Letter from Robert Gourlay to Charles Arthur Munro, 22 November 1915 Letters 1916-1923 Robert Gourlay

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Letter from Robert Gourlay, foreman of works at Mountjoy Prison, to the prison Governor, Charles Arthur Munro (1869 - 1952) concerning a collapsed wall. This letter is part of a series of correspondence regarding the collapse of a shared wall between the neighbouring laundry and prison. According to the foreman the clay used to construct the wall was of poor quality and the prison's ivy had little to do with it's collapse.Charles Arthur Munro was the governor of Mountjoy prison in Dublin. He is also the brother of the noted author H.H. Munro, better known through his literary pseudonym, Saki.

 National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers, CSO RP/1916/2892/3 https://letters1916.ie/item/789 English Robert Gourlay 1915-11-22T00:00:00 Charles Arthur Munro Industry and Public Administration Industry and Public Administration

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 Mountjoy Prison 22.11.15 With reference to a communication dated 18th inst. received from the N.C. Laundry re wall blown down I beg to report that I made a thorough examination of the site and noticed a considerable quantity of clay and rubbish on the Laundry side where it had evidently been dumped and lain there for a long time. I particularly noticed that the mortar used for building the wall was of a very poor quality and that there was no thorough bond, the wall is 2 feet thick and was built one stone each side and filled in the centre with small stone chippings and mortar. I pointed all this out to the Laundry Manager. That portion of the wall which fell was the most exposed, the remainder being sheltered by the Laundry Buildings. A part of the wall is still standing against which the greater bulk of the (2) the ivy is growing a fact which tends to show that the ivy was not responsible for the fall of the wall taking all these conditions into account I am strongly of opinion that the exceptionally heavy rains of late falling on the bank of earth against the wall which fell all of a piece at that spot and the terrific storm on the night of the 12th inst following as it did in repeated gusts from the Laundry side was too much for a badly built old wall to stand against. R. Gourlay Foreman of Works The Governor Robert Gourlay Letter from Robert Gourlay to Charles Arthur Munro, 22 November 1915 Charles Arthur Munro Letter from Charles Arthur Munro to the North Circular Laundry Ltd., 10 December 1915Letter from Charles Arthur Munro to North Circular Laundry, 17 November 1915.Letter from North Circular Laundry to Charles Arthur Munro, 16 December 1915.Letter from Robert Gourlay to Charles Arthur Munro, 22 November 1915Letter from Charles Arthur Munro to Mabel FitzGerald, 22 February 1916Letter from Charles Arthur Munro to Mabel FitzGerald, 21 March 1916Letter from Charles Arthur Munro to Mabel FitzGerald, 24 March 1916Letter from the Charles Arthur Munro, the Governor of Mountjoy Prison, to Mabel FitzGerald, 5 June 1916.Letter from Charles Arthur Munro to Mabel FitzGerald, 24 November 1915Letter from North Circular Laundry to Charles Arthur Munro, 18 November 1915Letter from North Circular Laundry Co. to Charles Munro, 2 June 1916Letter from Charles Munro to North Circular Laundry Co., 31 May 1916