Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COLLEGE ROAD, ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COLLEGE ROAD, ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE
Date: 1836-39;1847-49
Nature: New seminary. FS laid 24 Oct 1836. East wing completed by Sep 1838. West wing completed 1839. Central block built 1847-49.  Designs exh. RA 1847 and RHA 1849 (described as 'now erecting').
Refs: Designs for 'Intended college at Kilkenny' by WDB in St Kieran's College (digital photographs of drawings before conservation in IAA, Acc. 2007/7 Catholic Directory (1836), 271; RA 1847, no. 1234; RHA 1849, no. 447; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 322 (gives date as 1836-39);  St Patrick's Kilkenny: Gravestone Inscriptions with historical notes on the parish (Kilkenny Archaeological Society, n.d.),79-80.

Name: ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COLLEGE ROAD, ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE
Date: 1877a
Nature: Addition of 'Moran' wing; also steps leading to cloisters on E wing. Work completed 1877. For Bishop Patrick Francis Moran.
Refs: St Patrick's Kilkenny: Gravestone Inscriptions with historical notes on the parish (Kilkenny Archaeological Society, n.d.), 80

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COLLEGE ROAD, ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE
Date: 1905-7
Nature: Large additions ('Doody' wing). Tenders invited Feb 1905. Patent glazing by Helliwell & Co., of Brighouse, Yorkshire, and 17 Nassau St, Dublin.
Refs: IB 47, 11 Feb 1905, 98; 48, 25 Aug,22 Sep 1906, 690,781; 49, 5 Oct 1907, 694; B 88, 18 Feb 1905, ?

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COLLEGE ROAD, ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE
Date: 1925;1931;1933-34
Nature: Cubicles; extensions (new wing); additions. Builder: Cullen?
Refs: Undated designs in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142;  drawings in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access);   IB 67, ? ? 1925, 650; 73, ? ? 1931, 418,806; 75, ? ? 1933, 737;  St Patrick's, Kilkenny: gravestone inscriptions (Kilkenny Archaeological Society, n.d.),81

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COLLEGE ROAD, ST KIERAN'S COLLEGE
Date: 1958
Nature: Addition of 'Collier' wing.
Refs: IB 97, 31 Dec 1955, 1343;  St Patrick's, Kilkenny: gravestone inscriptions (Kilkenny Archaeological Society, n.d.), 81