Carrickfergus Borough Council Town Hall

The site selected for the town hall had previously been occupied by a Franciscan friary, which was established in 1248 but disestablished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1540s. The site was then occupied by a manor house known as Joymount, which was commissioned by the then Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Chichester, in 1618. decided to procure a new courthouse for the county and the old manor house was demolished in 1768 to make way for the new building. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto the street; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a doorway flanked by Doric order columns supporting an…