Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1729
Nature: New slated church replacing one destroyed by fire in 1727.
Refs: Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 128;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 77.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1766
Nature: New church consisting of nave and N transept, erected  for Father Daniel O'Brien, PP, following partial collapse of earlier church on site. S transept added and N transept heightened to form T-plan structure, 1809. for Dr Florence MacCarthy, PP.
Refs: 'Ordnance Survey, Cork City' (B. of I.); J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; JCHAS (1943), 27;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 78-79.

Name: HEFFERNAN, JAMES *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1808?
Nature: Monument to Bishop Florence McCarthy.(JCHAS says he died in 1810). Depicts Death about to strike the Bishop as he administers Last Sacrament ('The Shaft of Death')..
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 470; JCHAS (1951), 15; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 48;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 78-79(illus.).

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1832
Nature: Statue of Dead Christ beneath high altar.
Refs: John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 167-8

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1866
Nature: Extension of sanctuary by 30 feet for Dean Dominick Murphy, PP.
Refs: Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 79-80.

Name: MCMULLEN, JAMES FINBARRE [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1914
Nature: Memorial Celtic cross to Canon Daniel McNamara, PP, (in church? or in a cemetery?)
Refs: IB 56, 10 Oct 1914, 577

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, DUNBAR STREET, ST FINBARR'S CHURCH (RC, SOUTH PARISH)
Date: 1958-59
Nature: Alterations & additions. Reconstruction of interior.
Refs: IB 100, 19 Apr 1958, 285; 101, 21 Feb 1959, 115