Sheriffs (Ireland) Act, 1817

After attachment for not accounting, sheriff shall pay interest for all money remaining unpaid by him. After attachment for nonpayment, sheriff shall pay double interest.

5. From and after the time when any attachment shall be sealed in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland against any sheriff or person who shall have been sheriff for not accounting, such sheriff shall be chargeable and charged with and shall pay legal interest on all and every sum and sums of public money with which he shall be chargeable, so long as such sum or sums shall remain unpaid; and from and after the time when any attachment shall be actually sealed in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland against any sheriff or person who shall have been sheriff for the non-payment of any sum of public money, such sheriff shall be chargeable and charged with and shall pay double the ordinary legal interest on such sum, until the payment of such sum; and the payment of all such interest and double interest shall be enforced in the same manner as the payment of the principal sum in respect whereof such interest or double interest shall be payable as aforesaid.