Rare IRA jail paintings in Co Cork to be preserved 

Old Bridewell jail in Kanturk to be converted into museum and cultural centre in €6m project

Volunteer Patrick Cronin from Millstreet added his signature to the wall of Bridewell jail. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Plans for a €6m project to convert a former courthouse and jail, with "extremely rare and irreplaceable War of Independence and Civil War prisoners’ drawings", into a museum, cultural/arts centre and a remote working hub are being progressed.

Drawings made by IRA prisoners more than a century ago were discovered when plaster started falling off the walls at the old Bridewell jail next to the former courthouse in Kanturk, Co Cork.