Selected: CO. LEITRIM, CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, COUNTY GAOL
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. LEITRIM, CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, COUNTY GAOL |
Date: | 1813a;1823a |
Nature: | New prison, described by James Hall in 1813 as 'one of the most splendid buildings in the town' with 'the drops, the pulleys, the spikes on which to put men's heads etc., painted blue'. Polygonal (Lewis). Addition completed by 1823. |
Refs: | Rev. James Hall, Tour through Ireland (1813), ?; letters from Robert Robinson, Board of Works, and Francis Johnston re alterations to gaol, May 1820, in NA/CSO/RP/1051; 4th Report of the Association for the Improvement of Prisons in Ireland (1822), ?;Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 276 |