OUR HISTORY

HISTORY (Extracts from various publications)

You are now at the Town Hall, built 1889 at a cost of £2,000 on the site of the old turf-market to the design of R.P. GIll ('Bertie'), Town Surveyor and Nationalist politician who just failed to follow his brother T.P into Parliament.
The extension to the right and at the far end, of the 1960s vintage, hardly complements Bertie's taste.
The surrounding railings are a J. & C. McLoughlin fabrication and cost £200.1.0d in 1902.
Note the brackets for the long-gone gas lamps on the gate piers, and the acorns and oak leaves cut in stone as capitals to the columns in the doorway. The Town Hall includes a theatre seating 300 and a library.

    'Extract from 'Nenagh Tourist Trail'

Nenagh had its first local government since the time of the Butler Manor, when the Town Commissioners were set up in 1858 pursuant to the Towns Improvement Act of 1854. Following the Local Government Act, 1898, the Urban District Council was established in April 1900.
The Town Hall was built in 1889 at a cost of £2,000, the architect being R.P. Gill, C.E. Improvement work to the Town Hall was carried out at the end of 1960 at a total cost of £4,200.
 
  'Extract from 'Nenagh - Official Guide'

Nenagh's Town Hall before its neighbour, the Presbyterian Church (now the Motor Taxation office), was erected in 1906. The Town Hall was completed in 1889 by local builder Michael Grace, Bachelor's Walk, to a design by Robert P. Gill, CE. It had accommodation for the Town Clerk and staff, a council chamber, a 300-seat theatre and a meeting room.
  'Extract from 'Nenagh Yesterday'