Last weekend we had a very interesting visitor to the jail. Whilst on holiday in Ireland American Patti Hawkins discovered that her grandfather Arthur Jones had worked as a prison warden at Sligo Gaol. He had joined the prison service working in Mountjoy Prison, after serving in the army during World War 1. On a visit to Mountjoy the archivist there confirmed that Arthur had been transferred to Sligo Gaol in 1925. It was a pleasure to show Patti and husband Dwight around th

Friends of Sligo Gaol have been successful in our application for this years much sought after Heritage Council grant. We have received €9,000 to conserve the original timber windows on the top floor of the three storey cell block of Sligo Gaol. The 11 windows will be conserved to their original specification without modernisation. This is wonderful news for the ongoing conservation of the building and will mean that this area of the jail will be fully weatherproof and so pro