Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Galway, active in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.  'Mr Fahy' of Middle Abbey Street, Galway, is described as an 'eminent' architect by Hely Dutton in his Statistical and Agricultural Survey of the County of Galway (1824),(1) while Richard Fahy is listed as an architect in Back Street, Galway, in Pigot & Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824).(2)   Richard Fahy was one of the architects who submitted plans for the new grammar school in Galway, circa 1807,(3) but RICHARD MORRISON' RICHARD MORRISON' s designs were chosen instead. In 1813 he was paid five guineas for laying out a plan of the ground in College Street, Galway, on which the new school was to be built.(4) He provided plans for farm buildings for Robert J. ffrench at Rahasane, Co. Galway, in 1812-1813(5) and was paid £26-11s-7d for work at Kilcolgan Castle, Co. Galway, for Christopher St George in December 1815.(6)   He also reroofed and reslated Kilcolgan Church of Ireland church, and erected new pews inside(5) and designed the St George family mausoleum attached to the mediaeval church of St Sourney.

Addresses:  Middle Abbey Street, Galway, 1824a; Back Street, Galway, 1824.

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(1) p. 212.
(2) p. 206.
(3) Signed undated drawings in Erasmus Smith Schools archive, Danum, Zion Rd, Rathgar, Dublin.
(4) No. 3 Registry Book of the Governors of Erasmus Smith Schools (1793-1822).
(5) Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 146n77.
(6) McCarthy & Mulligan, op. cit., 124.
(5) RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).


6 work entries listed in chronological order for FAHY, RICHARD


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Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, COLLEGE ROAD, GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Date: 1807?
Nature: Submits plan for same. Not executed.
Refs: Signed, undated elevation and plans in Erasmus Smith Schools archive, Danum, Zion Road, Rathgar, Dublin

Building: CO. GALWAY, RAHASANE
Date: 1812-13
Nature: RF prepares estimates and plans for office and farm buildings for Robert J. ffrench.
Refs: Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 130,146n77

Building: CO. GALWAY, ARDRAHAN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1812a
Nature: 'Mr Fahy' paid balance of £33.3s.2d., 1812, for works apparently related to construction of steeple. (Lewis writes: 'The church was erected about 30 years since, by aid of a loan from the late Board of First Fruits, but was so indifferently built as to require a new roof...'.)
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane);  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 56. 

Building: CO. GALWAY, KILCOLGAN CASTLE
Date: 1815
Nature: Payment of £26-1s-7d to RF by Christopher St George for unspecified works at same.
Refs: Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan 'Unfulfilled mediocrity: the hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 10 (2007), 124

Building: CO. GALWAY, KILCOLGAN, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1819-21
Nature: 'Mr Rich. Fahy, Architect' paid £83.4s.5d, 1819, as 'one third part of his contract for new roofing and reslating the church and for erecting new pews therein'. Second and third payments made in 1820 and 1821.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Building: CO. GALWAY, KILCOLGAN, ST GEORGE MAUSOLEUM
Date: 1830
Nature: Gothic mausoleum attached to ruin of mediaeval church of St Sourney. Plaque over entrance inscribed 'This cemetery was erected on the site of an ancient family one by Arthur F. St George of Tyrone, Esq., in memory of the Right Honourable Lady Harriet St George, his wife, 7 August 1830. R. Fahy, Architect.'
Refs: Information from Frank Keohane, Mar 2010;  illus. in Maurice Craig & Michael Craig, Mausolea Hibernica (Dublin, 1999), p. 103.