Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, COUNTY GAOL

Name: WILSON, ALEXANDER [2]
Building: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1815-19
Nature: Adds. to rear, consisting chapel, infirmary, judges' retiring room, bath, gaoler's lodge, guard room, execution room. FS laid 1815. Finished 1 Nov 1819 at cost of nearly £16,000. New wings criticised by Thomas Reid as being too small ''for the number it is necessary tgo crowd into it' and as having cell windows which are 'far too small'.
Refs: Thomas Reid, Twavels in Ireland in the year 1822 (1823), 173; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 29.

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, COUNTY GAOL
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed additions.
Refs: Undated booklet of plans and elevations of additions to County Antrim Gaol at Carrickfergus in PRONI, LA/1/8/JA/109 (see PRONI e-catalogue).