The Curragh Camp (Irish: Campa an Churraigh) is an army base and military college in The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the main training centre for the Irish Defence Forces and is home to 2,000 military personnel.

The Curragh Army Camp in 1854 is meant for additional training area for the British Army was recognized as an urgent necessity by the government in London.

You can see the last British flag to fly over the Curragh Camp in 1922 - a monument in itself to Irish history. Some of the photographs from 1922 and just before the hand over to the Free State Army are fascinating. Then, there were 6,000 British Army troops and 4,000 civilians occupying or working in the camp.

In the years 1868 and 1870 the War Department, by Act of Parliament, were granted permission to build on a portion of this plain, now known as the Curragh Camp. Very soon the canvas camp was supplanted by quaint wooden huts, red with black roofs.

German internees at the Curragh Camp As the Battle of Britain raged across the skies following the capitulation of France in June 1940, the Irish state had not prepared for the possibility of paratroopers, spies and belligerent aircraft crash-landing on its soil By Luke Diver On 20 August 1940, the lack of preparedness of the Irish state was ...

About 1805, during the Napoleonic scare, an extensive camp was formed on the Curragh, but fifty years later no record of the details was extant, though the site was shown on the Ordinance Map, and could still be traced on the elevated ground, known as Long Hill.

In February 1922, Gen. Richard Mulcahy, then Minister of Defence, and later Commander in Chief of the National Army, made a scheduled visit to the Curragh Camp. The purpose of this visit was to illustrate how large and developed the military camp was compared to other establishments.

About 1805, during the Napoleonic scare, an extensive camp was formed on the Curragh, but fifty years later no record of the details was extant, though the site was shown on the Ordinance Map, and could still be traced on the elevated ground, known as Long Hill.

Curragh Camp is a military facility in County Kildare, Leinster. Curragh Camp is situated nearby to the peak Semaphore Hill , as well as near the village Cut Bush . Overview

Dec 1, 2016 · The Curragh, that flat exposed plain of 4,870 acres in County Kildare, is well-known for two things, horse racing and the army camp. Those two have sat astride local history from the earliest of ancient annals.