Tralee Courthouse

Tralee Courthouse
Tralee Courthouse
	Tralee Courthouse
	Tralee Courthouse Location within Ireland
General information
Architectural style	Neoclassical style
Address	Tralee, County Kerry
Country	Ireland
Coordinates	52°16′11″N 9°42′13″W / 52.2698°N 9.7035°W
Completed	1834
Design and construction
Architect(s)	William Vitruvius Morrison

Tralee Courthouse is a judicial facility in Ashe Street, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland.

History

The courthouse, which was designed by William Vitruvius Morrison in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1834.^[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Ashe Street; there was a flight of steps leading up to a large hexastyle portico with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment.^[1] Two cannons which had been used in the Crimean War (1854–56) and the Indian Rebellion (1857) were brought back to Ireland and installed on the steps of the courthouse as memorials to those Kerrymen who had died in those campaigns.^[1]

The building was primarily used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, which established county councils in every county, the Grand Jury Room also became the meeting place for Kerry County Council.^[2] However the county council moved to a purpose-built county hall on Godfrey Place in January 1910.^[2] A refurbishment was carried out in the 1980s and the building continues to be used as a judicial facility.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Court House, Tralee, County Kerry". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b Quirke, Michael P (1999). "Centenary of Local Government - Kerry County Council". The Kerry Magazine (10). Tralee: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society: 4–6. ISSN 0085-2503.
^ "Row over Tralee courthouse complex". RTE. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.