Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1820ca
Nature: New prison, built at cost of £16,000.
Refs: 4th Report of the Association for the Improvement of Prisons in Ireland (1822); survey plans by E.T. Owen, 1880, in NA, OPW drawings collection, old. ref. E.12.2

Name: FITZGERALD, MICHAEL
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1826
Nature: Minor works at same.
Refs: Co. Clare Grand Jury Presentments, 1826 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: DOYLE FAMILY *
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1827ca
Nature: Protective ironwork.
Refs: Co. Clare Grand Juury Presentments, Spring 1827 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1828
Nature: Additions, (i.e. 'detached prisons for females and debtors, lately erected in front' as described by Lewis?)
Refs: E.McP, citing Clare Grand Jury Presentments 1828; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 601

Name: BOYD, JAMES [1]
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1838
Nature: JB prepared plans for
Refs: Co. Clare Grand Jury Presentments, Spring 1838

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: ?
Nature: Letters from RM re Ennis Gaol in Vesey Fitzgerald MSS.
Refs: NLI, Vesey Fitzgerald papers, MS 7823, p.267 (information from Anthony Malcomson) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)