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Gough Barracks was a military installation in Armagh, Northern Ireland. ==History== The barracks were first established on the site in 1773 and became the depot of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the 1880s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=No pomp or ceremony as keys for Gough Barracks are handed back )〕 During the Second World War the barracks were used as military accommodation by the United States Army.〔 In 1954 an Irish Republican Army unit raided the barracks and seized 340 rifles, 50 Sten guns, 12 Bren guns and a number of small arms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=This day in Irish History 12 June 1954: The IRA Raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh )〕 The barracks were closed as depot of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in April 1960.〔 In 1970 Gough Barracks were re-opened as the Headquarters for 2nd Battalion, Ulster Defence Regiment: the battalion remained there until they moved out to more modern facilities Drumadd Barracks in 1975.〔Potter, p. 27〕 The premises were then vacated completely by the British Army in 1976. A nuclear bunker was established at the site during the Cold War and it continues to be used as a policing base by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
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