Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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