Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY GAOL

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1812
Nature: New gaol. with octangular governor's house at centre, three radiating wings. Plan similar to Enniskillen gaol but with longer wings and semi-circular chapel at back.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 170(illus.)

Name: MITCHELL, JOHN
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1873
Nature: Internal alts. to adapt it to the separate system and remodelling of governor's house.
Refs: Drawing(s), dated 1873, in NA, OPW drawings collection; IB 15, 1 Jul 1873, advertisement for tenders