Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prison
Ardnanagh,ballypheasan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardnanagh,ballypheasan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62988, -8.19391
- SMR number
- RO039-043003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A new jail was commissioned in 1814 to replace the 18th century building (RO039-043013-) and had been built by 1824 (Weld 1832, 413-4) to a design by Sir Richard Morrison (1767-1849). The prison was closed in 1886 and partly re-opened in 1887 as an RIC barracks. It was disused from 1921 to 1925 when the Gardaí took it over until 1948 when it was largely demolished. Excavation (03E1245) revealed some walls and surfaces from the prison era (O'Hara 2006)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
O’Hara, R. 2006 Former gaol, Roscommon: 19th century gaol in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 427-8), No. 1598. Bray. Wordwell
References
Weld, I. 1832 Statistical survey of the county Roscommon. Dublin, Royal Dublin Society
O'Hara, R. 2006 Former Gaol, Roscommon. 19th century gaol. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 427-8, No. 1598. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Inscribed slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.