Westbank Orphanage

It moved from Harold's Cross in Dublin to Wicklow in the late 1940s, and began to accept boys as well as girls.

[2] While it attempted to find homes for some children with Protestant families, many were retained as helpers and as a means of raising funds.

Former residents of the Westbank Orphanage, Greystones and Ovoca House in Wicklow, demanded inclusion in the Irish Government's 2002 redress scheme, and an apology.

After broadcast of abuse allegations in the RTE documentary, 'Aunties Family Secrets' (5 June 2011), Westbank administrators demanded return of the records.

201 Harolds Cross, in the house where the Quaker, the famous slavery abolitionist Richard Allen was born, in the home of his parents, a large red brick building dating from the mid-18th century.