The courthouse was not completed until 1835. The jail was designed to accommodate 120 prisoners and had double that number during the Famine years of the late 1840s. It was well run on reform lines but Victorian prisons were tough places
Sir John Moore of Croghan had a formal grant of the lands of Tullamore including Charleville under a patent of James I, probably about 1619–20 as part of the distribution of some of the lands of the O’Molloys of Fir Ceall under the plantation of James I
‘Awful and melancholy Loss of life and property’. Lettybrook school patron in Kinnitty killed'
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![Who is it that has not heard of the celebrated Tullamoore Shilling – a copper token, about the size of a penny, issued in 1802, by the late Earl of Charleville [died 1835] for payment of the workmen then engaged in erecting Charleville Castle. It bears on one side the Charleville Arms, within “Charleville Forest” and “Industry shall prosper, 1802.” On the reverse it is inscribed, “One Shilling and on Penny”, payable at Tullamoore first Tuesday in each month.” [Thomas Cooke, 1846]](https://www.offalyexpress.ie/jpim-static/image/2026/05/29/9/42/Charleville-token-1802-(2)-Copy.jpeg?trim=0,0,0,0&crop=&quality=70&width=1000)
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