[1] The site they selected, on the east side of Banba Square facing Nenagh Courthouse, had been occupied by the local turf market.

[2] The new building was designed by the town surveyor, Robert Paul Gill, (father of Tomás Mac Giolla), in the Italianate style, built by Michael Grace in rubble masonry at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1889.

The left hand-bay featured a round headed doorway with an archivolt mounted on columns, and a semi-circular plaque, inscribed with the words "Town Hall A.D. 1889", installed in place of a fanlight.

[6] During the First World War, the town hall was one of a series of venues where a recruiting officer from the Royal Flying Corps, Lieutenant Charles Alston, gave a lecture about life on the Western Front using lantern slides.

[11] A major programme of refurbishment works, intended to create a new a 194-seat theatre, was subsequently implemented.