Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, GAOL ROAD, COUNTY GAOL

Name: HARDWICK, THOMAS #
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, GAOL ROAD, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1802;1808-9
Nature: 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)
Refs: 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)

Name: BEHAN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, GAOL ROAD, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1808-1809
Nature: JB contractor for same, including chapel.
Refs: NA/PRO Bolger MS. 1A/58/128

Name: ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, GAOL ROAD, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1862p
Nature: Alterations; adaptation to the separate system of confinement. Plans prepared by SUR.
Refs: B 17, 17 Sep 1859, 615; DB 4, 1 Apr 1862, 73; plan of city and county gaols, signed by SR and dated May 1866 in Galway Public Library, see M. Kavanagh, Bibliography of Co. Galway, 150.