Name: |
HARDWICK, THOMAS # |
Building: |
CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, GAOL ROAD, COUNTY GAOL |
Date: |
1802;1808-9 |
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Act for building new gaol passed in 1 Apr 1802. Site acquired on Nuns' Island for £664.7s.6d. Designed by Hardwick and carried out under supervision of Richard Morrison in 1808-9. Opened Dec 1810. APSD says design based on William Blackburn's Gloucester County Gaol. (D.A. Beaufort Journal 1808 (p.88) says that both county and city gaols were designed by Richard Morrison. 'The plan is said to have been taken from York gaol, but greatly improved by Mr Morrison, whose great taste is well known in this county; it was entirely finished under his inspection and cost about £27,000.' (Dutton)
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RA 1803, No. 895: 'A design for a gaol to be built in Ireland'; James Hardiman, History of the town and county of …Galway (1820), 300,302-3; Hely Dutton, A Statistical and agricultural survey of the county of Galway (1824), ? (Section 11); APSD 14, H, 21; J; The Mantle I (1958)
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