Welcome to our new website ... here you will find all you need to know about our bar, including the history of the bar and premises. Until the present Court House was erected at North end of the Mall in 1809. Justice was dispensed in the Sessions house situated in Market Street facing the Market House.
It was apparently built by 1615 as its mentioned as the meeting place of an inquisition commissioned a year earlier.
The Armagh historian James Stuart in his "Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh" published in Newry in 1819 described the old Goal under it as, "A dismal suite of subterraneous apartments, directly under the sessions house. A flight of stone stairs led down to these gloomy caverns, where debtors and felons suffered a kind of semi-inhumation, the wards of this doleful dungeon were not only arched over with heavy and solid mason-work abutted in front and rear walls of seven feet thickness, but encircled and completely secured with a kind of massy reticulated iron work", that is a strong iron fence.