The site he selected, on the north side of The Square, was occupied by an old market hall and toll house which was in a dilapidated condition.

[2] After Wrixon-Becher reluctantly abandoned some restrictions on political use that he had sought to impose, the town commissioners purchased the building in 1866.

[6] A statue commemorating local people who had died in one of the republican uprisings, sculpted by John Maguire and entitled the "Maid of Erin", was erected just to the south of the town hall and unveiled by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in 1904.

[3] A plaque intended to commemorate the life of the locally-born politician Gearóid O'Sullivan, who raised the Irish Flag over the General Post Office in Dublin during the Easter Rising, was installed on the front of the town hall to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1966.

[12] A new glass-fronted entrance foyer, intended to improve access, was erected by local contractors, Cahalane Brothers, on the south side of the town hall in autumn 2023.