Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BANTRY, CHURCH OF ST FINBAR (RC)

Name: RIORDAN, MICHAEL AUGUSTINE (REV.)
Building: CO. CORK, BANTRY, CHURCH OF ST FINBAR (RC)
Date: 1832ca
Nature: 'large RC chapel erected at an expense of £2500' (Lewis); grant of £500 from Board of Works, 1847c, to Rev. Thomas Barry for enlargement.
Refs: S. Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 233; 15th Annual Report of the Board of Public Works in Ireland (1847), 26; J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; Rev. James Coombes, 'Catholic Churches of the Nineteenth Century: some newspaper sources', JCHAS 81 (Part 1, Jan-Jun 1975), 4,7; T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 158

Name: MURPHY, SEAMUS *
Building: CO. CORK, BANTRY, CHURCH OF ST FINBAR (RC)
Date: 1934
Nature: Statues of St Finbarr & St Ita in niches on W front.
Refs: Peter Murray, ed., Séamus Murphy (1907-1975) Sculptor (Crawford Art Gallery & Gandon Editions, 2007), 71-73(illus.)