Enniskillen Courthouse

The East Bridge Street site had previously been occupied by a gaol which had been built on the initiative of a Captain Cole who secured permission to proceed with the development in May 1613. The design also involved a sessions house which was built on piers over the gaol which was itself constructed in a vault below ground. After a new gaol had been built in Gaol Square to a design by Sir Richard Morrison in 1815, the East Bridge Street gaol became redundant and so the structure was altered to the designs of William Farrell in the Neoclassical style in 1822. The building was originally used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government…