Tralee Courthouse, Judicial building in Ashe Street, Tralee, Ireland
Tralee Courthouse is a judicial facility on Ashe Street, built in ashlar stone to a neoclassical design by William Vitruvius Morrison and completed in 1834. Its symmetrical front faces the street, with a flight of steps rising to a hexastyle portico of Ionic columns carrying an entablature and pediment.
William Vitruvius Morrison designed this courthouse in 1834 for Kerry's judicial needs. The building later served as a meeting venue for Kerry County Council until 1910.
Two historical cannons from the Crimean War and Indian Rebellion stand on the courthouse steps as memorials to fallen Kerrymen.
The building is easy to access from the street with its open frontage and wide stone steps. Keep in mind this is an active courthouse, so access to interior spaces may be limited.
The two cannons on the steps were taken as war trophies in the Crimean War (1854–56) and the Indian Rebellion (1857) and brought back to Ireland. They were mounted at the courthouse as memorials to Kerrymen who died in those campaigns.
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