Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL

Name: BEHAN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1814
Nature: Designs rejected in favour of Richard Morrison's
Refs: NA/SPO 558/423/32

Name: GAVEN, DANIEL
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1814
Nature: Prepares plans with John Behan, but those of Richard Morrison preferred.
Refs: NA/SPO 558/423/32 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).

Name: COLBOURNE, THOMAS
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1814-1817
Nature: TC and Richard Richards submit unselected design but are appointed contractors instead.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed, The Architecture of Richard and William Morrison (1989), 148-9

Name: RICHARDS, RICHARD
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1814-1817
Nature: Thomas Colbourne and Richard Richards submit unselected design but are appointed contractors instead.
Refs: Minutes of Commissioners for General Control…and for Superintending…the erection…of asylums for the lunatic poor, 15 Dec 1817 (information from Brendan O'Donoghue); A.M. Rowan, ed, The Architecture of Richard and William Morrison (IAA, 1989), 148-9

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1814-1817
Nature: New gaol on radiating plan, based on Thomas Hardwick's design for Galway county gaol.  Replaced gaol of 1797.   In process of erection, Dec 1817.  Contractors: Thomas Colbourne and Richard Richards.
Refs: Minutes of Commissioners for General Control...and for Superintending...the erection...of asylums for the lunatic poor, 15 Dec 1817 (B.O'D.);  A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 148-9.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROSCOMMON, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1853
Nature: Tenders being invited for erecting addition on female side.
Refs: B 11, 10 Sep 1853, 584