Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CLARE, BALLYVAUGHAN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST (RC)

Name: MORAN, MICHAEL BROPHY
Building: CO. CLARE, BALLYVAUGHAN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST (RC)
Date: 1858-1860;1866
Nature: Early Gothic, with turret and spire and triple lancet at W. end. For Very Rev. P.J. Ryder, PP. Tenders invited, Feb 1858.  FS laid 30 May 1858. In progress, Mar 1858. Probable cost: £2,500. Damaged by storms in 1862 and 1863.  Rebuilt by Rev. F. Forde, 1866.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 30 Jan,23,25,27 Feb 1858; B 16, 27 Mar,24 Apr 1858, 214,280; DB 1, 1 Jan 1859, 8; design exh. RHA 1860 (no. 497) and at Dublin Exhibition of Art and Art Manufactures, 1861 (see DB 3, 15 Jul 1861, 565);  Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 32-33(illus.).