Made safe: 100-year-old drawings by IRA prisoners on Cork jail walls 

Impressions of Countess Markievicz and Arthur Griffith were drawn on one wall while some of those interned there also wrote their names and dates of incarceration

There are a number of references on the walls to the famous Sean Moylan who was also incarcerated in the prison cells in the old Kanturk courthouse. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A former jail in North Cork has been secured to prevent further damage to irreplaceable sketches and writings on its walls made by IRA prisoners during the War of Independence.

Some of the pencil drawings and writings were unfortunately lost when the plaster they were on was damaged by rain seeping through the roof of the old Bridewell Jail, part of the former Kanturk Courthouse complex.