Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYMORE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, CLONDEHORKY PARISH)

Name: PRIESTLEY, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYMORE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, CLONDEHORKY PARISH)
Date: 1752
Nature: Attr. to MP by Brett and, less categorically, by Rowan.
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Roger Mulholland: Architect, of Belfast, 1740-1818 (UAHS, 1976), 4; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 45,123-4; Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), Pt. 1, 118(illus.); Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 54(illus.);  exterior also illus. in ;  exterior also illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 171.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYMORE, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI, CLONDEHORKY PARISH)
Date: 1853
Nature: Addition of single-storey vestry to N; advancing of pulpit and reading desk towards nave.
Refs: Drawing(s), signed and dated 1853, in RCN library, portfolio 25; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 123-4; Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 54