Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1780
Nature: 9-bay main block (5 bays added to N. end in 1819).
Refs: R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 141;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 123-4.

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1816
Nature: Plans (for adds?) by JB
Refs: NA/SPO 563/462/21

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1819
Nature: '...Francis Johnston is supposed to have made alterations and additions to what was considered to be a bad plan'.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 123.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1821-22
Nature: '…a considerable addition has been made to it during the last twelve months…the plan was originally bad, and no alteration can make it good' (Thomas Reid in Jun 1822).
Refs: Thomas Reid, Travels in Ireland in the year 1822 (1923), 165

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1828
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting wall round additional graound.
Refs: Newry Telegraph, 22 Feb 1828

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1837-1848
Nature: Enlargement and alterations. Tenders invited Jan 1845. Contractor: Cherry, Loughgall.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 19-54 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 48-53,55; 2 of these drawings exh. Architecture of Ireland (1975), nos. 70 & 71); Armagh Guardian, 14 Jan,11 Feb,4 Mar,3,24 Jun,15 Jul 1845;  A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 149-53(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 124.

Name: BOYD, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, GAOL SQUARE, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1852-1853;1864-1866
Nature: In 1852-53 new female wing, to cost about £2,700. Tenders invited, Feb 1853.  Contractor: Ross & McCullough.  Tenders invited for improvement to entrance of new wing, Mar 1856.  Further works in 1864-66, viz. remodelling of front facing Mall including insertion of large modern sashes, addition of parapet, removal of 'hateful' gallows, new roof and chimneys, conversion of right wing into governor's residence. Contractor: Thomas Ross, Armagh. Cost about £1,800.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 20 Mar,10 Jul 1852, 12 Feb,25 Mar 1853, 28 Mar 1856, 2 Sep 1864, 20 Apr 1866;  B 10, 3 Apr,3 Jul 1852, 219,421; 11, 9 Apr,30 Jul 1853, 235,484; DB 7, 1 Jul 1865, 170; 8, 15 Apr 1866, 106;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 124.