Selected: CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MOUNT ST JOSEPH, CONVENT OF MERCY
Name: | HARTE, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MOUNT ST JOSEPH, CONVENT OF MERCY |
Date: | 1870-71 |
Nature: | New wing for female orphans to be built. Designed by Harte with William Stirling. To cost £1,800. Builder: M.McClelland, Derry. |
Refs: | IB 12, 1 Nov 1870, 256(illus.); IB 13, 1 Apr 1871, 85; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 494 |
Name: | STIRLING, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MOUNT ST JOSEPH, CONVENT OF MERCY |
Date: | 1870-71 |
Nature: | New wing for female orphans to be built. Designed by William Harte with William Stirling. To cost £1,800. Builder: M.McClelland, Derry. |
Refs: | IB 12, 1 Nov 1870, 256(illus.); IB 13, 1 Apr 1871, 85; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 494 |
Name: | O'NEILL & BYRNE |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MOUNT ST JOSEPH, CONVENT OF MERCY |
Date: | 1879-81 |
Nature: | New chapel, for Sisters of Mercy. FS laid on feast day of Sacred Heart, 1879. Consecrated 16 Oct 1881. Contractor:Paul Kane, Bridge St, Strabane. |
Refs: | Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 494-5; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 216-218.fig. 28,ill.39 |
Name: | O'NEILL, WILLIAM PATRICK |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, STRABANE, MOUNT ST JOSEPH, CONVENT OF MERCY |
Date: | 1881a |
Nature: | White marble high altar with 'stately outline and delicate carvings', donated by Mrs Mary Browne. |
Refs: | J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, citing Londonderry Journal, 17 Oct 1881 |