What lies beneath: Pressure on to preserve drawings in Cork town's courthouse

Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle often sat in the courthouse as an official scrutinising judicial proceedings

One of the drawings on the walls of the prison cells in the old Kanturk courthouse. Pictures: Eddie O'Hare

Sheila O’Keeffe has yet to see first-hand the series of drawings etched on the walls of the Bridewell Gaol in Kanturk or know if her late father was one of the IRA prisoners responsible for them.

The Limerick woman is hopeful that artwork by her father, Dan Guiney, from Kiskeam, will eventually be uncovered, but even if no drawings by him are found, she’s adamant that this unique piece of history is properly preserved for future generations.