Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CONVENT ROAD, URSULINE CONVENT

Name: RIORDAN, MICHAEL AUGUSTINE (REV.)
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK, CONVENT ROAD, URSULINE CONVENT
Date: 1824-1825
Nature: Addition of 2 3-storey wings and chapel to convent (of c.1810). FS laid 8 Jun 1824. (Attached Industrial School opened during famine in1847)
Refs: F.H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork remembranced (1837), 214; T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 157; Cork Almanac (1888)