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HM Prison Maze

prison in Northern Ireland
Organization prison Q1478908

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
prison
Native label
An Cheis Fhada[13]

Status and dates

Inception
August 9, 1971[8]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
September 29, 2000[9]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 54.489°, -6.107°[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
County Down[2]

Industry and activity

Has use
prison[7]
More facts +7
Date of official closure
September 29, 2000[15]
Date of official opening
August 9, 1971[12]
Different from
Maze[14]
Historic county
County Down[16]
Operator
Northern Ireland Prison Service[4]
Significant event
Maze Prison escape[11]
Structure replaced by
Balmoral Park, Eikon Exhibition Centre[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en His Majesty's Prison Maze en HM Prison Maze en Long Kesh en Maze Prison en The Maze en Her Majesty's Prison Maze de H-Blocks de Her Majesty's Prison Maze de Long Kesh de Maze-Gefängnis el Φυλακή Μέιζ es Prision de Maze es Prisión de Maze fr Long Kesh fr Prison de Maze fr Prison du Maze ja メイズ刑務所 ko HM 교도소 메이즈 pl Maze ru Мэйз
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
249022850
GND ID
4138825-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Maze Prison - geograph - 341034.jpg ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
hm-prison-maze-long-kesh
BBC Things ID
4d15505e-3384-4f8b-9545-e7028b7883dd
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Maze-prison
Freebase ID
/m/09hq3
GeoNames ID
7626682
Logainm ID
1418359
MusicBrainz place ID
67cc8614-443e-4381-b6b9-4d45dec566b4
Open Library subject ID
long_kesh_(prison)
SNARC ID
Hannelore Rönsch
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Topic's main category
Category:HM Prison Maze
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
288234
📚 Sources · 1
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🔗 Connections
Located in this place 2
Maze Prison escape, blanket protest
Country 1
United Kingdom
Has use 1
prison
Historic county 1
County Down
Instance of 1
prison
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
County Down
Named after 1
Anti H-Block
Operator 1
Northern Ireland Prison Service
Significant event 1
Maze Prison escape
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Summary

HM Prison Maze is a prison[1].

Body

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for HM Prison Maze include Anti H-Block[17], a political party[18], in Ireland[19], founded in 1981[20].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Anti H-Block[17], a political party[18], in Ireland[19], founded in 1981[20].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Placenames Database of Ireland. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fr', 'ga', 'gl', 'it', 'ko', 'lv', 'no', 'pl', '
    GND ID → 4138825-2
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 18w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1971-08-09T00:00:00Z
    Operator → Northern Ireland Prison Service
    Coordinates → —
    Dissolved → —
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Atlas Obscura place ID: hm-prison-maze-long-kesh"
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