland, meant that Geneva Barracks as an industrial city, The first Industrial Estate never materialised. It was later refitted with an extra 5 feet added to the walls and used as a military base and prison after the 1798 rebellion. It was used a collecting point for dissidents and criminals and republicans who were mainly deported to Van Demons Land and other British outposts. Many people died here in squalid conditions while awaiting deportation, and many more perished on the journey. For all sailing out of Passage East would be the last anyone of them would have seen of their native home.