1824 – Derry Gaol, Co. Derry
The fourth gaol constructed in Derry, it opened in 1824, and closed in 1953,
The fourth gaol constructed in Derry, it opened in 1824, and closed in 1953,
According to Lewis, “The county gaol, completed in 1824, and situated on an eminence near the entrance to the town,
Now the entrance to a factory,
Now obscured by more modern security measures,
The former Castlebar prison was constructed between 1829 and 1834 at a cost of £23,000.
The smallest of Dublin’s Victorian prisons,
The most striking element of the Old County Gaol is the curiously flat almost cardboard cut outcut-like entrance constructed in 1846.
Mountjoy was designed by Captain Joshua Jebb of the Royal Engineers and opened in 1850.
Designed as the County Gaol by John Neville,