Other debtor's prisons in Dublin which shared the name were the Four Courts Marshalsea, and the Marshalseas of Saint Sepulchre (abolished 1856[2]) and of Thomas Court and Donore (abolished 1826[3]).
[5] It was run privately for profit; John Thomas Gilbert wrote that "the passers-by were incessantly assailed by the cries of the inmates soliciting charity for their maintenance, or the discharge of their fees".
[7] In 1836 the Royal Commission on the Poorer Classes in Ireland said the common hall was "a disgrace to the city".
[8] The first City Marshalsea was built in 1704 on Merchants' Quay, between Skipper's Lane and Swan Alley.
[1] The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 abolished the power of arrest from the Court of Conscience and Lord Mayor's Court, so that no new prisoners were committed to the City Marshalsea.