Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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494-5; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 216-218.fig. 28,ill.39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Refs: J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, citing Londonderry Journal, 17 Oct 1881