Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, BALLYKELLY, CHURCH OF ST FINDLUGANUS (CI, TAMLAGHT FIN

Name: MITCHELL, JOHN
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYKELLY, CHURCH OF ST FINDLUGANUS (CI, TAMLAGHT FIN
Date: 1790
Nature: JM 'directing architect'; plan supplied by Lord Bristol, 'its being an exact imitation of a church on his estate in England'.
Refs: A. Day, P. McWilliams & Nóirín Dobson, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 25 (Parishes of Co. Londonderry VII), 69; see also Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 121, and James Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-1914 (1986), 239,241(illus.); Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 69(illus.; church also illustrated on cover).

Name: SHANAHAN, MICHAEL [1]
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYKELLY, CHURCH OF ST FINDLUGANUS (CI, TAMLAGHT FIN
Date: 1793a
Nature: MS supplies plan. Building supervised by James Mitchell.
Refs: P. Rankin, Irish Building Ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 40-42(illus.); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 121; James Stevens Curl, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609-1914 (1986), Pl. 154; Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 69(illus.; church also illustrated on cover);  exterior also illus. in Clergy of Derry & Raphoe (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1999), 99, and Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 170.

Name: WELLAND, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYKELLY, CHURCH OF ST FINDLUGANUS (CI, TAMLAGHT FIN
Date: 1859p
Nature: To be enlarged by addition of north aisle.
Refs: Drawing(s) signed J. Welland & Son, Nov 1859 in RCB Library, portfolio 10A; DB 1, 1 Dec 1859, 165; Simon Walker, Historic Ulster Churches (Institute of Irish Studies, 2000), 69