Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1857-1860
Nature: New church, convent & schools in Decorated Gothic style. Church to consist of nave, sanctuary, side aisles with tower at W end.  Building work in progress by Dec 1858.  Contractor: Bartholomew Sweeny, Tralee. East window completed 1862 by Mssrs. O'Connor.
Refs: B 16, 24 Apr 1858, 280;  Building News, 15 May 1857, 483 (cited by Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 48;  Cork Examiner, 3 Dec 1858 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Mar 2011);  DB 1, 1 Nov 1859, 147; 2, 1 Jun 1860, 265; 4, 15 Oct 1862, 269; RHA 1860, no. 400.

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1857-58
Nature: Proposed addition of chancel with side aisles terminating in chapels, choir for nuns of adjoining Presentation convent on N side, sacristy on S side; new clerestory, tower and spire. Decorated Gothic. Completely new church built instead.
Refs: B 16, 24 Apr 1858, 280; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 48 (citing Building News, 15 May 1857, 483).

Name: O'CONNOR, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1862
Nature: E windows just completed by Mssrs. O'Connor.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Oct 1862, 269

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1862a
Nature: McEnery chantry. Contr: Hardman, Dublin.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Apr 1862, 86

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1902a
Nature: Tower and spire.
Refs: IB 44, 30 Jan 1902, 1018

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: 1951-1958
Nature: Enlargement and renovation. Contractor: Flynn, Millstreet. £35,000.
Refs: IB 92, 9 Dec 1950, 1346; 93, 6 Jan 1951, 36; 100, 1 Jan 1958, 15

Name: KING, RICHARD JOSEPH *
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: Stained glass window, 'Woman clothed in the Sun'.
Refs: Capuchin Annual (1975), 206; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 244