{"id":80742,"date":"2015-02-03T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=80742"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:18:23","slug":"hole-wall-bar-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/hole-wall-bar-armagh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hole In The Wall Bar Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hole In The Wall Bar Armagh, one of the City of Armagh&#8217;s historic venues&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>A great bar to watch the six nations &#038; ulster games, <\/p>\n<p>Email: theholeinthewallbar@btconnect.com<br \/>\nTelephone: 028 3752 3515<\/p>\n<p>The hole In The Wall Bar<br \/>\n9 Market St<br \/>\nArmagh<br \/>\nCounty Armagh<br \/>\nBT61 7BW<\/p>\n<p>Until the present Court House was erected at North end of the Mall in 1809. Justice was dispensed in the Sessions house situated in Market Street facing the Market House.<\/p>\n<p>It was apparently built by 1615 as its mentioned as the meeting place of an inquisition commissioned a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Armagh historian James Stuart in his &#8220;Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh&#8221; published in Newry in 1819 described the old Goal under it as, &#8220;A dismal suite of subterraneous apartments, directly under the sessions house. A flight of stone stairs led down to these gloomy caverns, where debtors and felons suffered a kind of semi-inhumation, the wards of this doleful dungeon were not only arched over with heavy and solid mason-work abutted in front and rear walls of seven feet thickness, but encircled and completely secured with a kind of massy reticulated iron work&#8221;, that is a strong iron fence.<\/p>\n<p>So dark and bleak and strongly protected was this prison that it became popularly known as, &#8220;The Hole in the Wall&#8221; and the name has remained in common currency right down to the present day although the goal was moved to the south end of the Mall in 1780.<\/p>\n<p>Today the building, greatly altered over the years, offers not misery and disgrace, but hospitality and good cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hole In The Wall Bar Armagh, one of the City of Armagh&#8217;s historic venues&#8230;.. A great bar to watch the six nations &#038; ulster games, Email: theholeinthewallbar@btconnect.com Telephone: 028 3752 3515 The hole In The Wall Bar 9 Market St Armagh County Armagh BT61 7BW Until the present Court House was erected at North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17191,5918,12472,5871,5743,14325],"class_list":["post-80742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-armagh","tag-bar","tag-hole","tag-in","tag-the","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}